Editing Greeley, Kansas (section)

==History==
===Early history===
[[Nomad]]ic [[Native Americans in the United States|Native Americans]], perhaps the [[Wichita people|Wichita]] as early as the 1400s and the [[Osage Nation|Osage]] by the 1700s, would have been present in the area for many [[Century|centuries]]. The [[Potawatomi Trail of Death|Trail of Death]] relocated the [[Potawatomi]]e to the area in 1838, and they had established subsistence farming at what would become Greeley prior to the arrival of European-Americans.<ref name="Cutler">{{Cite web|title=Anderson County, Part 6|url=https://www.kancoll.org/books/cutler/anderson/anderson-co-p6.html#GREELEY_P1|access-date=2021-03-24|website=www.kancoll.org}}</ref>

The first European-American settlement at Greeley was made in May 1854 by Valentine Gerth and Francis Myer. Though the town of Greeley had not yet been established, Myer's cabin served as Anderson County's temporary county seat from August 1855 through the county's first Territorial District Court session in April 1856. At that time the county seat moved to its first "permanent" location at what would become the town of Shannon.<ref name="HOACK">[https://archive.org/download/historyofanderso00john/historyofanderso00john.pdf ''The History Of Anderson County, Kansas, From Its First Settlement To The Fourth Of July, 1876''; 1877.]</ref>

Greeley was laid out in December 1856 by several [[Free-Stater (Kansas)|Free Staters]] and named for [[Horace Greeley]].<ref name="HOACK"/> Likely unique among [[American frontier]] towns, the three officers of the original Greeley Town Company were all [[Ashkenazi Jews]]: [[August Bondi]], Jacob Benjamin, and Theodore Wiener (sometimes misspelled Weiner, or even Weimar in later texts).<ref>{{Cite web|title=August Bondi|url=https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/august-bondi|access-date=2021-03-28|website=www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org}}</ref>

The post office was established in May 1857, though not without some controversy.<ref name="KPO">{{Cite web|title=Kansas Post Offices, 1828-1961 - Kansas Historical Society|url=https://www.kshs.org/geog/geog_postoffices/search/county:AN|access-date=2021-03-24|website=www.kshs.org}}</ref> Postal officials in the [[Presidency of James Buchanan|Buchanan Administration]] apparently objected to naming the office after an abolitionist newspaperman, so instead used the name of Buchannan-appointed Territorial Governor [[Robert J. Walker]].<ref name="Cutler"/> The office was called Walker until it relocated to the competing town of Mount Gilead, Kansas in May 1861.<ref name="KPO" /> The postal name Greeley was not used until April 1866 when the Mount Gilead townsite failed and the post office returned to its original location.<ref name="KPO" />

The St. Louis, Kansas and Arizona Railway (a division of the [[Missouri Pacific Railroad|Missouri Pacific]]) reached Greeley in 1879, and today operates as part of the [[Union Pacific Railroad]].<ref>{{Cite web|date=October 25, 1879|title=The St. Louis, Kansas, & A. R.R. Officials|url=https://kansashistoricalopencontent.newspapers.com/image/67812443/|website=Kansas Digital Newspapers|publisher=Garnett Journal}}</ref>

Greeley was incorporated as a city in 1881.<ref>{{cite book | url=https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_o8X5krq3fP8C | title=Kansas: A Cyclopedia of State History, Embracing Events, Institutions, Industries, Counties, Cities, Towns, Prominent Persons, Etc. | publisher=Standard Publishing Company | author=Blackmar, Frank Wilson | year=1912 | pages=[https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_o8X5krq3fP8C/page/n784 788]}}</ref>

===20th century===
In 1901 [[Arizona]] cattle baron Colin Cameron established his midwestern operations just east of Greeley.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Plat book, Anderson County, Kansas - 5 - Kansas Memory|url=https://www.kansasmemory.org/item/209374/page/8|access-date=2021-04-18|website=www.kansasmemory.org}}</ref> Cameron's Fields of Lochiel ranch served as the finishing operation for his [[San Rafael Ranch]] [[Hereford cattle|Herefords]] prior to sale in [[Kansas City, Missouri]].<ref>{{Cite web|date=January 29, 1903|title=The Cameron Cattle Ranch|url=https://kansashistoricalopencontent.newspapers.com/image/81386481/}}</ref>