Rare Letter on Letterhead from the Kauffman House Hotel in Oakley, Kansas, 1906!

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A hard to find letterhead
from the Kauffman House Hotel in Oakley, Kansas, dated 1906. Letter from Herman Long to Herman Sturtz concerning district court sessions and Sturtz's land holdings in Kansas as well as insurance issues relating to weather conditions, "The St. Paul Insurance Company doesn't insure anything this year... as they claim to have got the worst of it there last year, so I guess we will have to carry our own risk on the wheat."
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The area that would later become Oakley was initially settled in the 1870s and 1880s by travelers from the Smoky Hill Trail. Oakley was founded in 1884 by Judge Fredman and David D. Hoag. Originally named Carlyle, its name was changed to Cleveland, before settling on its final name of Oakley in 1885, named after Hoag's mother, Elizabeth Oakley Gardner Hoag.