The series contains original affidavits of registration that record personal information about each registrant, their photograph affixed to the majority of documents, and the registrants fingerprints. All of these are specific to Kansas, and most have the actual documents attached.
William H. Brandenburg, born in Clay County, Indiana, on October 19, 1824, moved to Hutton, Illinois, with his family at age four. After working on a farm in Wisconsin and hauling lead for nine years, he settled on his own 150-acre farm in Hutton Township. A veteran of the Civil War, he served in Company H, 10th Illinois Volunteer Cavalry, until the war’s end. He married Elizabeth J. Tucker in 1849, and they had nine children, six of whom survived into adulthood.
Solomon Brandenburg, born on September 3, 1830, in Hutton Township, was the fifth son of an early county settler. At 19, he moved to Wisconsin to haul lead with his brothers. In 1858, he acquired a farm on Section 13. He married Sallie Smith on February 5, 1850, fathering seven children, five of whom survived, including Ford, Polly, Hester A., Ulysses G., and Rose. Ford later married Louisa A. Cooper, expanding the Brandenburg lineage.
C. P. Brandenburg, born on August 24, 1828, in Clay County, Indiana, was the son of early settlers Solomon O. and Alezan. He lived with his parents until 17, then worked in Wisconsin hauling lead, making seasonal returns home. In 1856, he established a farm on Sec. 14, which he developed from a log cabin. He married Mary Cox in 1850, with whom he had twelve children, seven surviving her death in 1875. He remarried Nancy J. Baker in 1877, fathering one more child.
James Brandenburg was born on April 20, 1820, in Hardin County, Kentucky. His family relocated to Clay County, Indiana, before settling in his current county in 1829. After working locally until the age of 18, he spent two years in Wisconsin before establishing a farm southeast of Salisbury in 1844. He later moved to his current farm on Section 7. Married to Neety Cooper in 1843, they had seven children, of whom four survived into adulthood.