Kansas Biographical Name Index

Search biographical sketches, obituaries, and other short biographies about Kansas people in various publications owned by the Kansas Historical Society. Currently, the database indexes seven sources. Please remember to continue your search in other KSHS resources both online and in the reference room.

If you find a name you're looking for and want more detailed information from the source, contact our reference staff for the complete text of the entry. Make certain to include the call number, volume number, and page number as applicable.

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NOTE: Spelling of names in this index may vary. Be sure to check under all possible variants.

Sources included in the index:

The History of the State of Kansas. Alfred Thayer Andreas [with William G. Cutler]. Two Volumes. Chicago, A. T. Andreas, 1883. Reprinted in 1976 with an index of names from the fifteen thousand sketches found in the original volumes. Important for early county and community histories. [Library call number Ref./K/978.1/An32]

Kansas Biographical Scrapbooks. These 182 volumes contain biographical clippings of varied sorts of information collected until the early 1900s. [Library call number K/BB/v. _/p. _]

Taps. United Spanish War Veterans. An index to death notices of the members of this fraternal order of Spanish-American War veterans. The death notices may contain service record, wife's name and address, and/or place and date of birth, death and burial. [Library call number SP/369.18/Un3t/p._]

Journal of the Kansas Medical Society. Kansas Medical Society. An index to individuals whose obituaries appear in the journal 1889-1966 and 1981-1983. May include death date, residence, volume, and page. Between 1966-1981 obituries were cataloged into the Kansas card catalog in the KSHS reference room. [Library call number K/610.5/K13/v._/p._]

Kansas State Soldiers' Home Admissions and Military History of Members. c. 1890-1957. The Fort Dodge Soldiers' Home houses qualifying veterans and their families. It is located approximately 5 miles east of Dodge City, Kansas, on Highway 400 (formerly 154). The fort was built in 1865 to replace Fort Mann as a supply post for people and wagon trains traveling the Santa Fe Trail. The fort closed in 1882 and became the State Soldiers Home in 1890. The admission records of the Soldiers' Home usually contain information about their family and military service. Since they may also contain medical information which cannot be released, please fill out and submit our request form by mail to obtain copies from these records. [Archives microfim AR4478-AR4480].

The Purple Pinnacle : the Top 40 Athletes in Kansas State History. David Smale (Shawnee Mission, KS : Rainbow Publishing, [1998]). [Library call number SP/630.7/E/Sm16]

Who was who in America, with World Notables (Chicago : Marquis-Who's who, 1896- ). Only people with Kansas connections are indexed. Selected volumes only: v. 7, (1977-1981), v. 10 (1989-1993), v. 11 (1993-1996), v. 12 (1996-1998), v. 13 (1998-2000). [Library call number Ref./BB/Am3w]

Completion of many of these databases was made possible by volunteers Irene Stillie and Dick & Susie Lindstrom.