Madam Speaker. I rise today to pay tribute to the city of Eudora. Kansas. located in the Third Congressional District. which will celebrate its 150th anniversary on October 5th and 6th of this year. In 1856. three members of a German Immigrant Settlement Company [called DeutscheNeusiedlungsverein] from Chicago sent out a location committee to choose a town site in the new Indian Territory. which had been opened up to settlement by the KansasNebraska Act. enacted in 1854. Both pro- and antislavery groups flocked to this territory. The three Germans sent to the present site were H. Heimann. F. Barteldes and C.
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