![]() ![]() He was in touch with Russian and foreign authorities at Berdyansk, from whom he received information regarding Canada and America. Soon for some individuals of deep-rooted convictions, America appeared on the horizon. When rumors regarding a general conscription law came into circulation among the Mennonites in Russia around 1870 they were alarmed. When the Mennonites settled in Russia in 1789 and the following years they were given written guarantees by the Czars that they could settle in solid communities, conduct their own schools, and have their own administration and also that they would be exempted from any form of military service. The Beginning of the Settlements of Mennonites from Russia, Poland, and Prussia The Amish of Yoder and Partridge in Reno County near Hutchinson came to Kansas starting in 1883, and an Amish Mennonite congregation was established at Crystal Springs in Harper County in 1904. Later Pennsylvania Mennonites (MC) established the following congregations: Catlin in Marion County in 1877, West Liberty in McPherson County in 1883, Pennsylvania in Harvey County in 1885, and Pleasant Valley in Harper County in 1897. The beginnings of this settlement preceded the great Mennonite migration to the prairie states and provinces from Russia by two years. Soon others followed from Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, and Missouri. The east edge of the twenty-three mile furrow bordered on the Brunk farm and cemetery located on Highway 50 between Hillsboro and Marion. This became the nucleus of the Spring Valley Mennonite Church ( Mennonite Church), located on the western end of the "twenty-three mile furrow," which connected the scattered farms of the Pennsylvania-German Mennonites of this area. ![]() Attracted by the Homestead Act of 1862, Daniel, Christian, and Margaret Kilmer of Elkhart County, Indiana, settled in the southeastern part of McPherson County in 1871. Keim and his friends from Pennsylvania in 1869-1870 purchased from Case and Billings 5,000 acres near Marion Center. The first Mennonites, however, to settle in Kansas came from the eastern states at an earlier date. Kansas had a larger Mennonite population than any other state west of the Mississippi, most of whom came to America during the great Mennonite migration of the 1870s from Russia, Poland, and Prussia. Kansas was organized as a territory in 1854 and admitted to the Union in 1861. In 2005, 90.87% of the population were White and 6.60% were African American. It has a total area of 82,277 square miles (213,096 kmĀ²), and had an estimated population of 2,802,134 in 2008. Kansas is a Midwestern state located in the central region of the United States. ![]()
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