Founder and owner of Litchfield’s famous Ames Brickyard, Henry Ames, was born in Oswego, New York on May 4, 1846. Builders chose his cream-colored bricks to build business blocks, ...

Litchfield’s first “mayor” – called the Council president then – Jesse Vawter Branham Jr., was born July 8, 1834, in Jennings County, Indiana. He came to Meeker County ...