Salina got its name from the Saline River that flows north of town.
Its founders were a close-knit group of Scotsmen related by blood
or marriage; most came to America from southwestern Scotland
between 1839 and 1854 and settled in Randolph County, Illinois.
Horace Greeley of the New York Tribune sent correspondent William
A. Philips from Randolph County to Lawrence, Kansas, to cover the
turmoil caused by the Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854 and the doctrine
of popular sovereignty. The residents of Kansas were to choose
whether the territory would come into the Union as a slaveholding
or free-soil state. To affect that outcome, both Southerners and
Northern abolitionists sent colonies of settlers to Kansas
Territory. Out of this conflict was born the Salina Town Company.
William A. Philips, his brother David, his sister Christina, and
his brothers-in-law Alexander C. Spilman and Alexander M. Campbell,
along with close friend James Muir, preempted a 320-acre town site
in north central Kansas in 1858. From humble beginnings grew the
largest commercial center in the area: Salina.
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