Name: Lightfootv8-36

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Sources
1. Title:   Jaeger, Louise
Author:   Louise Jaeger
Publication:   This information came from Yvonne Linn who obtained it from her aunt. The original named source is Louise Jaeger of Burlington, Iowa, a descendent of Thomas Jefferson Lightfoot. She seems to have done extensive research on the Lightfoot family and has more information on the "original" Daniel Lightfoot's wife's family, the Algar/Kennedys. She mentioned in her letter to Yvonne's aunt that she had received much of her information from a cousin, Donna Trapnell in San Diego, California.
2. Title:   1850 U.S. census, <i>FamilySearch</i>, index and images
Page:   M432, Green Township, Wayne County, Ohio, p. 186B, dwelling 202, family 205, Daniel Lightfoot and Susannah Arnsberger, accessed 8 Nov 2009
Publication:   https://familysearch.org/search/collection/1401638: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.
3. Title:   1860 U.S. census, <i>FamilySearch</i>, index and images
Page:   M653, Iowa Township, Cedar County, Iowa, p. 145-146, dwelling 984, family 1007, Daniel Lightfoot and Susannah Arnsberger, accessed 17 Dec 2013
Publication:   https://familysearch.org/search/collection/1473181: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.
4. Title:   1870 U.S. census, <i>FamilySearch</i>, index and images
Page:   M593, Iowa Township, Cedar County, Iowa, p. 28, dwelling 210, family 211, Daniel Lightfoot and Susannah Arnsberger, accessed 08 Nov 2009
Publication:   https://familysearch.org/search/collection/1438024: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.
5. Title:   1880 U.S. census, <i>FamilySearch</i>, index and images
Page:   T9, roll 0398, Gore Township, Sumner County, Kansas, enumeration district (ED) 189, p. 8D, dwelling 64, family 67, Daniel Lightfoot and Susannah Arnsberger, accessed 23 Dec 2013
Publication:   https://familysearch.org/search/collection/1417683: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.
6. Title:   1850 U.S. census, <i>FamilySearch</i>, index and images
Page:   M432, Green Township, Wayne County, Ohio, p. 186B, dwelling 202, family 205, Daniel Lightfoot and Susannah Arnsberger, accessed 8 Nov 2009
Publication:   https://familysearch.org/search/collection/1401638: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.
7. Title:   1860 U.S. census, <i>FamilySearch</i>, index and images
Page:   M653, Iowa Township, Cedar County, Iowa, p. 145-146, dwelling 984, family 1007, Daniel Lightfoot and Susannah Arnsberger, accessed 17 Dec 2013
Publication:   https://familysearch.org/search/collection/1473181: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.
8. Title:   1870 U.S. census, <i>FamilySearch</i>, index and images
Page:   M593, Iowa Township, Cedar County, Iowa, p. 28, dwelling 210, family 211, Daniel Lightfoot and Susannah Arnsberger, accessed 08 Nov 2009
Publication:   https://familysearch.org/search/collection/1438024: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.
9. Title:   1880 U.S. census, <i>FamilySearch</i>, index and images
Page:   T9, roll 0398, Gore Township, Sumner County, Kansas, enumeration district (ED) 189, p. 8D, dwelling 64, family 67, Daniel Lightfoot and Susannah Arnsberger, accessed 23 Dec 2013
Publication:   https://familysearch.org/search/collection/1417683: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.

Notes
a. Note:   NI188 The first school built in Mulvane, Kansas was a two story frame building with two rooms on the first floor and one large room on the second floor. It was in this large room that the upper grades and a few high school subjects were taught. The first term of school taught in Mulvane was in 1880-1881, with Luke Lightfoot as the principal and Mrs. J. B. Shaw as teacher. The second and third terms were taught by Mr. Lightfoot and Miss McCart. The next principal was W. W. Bolton.
  (Source: "Mulvane - City of the Valley, 1879-1977", page 41)
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  Margaret Wright, who helps run the Mulvane Historical Museum, said that "Mrs. J. B. Shaw" was known as "Janey Shaw" and was probably either the wife or daughter-in-law of the owner of the local Mulvane drug store, Shaw's Drugs.
  It is interesting to note the educator occupation of Luke Lightfoot especially knowing that he was born in Ohio, at age 7 traveled by covered wagon to Cedar County, Iowa, and no doubt received his schooling from the predominant Quaker influenced rural school system in Cedar County. Because he was 30 years old when he went with his parents to Kansas, it must be wondered if he did not have any actual teaching experience in Iowa prior to that move. It would be assumed that he must have taught some classrooms there because as soon as he arrived in Mulvane, Kansas, he was made principal of that brand new school. His experience at that point may have been only minimal or perhaps non-existent but his schooling from back in Iowa and his ability to read and write may have been more than sufficient for the fledging school system in Mulvane and the prairie farmers in the area. In nearby Labette County, Kansas to where Luke later moved, were the Alloway family members (Malinda Arnspiger, 2nd cousin of Luke's mother, Susannah Arnsberger, married Abijah Alloway). It is not known if Luke was aware of their presence or his relationship to them but it must be quite a coincidence that he may have taught school to some of his own 2nd and 3rd cousins.
  In an E-mail from Melvin and Della Shafer <harjii@mediaone.net> who do volunteer lookups for Sumner County, Kansas, they indicate in the atlas on an "Advertising Directory" page, is listed "The Kansas Mutual Aid Association", of Mulvane, Kansas and shows in its list of officers, "L. Lightfoot, Pres." I have yet to be able to determine the function of the Kansas Mutual Aid Association and there appears to be very little information about it. I suspect that it may have been related to agriculture or the range wars in Kansas.
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  "Professor L. Lightfoot is principal of Altamont, Labette County, Kansas. That's quite an educational center, the county high schools being there. Luke came in Sunday to attend his father's funeral. Returned Tuesday evening."
  "George Farnsworth and family came up from Arkansas City first of the week to attend funeral of Mrs. Farnsworth's father, Daniel Lightfoot."
  (Source: <i>Mulvane Record</i>, Mulvane, Kansas, November 1, 1895)
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  I sometimes think my great grandfather Thomas Burnett had itchy feet as he and Luke Lightfoot went on to Arkansas a few years later looking for a better place to grow fruit. They lived there only a year and came back to Kansas.
  (Source: from Phyllis Storey-Harrison, June 1, 2004)
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  (Brian L. Lightfoot) I have a printed flyer made in 1893 that is entitled "Commendations and Awards" for Luke Lightfoot as "Principal of Schools" in Dexter County, Kansas. I'm not sure if this office were an elected one or not but it is full of endorsements and praises from local officials. It shows that Luke held positions in the following school areas:
  Mulvane, Sumner County, Kansas: Principalship of Schools (1880-1881?)
 Derby, Sedgwick County, Kansas: 1888-1889, 1891-1892
 Dexter, Cowley County, Kansas: Principal, 1892-1893
 Altamont, Labette County, Kansas: Principal, 1895
 Dighton, Lane County, Kansas:
 Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas: Institute Instructor
 Sumner County, Kansas: Associate Examiner
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