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EDWARDS County when created contained Township 23 of Ranges 19 and 20; Townships 24, 25 and 26, of Ranges 16, 17, 18, 19 and 20, aggregating seventeen Congressional Townships. Pawnee County was its northern boundary, and also lay east of its two northwestern townships. Stafford and Pratt were on the east; Kiowa on the south; Ford and Hodgeman on the west. The Legislature of 1875 enlarged its territory by taking the north one-half of Kiowa County, and making it the south part of Edwards County; the south one- half of Kiowa became the northern part of Comanche County. The present area of the county is twenty-seven Congressional Townships, embracing 972 miles.₁

Organized in 1874. County seat Kinsley. Named in honor of John H. Edwards, of Ellis, State Senator.₂

1. William G. Cutler's History of the State of Kansas
published in 1883 by A. T. Andreas, Chicago, IL.

2. History of Kansas, Noble Prentis, (Winfield: E.P. Greer. 1899)

Biographies
File Description	File Size	Date	Submitter
Carpenter, Sherman O. 1852 -	3K	Mar 2007	Joy Fisher
History - Directories
Description	File Size	Date	Submitter
Edwards County Medical Directory 1920	2K	Feb 2009	Joy Fisher
Military Records
File Description	File Size	Date	Submitter
1883 List of Pensioners on the Roll	5 kb	Oct 1997	Rosana Whitenight
Obituaries
File Description	File Size	Date	Submitter
Blevins, Otis Raymond 1918	1K	Dec 2007	Joy Fisher

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