Biography of Moses Younkin

 

Excerpted from "Collections of the Kansas State Historical Society, 1911-1912", Edited by Geo. W. Martin, Secretary. 

Vol XII., State Printing Office, Topeka, Kansas 1912.



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Moses Younkin, the man who brought the account of the massacre, was an early settler in Kansas, coming from Pennsylvania.

 He was one of the men who located the town site of Milford, in what is now Geary county, in 1855. He remained there but a 

short time, and in April, 1856, he with his brothers, William and Jerome, located near the mouth of Timber creek, being the 

first white man to settle within the present limits of Clay county. Mrs. Moses Younkin was the first white woman in that 

locality, and their son, Edward L., born December 2, 1858, was the first white child born in the county. -Cutler's History 

of Kansas, 1883. p. 1312.



(Included with article "Some Western Border Conditions in the 50's and 60's", page 3)