Johnson County

ID: 1768
This file appears in: American Historian

This map, which shows part of Johnson County, was made about the time that Connelley left Kentucky and moved to Kansas. Courtesy of the Kentucky Historical Society.

This file appears in: American Historian

By McKenzie Martin
Historical Marker #985 in Johnson County remembers noted historian William Elsey Connelley. Born on March 5, 1855, on a prong of the Middle Fork of Jennie's Creek, Connelley received his earliest…