What state was the man that Atchison County was named after from?
Atchison County Historical Museum Atchison County Historical Society Museum is a museum dedicated to preserving the history of Atchison County, Kansas. Both the city of Atchison and Atchison County, Kansas are named after United States Senator and legendary "President for a day" David Rice Atchison.
Samuel Sylvester Cobb Samuel S. Cobb, the youngest son of J.B. Cobb and Evaline Clingan, was born on December 12, 1865, in Bradley County, Tennessee, USA. In 1870, Cobb and his family traveled by train to Fort Scott, Kansas, where they loaded up and took a wagon to Tahlequah, Indian Territory, the Cherokee Nation's capital. After about ten months Cobb and his family left Tahlequah and settled southeast of the present day town of Wagoner. At this spot Cobb's father paid $1500 to a Cherokee for a two-room box house, a log barn and a few acres of fenced land. All the land was owned together by the Cherokees and anyone could farm as much they wanted as long as no one's rights were infringed upon. Cobb went to school at home until he was sixteen, then entered the Cherokee Male Seminary, in Tahlequah, Oklahoma, for two years. In 1884 he became a student at the State Agricultural College (now Kansas State University) in Manhattan, Kansas and graduated after four years in 1889.