Editing Cloud County, Kansas (section)

==Notable people==
[[File:Frankcarlson(r-ks).jpg|thumb|right|Frank Carlson was the 30th Governor of Kansas. He called Concordia his home, and the [[Frank Carlson Library]] is named in his honor.]]
:''See [[List of people from Cloud County, Kansas]]''

[[Charles H. Blosser]] was an aviator who was awarded the Kansas Governor's Aviation Honors Award and was inducted into the Kansas Aviation Hall of Fame in 1990. At one time, he was the oldest living licensed pilot in the United States.<ref name="Wings Over Kansas">{{Cite web |url=http://www.wingsoverkansas.com/profiles/article.asp?id=124#charlesblosser |title=Wings Over Kansas |access-date=March 30, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110930034937/http://www.wingsoverkansas.com/profiles/article.asp?id=124#charlesblosser |archive-date=September 30, 2011 |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.salina.com/news/story/republican-river-flood-of-1935--52610-FOR-MONDAY |publisher=[[Salina Journal]] |access-date=March 28, 2012 |title=Flood of Memories |first=Tim |last=Unruh |date=May 31, 2010 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100704165540/http://www.salina.com/news/story/republican-river-flood-of-1935--52610-FOR-MONDAY |archive-date=July 4, 2010 }}</ref>

[[Napoleon Bonaparte Brown]] was a soldier, businessman, politician, and resident of [[Kansas]] and [[Missouri]] in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.<ref name="loc">{{cite web 
| last = Moran
| first = Jerry
| title = Historic Performing Theatre – The Brown Grand Theatre
| url = http://lcweb2.loc.gov/cocoon/legacies/KS/200003024.html
| publisher = The American Folklife Center at the Library of Congress
| access-date = February 29, 2008
}}</ref> He is most known as the namesake and builder of the [[Brown Grand Theatre]] in [[Concordia, Kansas]], a majestic opera house completed in 1907 and listed on the [[National Register of Historic Places]]. The theater has been called "the most elegant theater between Kansas City and Denver."<ref name="loc" />

[[Frank Carlson]] was an American politician who served as the [[List of Governors of Kansas|30th]] [[Governor of Kansas]] and [[United States House of Representatives|United States Representative]] and [[United States Senate|United States Senator]] from [[Kansas]]. He called Concordia his home.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=C000154|title=Biographical Directory of the United States Congress|publisher=[[United States Congress]]|access-date=March 30, 2012}}</ref>

[[Larry Hartshorn]] was a former [[National Football League|NFL]] [[Guard (American football)|Offensive Guard]] who played for the [[Chicago Cardinals]] in 1955 and 1957. He later played in the [[Canadian Football League]] with the [[Calgary Stampeders]] in 1958. After his years in professional football, Hartshorn moved to Concordia to become a teacher and coach for 33 years at [[Concordia Junior-Senior High School]], where he coached [[Keith Christensen]]. Hartshorn began the [[Scholastic wrestling|wrestling]] program in 1966, running it as [[head coach]] from 1966 to 1974. He continued to serve in various coaching and education capacities until his retirement.

[[Ernest C. Quigley]] was a [[basketball]] [[official (basketball)|referee]] and as an [[umpire (baseball)|umpire]] in [[Major League Baseball]]. He also worked as an [[American football]] coach and official. Quigley was raised in [[Concordia, Kansas]] where he was a prominent member of the [[Concordia Junior-Senior High School|high school]] football team in the 1890s.<ref>''It Takes People to Make a Town'' by Janet Pease Emery, p. 101, 1971</ref> In 1944 he became the [[athletic director]] at the [[University of Kansas]].<ref>[http://www.kshs.org/genealogists/individuals/vertical/bios/quigleyerniec.htm Kansas State Historical Society] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100703005817/http://www.kshs.org/genealogists/individuals/vertical/bios/quigleyerniec.htm |date=July 3, 2010 }} "E.C. (Ernie) Quigley"</ref>