Medium: Text
Date: 1856
Findings of a Grand Jury for Douglas County, Kansas [Territory] in relation to the newspapers “Herald of Freedom” and “Kansas Free State” which were accused of “publications of a most…
Medium: Text
Date: July 1, 1890
This volume contains land grants, statutory powers and judicial interpretations, issues of capital stock, leases, purchases, mortgages, indentures of trust securing the bonds of the company, and the act incorporating…
Medium: Text
Date: 1858-1861
Legislative resolutions from Kansas Territory covering a wide range of topics, including a resolution allowing the Secretary of the Territory to correct clerical errors in laws, a resolution requiring the…
Medium: Text
Date: 1859
Petitions from the 1859 Kansas Territory Legislative Assembly focusing on women’s suffrage. Signers include Clarina Nichols, Charles and Sara Robinson, Mary E. Lane, and Augustus and Susan Wattles. After more…
Medium: Text
Date: 1862
Letters from Aiken J. Sexton to his wife, Catherine. Aiken was a private from Company E of the 12th Wisconsin Volunteers and wrote these letters as he traveled through Kansas…
Medium: Text
Date: 1858
Correspondence relating to the capitol building in Lecompton, Kansas Territory. Lecompton served as the official capital of territorial Kansas from 1855 until 1861. Letters include contractual obligations, claims of work,…
Medium: Text
Date: 1855-1856
Correspondence relating to Kansas territorial troubles. Topics include interference with law enforcement and the movement of prisoners, reports of raids, and letters from militia leaders. Many of the documents are…
Medium: Text
Date: 1855-1856
Correspondence relating to the Southern Division and independent companies of the Kansas Militia. Includes commissions issued by Colonel George W. Johnson of the 2nd Regiment for William F. Donaldson, John…
Medium: Text
Date: 1855-1856
Correspondence relating to the militia, Northern division and Independent companies of the Kansas Territory. Some of the companies mentioned are the Kickapoo Rangers, Doniphan Tigers, Palmetto Rifles, Round Prairie Guards,…
Medium: Text
Date: 1855-1856
Correspondence and miscellaneous documents relating to the capitol building in Lecompton, Kansas Territory. Some of these documents include a letter to Governor Andrew Reeder concerning drawings and specifications for the…
Medium: Text
Date: 1910
This is an illustration of Josiah C. Trask, copied from Quantrill and the Border Wars by William Elsey Connelley. On August 21, 1863, the day Quantrill raided Lawrence, Kansas, Dr.…
Medium: Text
Date: 1856
Material relating to the case against Charles Robinson on the charge of usurpation of office. This charge was due to Charles Robinson being elected governor under the Topeka Constitution of…
Medium: Text
Date: 1856
Material relating to the Kansas Territory, U.S. District Court 2nd District versus Charles Robinson for treason. This charge was due to Charles Robinson being elected “governor of Kansas” under the…
Medium: Text
Date: 1874-1883
Materials belonging to Benjamin (Pap) Singleton consisting of business and family correspondence. Included are letters from two daughters living in Tennessee. There is also a letter of recognition from Kansas…
Medium: Text
Date: 1863-1864
This bound letter book contains copies of letters sent and received by the Adjutant General’s Office in Fort Scott, Kansas. They were assigned to recruit a regiment of colored soldiers.…
Medium: Text
Date: 1858-1862
Daniel Read Anthony letters covering 1858, 1861 and 1862. Daniel was an abolitionist and free stater, and served two terms as mayor of Leavenworth, Kansas. These letters focus on the…
Medium: Text
Date: 1861
These two letters from the Allen T. Ward collection focus on Kansas at the onset of the Civil War. The letter from Allen to his sister concerns the numerous raids…
Medium: Text
Date: October 1863-November 1863
These two letters from Mary Savage detail her experience with Quantrill’s raid on Lawrence, Kansas. Mary describes seeing homes and businesses burning and women trying to put the fires out,…
Medium: Text
Date: November 11, 1947
This is a letter from Joe J. Wilson and George Hedrick, representing the Chamber of Commerce of Lawrence, Kansas to United States Representative Albert Cole, Washington, D.C. Wilson and Hedrick…
Medium: Text
Date: December, 1948
This is a letter from Ramona Nelson, Cleburne, Kansas, to United States Representative Albert Cole, Washington, D.C. and Rep. Cole’s response to her. He indicates that he is opposed to…
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Date: February 20, 1948
A letter from H. K. Harper, president of the North Topeka Merchants Association, Topeka, Kansas, to United States Representative Albert Cole, Washington, D. C. Harper writes on behalf of the…
Medium: Text
Date: August 17, 1951
This is a telegram from Glenn Dale Stockwell, sent from Topeka, Kansas, to United States Representative Albert Cole, Washington, D.C. Stockwell, who was a resident of the Blue River Valley…
Medium: Text
Date: August 17, 1951
This is a telegram from J. D. Rogers, Marysville, Kansas to United States Representative Albert Cole. Rogers writes that he is opposed to the Pick-Sloan Missouri Basin Program which he…
Medium: Text
Date: February 04, 1952
This letter was written by Alicia Vandahl, Randolph, Kansas, to United States Representative Albert Cole, Washington, D.C. She writes in opposition to building Tuttle Creek dam because she believes it…
Medium: Text
Date: 1861-1862
James Montgomery was a well known Kansas “jayhawker.” Born in Ohio in 1814, Montgomery moved to Kentucky, taught school, and became a minister in the “Campbellite” church. Then he went…
