Kansas
EDUCATION AND SCHOOL
INFORMATION

for
GENEALOGISTS

COLLEGES and UNIVERSITIES
TEACHING INSTITUTES, ETC.

THE LINKS BELOW ARE ARRANGED BY THE INSTITUTION'S COUNTY:

 

STATEWIDE RESOURCES

KANSAS COLLEGES WHICH HAVE CLOSED, MERGED OR CHANGED NAMES (Ray C. Brown)
(Provided by Ray C. Brown, Director, Institutional Research, Westminster College, Fulton, MO.
The directory for all U.S. colleges is found at:
http://www.wcmo.edu/wc_users/homepages/staff/brownr/ClosedCollegeIndex.htm)

CRAWFORD (county seat: Pittsburg)

PITTSBURG STATE UNIVERSITY, Pittsburg

A LIST OF STUDENTS AT KANSAS STATE COLLEGE OF PITTSBURG, 1939 (From The 1939 Kanza yearbook)
(Information includes student's name, class level, academic major, and town)

PITTSBURG STATE UNIVERSITY SPECIAL COLLECTIONS (PSU web site)
(Information on students & faculty as well as information on specials collections on southeast Kansas)

DONIPHAN (county seat: Troy)

HIGHLAND COMMUNITY COLLEGE, Highland

Local government records available on microfilm, Doniphan County (Kansas State Historical Society)
(Microfilmed material that can be borrowed on interlibrary loan. Includes records of Highland University. Proposed charter and the minutes of the board of trustees, 1857-1868; incomplete draft of the Report on the Condition of Highland University, ca. 1860)

DOUGLAS (county seat: Lawrence)

UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS, Lawrence

"ALUMNI NEWS" SECTION OF THE GRADUATE MAGAZINE OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS, 1906-1907 (KSGenWeb Project)
(Information on students gleaned from KU's alumni magazine)

KENNETH SPENCER RESEARCH LIBRARY, UNIVERSITY ARCHIVES (KU web site)
(Information on students & faculty with email for archivists)

ELLIS (county seat: Hays)

FORT HAYS STATE UNIVERSITY, Hays

FORSYTH LIBRARY ARCHIVES/SPECIAL COLLECTIONS/WESTERN ROOM (FHSU web site)
(Information on students & faculty as well as information on the Western Americana & Fort Hays Genealogical Society collection)

STUDENT & FACULTY LISTS FROM 1930 KANSAS STATE TEACHERS COLLEGE YEARBOOK (MHGS web site)

FORD (county seat: Dodge City)

SAINT MARY OF THE PLAINS COLLEGE, Dodge City -- (DEFUNCT)

ST. MARY OF THE PLAINS ALUMNI ASSOCIATION (SMPC Alumni web site)
(The college closed in 1992. The Society maintains some information and there are email and mailing addresses on the site)

LABETTE COUNTY (county seat: Oswego)

OSWEGO COLLEGE -- OSWEGO COLLEGE FOR YOUNG LADIES, Oswego -- (DEFUNCT)

OSWEGO COLLEGE CLASS PHOTO, 1891
(Donated by Erique LaRoche. Can you identify any of these people?)

OSWEGO COLLEGE and OSWEGO COLLEGE FOR LADIES (KSGenWeb Project)
(Information from an online transcription of History of Labette County, Kansas and its Representative Citizens)

LYON (county seat: Emporia)

EMPORIA STATE UNIVERSITY, Emporia

STATE NORMAL SCHOOL DIPLOMAS AWARDED

1883-1889 --- 1890-1893 --- 1894-1895

(Lists of students receiving degress from the institution that later became Emporia State University)

EMPORIA STATE UNIVERSITY ARCHIVES (ESU web site)
(Information on students & faculty with email for archivists)

McPHERSON (county seat: McPherson)

Bethany College, Lindsborg

BETHANY COLLEGE ARCHIVES AND HERITAGE CENTER (Bethany web site)
(The Archives is located in the Wallerstedt Library. This page currently lists contact information only)

RILEY (county seat: Manhattan)

KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY, Manhattan

COLLEGE SYMPOSIUM OF THE KANSAS STATE AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE (KSGenWeb Project)
(An online presentation of an 1891 book on the history of the college with information on alumni and faculty)

INFORMATION ON GRADUATES, K.S.A.C.
(Alumni information from a 1914 book listing Kansas State Agricultural College graduates from the classes of 1867, 1871-1913))

KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY ARCHIVES AND MANUSCRIPT COLLECTION (KSU web site)
(The collection contains information on the history of the school, students and faculty. Includes email address of archivist)

ROOKS (county seat: Stockton)

STOCKTON ACADEMY (STOCKTON NORMAL SCHOOL), Stockton

STOCKTON ACADEMY (KSGenWeb site)
(Transcribed from a chapter on the history of Rooks County schools in the book, Columbian History of Education in Kansas, 1893)

SEDGWICK (county seat: Wichita)

WICHITA STATE UNIVERSITY, Wichita

WSU LIBRARIES SPECIAL COLLECTIONS (WSU web site)
(How to obtain information on former students and faculty. Includes email addresses of archivists)

SHAWNEE (county seat: Topeka)

WASHBURN COLLEGE (now WASHBURN UNIVERSITY), Topeka

WASHBURN COLLEGE (KSGenWeb site)
(Transcribed from a chapter on the history of Shawnee County schools in the book, Columbian History of Education in Kansas, 1893)

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