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Michael Stubbs of Eskridge, Kansas, a retired film industry location manager with a love of history, painstakingly researched the story of the Connecticut Kansas Colony, as these settlers were known.
This past Monday marked the 159th anniversary of formation of the state of West Virginia. This column focuses on what occurred after Virginia seceded from the Union until April 1862