Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 22, Number 69, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 May 1901 — How Topeka Got Its Name. [ARTICLE]

How Topeka Got Its Name.

Charles M. Murdock thus explains the origin of the name Topeka in the Marshall County, Kansas, News: “In !fclay, 1857, my father arrived with his family at the Otoe mission building near the north line of Marshall CountyiHe was sent there by the Presbyterian Home Missionary Society, and was the first missionary sent to the Otoe and Missouri tribes. After we had been fit the mission a few days the seven chiefs of the tribe came over to visit (father, their first missionary. Father (had on an old-fashioned open-breasted (vest, and the Indians named him ToSeka, the definition being white breast r missionary at home.”