The community gets its name from the first post office located in a private residence. Thomas B. Dexter circulated the petition in the winter of 1872-1873 for a Post Office Named Dexter. This was denied as Dexter in southern Kansas had already been established. Undeterred he resubmitted the post office application with the name Home, saying "well it's Home to me!" The post office eventually was moved to its own building, which is now facing possible closure due to postal service austerity measures.
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History of Marshall County, Kansas1917 · page 479Read the page →
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he located in Winifred and for two years worked as a farm hand, at which time he was married in a log cabin, in 1879, to Inez Crane, after which he rented a farm and tliere established his home. After three years he purchased a farm two miles south and one mile east of Home City, where he and his family lived until 1889 when he engaged in the grocery business at Home City, which lousiness he conducted until 1891, when he engaged in the carpenter work. In 1896 he moved to Alarysville, where he worked in the general store of Erank Powell until October, 1899, when he purchased the
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Wales, who came to this country in the seventies and settled at Madison, Wisconsin, moving thence, in 1880, to Kansas and settling in Franklin township, this county. A few years later Joshua Thomas moved to the village of Home, where he engaged in the mercantile business and there spent the remainder of his life, his death occurring on January 19, 1905, he then being about sixty years of age. His widow is now living at Marysville. Nellie Thomas was graduated from the high school at Chillicothe, Missouri, took a special course in music and was engaged in teaching in this county at the
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