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Today In Johnson City History: Dec. 17


Dec. 17, 1891: Readers of The Comet learned the results of the 1890 census. According to the report, Johnson City had a population of 4,161. In 1880, the population was 685.
Dec. 17, 1903: The Clay Center Dispatch, a newspaper in Clay Center, Kansas, carried an interesting story with a Johnson City dateline. “Maj. William H. Garland, aged 94 years, is dead at the national soldier’s home here. He had shaken hands with every president of the United States except Washington. He was in the naval cadet company that accompanied Lafayette on the second visit to America in 1822 and he at one time conversed with Napoleon on the island of St. Helena. Maj. Garland’s wife and children were drowned in the Evansville, Ind. flood in 1884. He was for many years a Baptist minister.” ....

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