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from WikipediaRead it all ↗Hickory Township was organized in 1875. Its early history is retold by J.O. Evertson, an early settler, in Vol. P. Mooney's, History of Butler County Kansas, Standard Publishing Company, 1916.
According to Evertson, the first settler was a man by the name of Myers. He and his two wives settled at the forks of two branches of Hickory Creek. Subsequently, in 1868, J. A. McGinnis and his brother A. F. McGinnis and family established their claims in the township. J.A. Armstrong then arrived and took up Myers claim, compelling him to move on, along with his two wives. Armstrong would establish a general store at a location called Old Brownlow, which since has disappeared with the exception of Brownlow Cemetery which rests on a rise in the hill.
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