Early divorces were recorded with other civil court cases. These divorce case files were separated from the rest of the civil court case files, so there gaps in the numbering of the files. After 1969, divorces were filed separately.

In the late 1880's, Francis J.S. Turnley bought 17,000 acres of land nine miles northwest of the town of Harper and forty miles southeast of Wichita. He returned to England and recruited a colony of sons of wealthy English families to come to Kansas and learn the art of farming and he would help them to buy the land. This group in Runnymede was later known as the "most frivolous and happiest crew of impractical farmers that ever plowed virgin soil."--Chap....

Provides indexes to land patents in Harper County, Oklahoma, with maps showing the location of each patent.

Periodical for the interchange of genealogical data and history of the Melrose (and variant spelligns) families who came mainly from Scotland, and immigrated to the United States. Includes some transcripts and abstracts from local, county, state and national sources (land and property, obituaries, military records, vital records, etc.).

Adam Harper collection of the Harper line and its related families which was collected over many years through out the United States from many individuals. Ancestors from the colonial period are traced into the 20th century.

Ephraim Harper was born in 1790 in County Cavan, Ireland, and served in the British army from 1810 to 1818. He married Jane Stewart (Stuart) in 1819, and they immigrated to North Burgess Township, Lanark Co., Ontario in 1826. He died in 1876.