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George Hamlin to Governor John St. John
Date: March 1880
Kansas Governor St. John receives a speaking invitation from La Cygne, Kansas.
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Jacob Brumbaugh to Governor John St. John
Date: March 10, 1880
Temperance worker Jacob Brumbaugh, pens his concern that Kansas Governor St. John has not addressed his previous request for transportation passes.
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W.H. Bower to Governor John St. John
Date: February 11, 1880
Kansas Governor St. John receives confirmation from W.H. Bower of Manhattan, Kansas, to lecture there on the February 20th.
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J.B. Abbott to Governor John St. John
Date: February 05, 1880
J. B. Abbott promises a full house if Kansas Governor St. John could speak in De Soto, Kansas.
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Kansas Woman’s Christian Temperance Union motion pictures
Date: 1928-1933
This material concerns proposed legislation allowing the sale of tickets to Sunday movies (House Bill 424). The Kansas Woman’s Christian Temperance Union opposed Sunday movies “owing to their destructive tendencies.”…
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D. O. McCray to Governor John St. John
Date: March 15, 1880
From Douglas, Kansas, comes a plea for Kansas Governor St. John to speak on temperance to his “many warm friends” there.
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Kansas Woman’s Christian Temperance Union Frances Willard memorials
Date: 1923-1939
This material relates to memorials for Frances Willard, an American reformer for temperance and women’s suffrage. She became president of the Woman’s Christian Temperance Union in 1879 and held the…
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Kansas Woman’s Christian Temperance Union Carry A. Nation Home
Date: 1923-1938
This correspondence and miscellaneous papers concern the Carry A. Nation Home, a home for elderly women in Kansas City, Kansas, established by the Kansas Woman’s Christian Temperance Union. A number…
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Kansas Woman’s Christian Temperance Union general correspondence
Date: 1910-1939
This is correspondence sent and received by Mary Evelyn Dobbs, corresponding secretary of the Kansas Woman’s Christian Temperance Union from 1907 to 1939. The letters arrived from people across the…
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George F. Hamlin to Governor John St. John
Date: March 14, 1880
George Hamlin expresses his disappointment that Kansas Governor St. John cannot speak as arranged, but hopes he will be available for next Sunday.
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E. B. Gill to Governo John St. John
Date: March 04, 1880
Kansas Governor St. John is invited to speak in Olathe, Kansas on March 7th, 1880.
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J R Detwiler to Governor John St. John
Date: March 08, 1880
Publisher Detwiler of Osage Mission, Kansas, having received a favorable response from Kansas Governor St. John, requests from him a specific date and length of his visit.
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L.A. Curatte to Governor St. John
Date: February 26, 1880
Kansas Governor St. John is urged to send a temperance speaker to Elgin, Kansas, where they “intend to make it warm this summer for the Inebriates.”
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Josiah Coply to Governor John St. John
Date: March 08, 1880
From Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania comes a letter from Josiah Coply, a former Kansan interested in the prospects of Kansas Governor St. John’s proposed prohibition amendment.
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C. B. Alford to Governor John St. John
Date: March 1880
Kansas Governor St. John is invited to deliver a temperance speech in Rossville, Kansas, where they need a “thorough shaking up” on such matters.
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R.L. Cochman to Governor John St. John
Date: February 26, 1880
The citizens of Peabody, Kansas, express their desire, in a letter from the Prohibition Club President, to hear Kansas Governor St. John speak on temperance.
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I.A. Cain to Governor John St. John
Date: March 06, 1880
I.A. Cain, of Clyde, Kansas, would like the Kansas Governor to “help” the temperance work in his area, and address a Temperance Reunion.
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J.C. Burnett to Governor John St. John
Date: February 23, 1880
After adopting a resolution inviting Kansas Governor St. John to speak on temperance in Russell, Kansas, a representative of the union extends the invitation to the Governor. Burnett was associated…
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David C. Beach to Governor John St. John
Date: March 09, 1880
Attorney David Beach of Winfield, Kansas, promises a large audience if Kansas Governor St. John will attend their temperance convention.
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C.B. Alfred to Governor John St. John
Date: March 15, 1880
Working to keep saloons and drinkers out of Rossville, Kansas, C. B. Alfred asks Kansas Governor St. John to deliver a temperance lecture March 21.
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Sara Robinson to Charles S. Gleed
Date: January 07, 1881
A letter from Sara Robinson to Charles S. Gleed, both of Lawrence, Kansas. Sara, the wife of Charles Robinson, writes about John Brown’s role in Lawrence, Kansas, saying that his…
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George L. Stearns and James Montgomery correspondence
Date: May 08, 1861
A letter from George L. Stearns to James Montgomery and Montgomery’s responding letter. Stearns writes about the threat of battle coming to Kansas and Montgomery responds that the Confederacy is…
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George W. Collamore to Honorable William P. Dole
Date: April 21, 1862
A letter written to William P. Dole, Commissioner of Indian Affairs in Washington, D. C., from George W. Collamore in Kansas. Collamore describes the horrible living conditions that the Creek…
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John S. Wilson to Governor John St. John
Date: February 03, 1880
Attorney Wilson of Lawrence appeals to Governor St. John to speak at the Baptist church in his city.
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John S. Wilson to Governor John St. John
Date: February 16, 1880
John Wilson acknowledges Kansas Governor St. John’s acceptance of the invitation to speak in Lawrence, Kansas, on the 22nd.