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Date: November 14, 1918-November 15, 1918
This correspondence to Governor Capper from W.M. Jardine, President of Kansas State Agricultural College, contains Jardine’s suggestions regarding the possibility of allotting land in Kansas for returning soldiers. In the…
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Date: November 08, 1918
In this letter, Governor Arthur Capper asks W.M. Jardine, President of Kansas State Agricultural College, for his advice regarding the feasibility of securing land in Kansas for soldiers returning from…
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Date: October 16, 1945-November 01, 1945
This correspondence between Governor Schoeppel and O.M. Raines, addresses Raines desire to return to his pre-war position as a civilian doctor. Serving as Chief of the Reconditioning Service at Fitzsimmons…
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Date: September 22, 1945-September 24, 1945
This correspondence between Governor Schoeppel and Dr. J.A. Billingsley deals with the severe shortage of doctors that Kansas faced throughout World War II. In his letter to Governor Schoeppel, Billingsley…
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Date: 1945
This correspondence between Governor Schoeppel and various individuals, including Senator Arthur Capper, addresses the serious shortage of medical doctors in Kansas in the later summer of 1945. Because of the…
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Date: August 04, 1943
In this telegram to President Roosevelt, Governor Schoeppel transmits the resoultion of the Governors’ Committee. The resolution, signed by state governors throughout the midwest and southwest, discusses the impact of…
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Date: August 02, 1943
In this letter to Governor Schoeppel, Chester Stevens of Independence, Kansas, argues that the proposed cut in the value gasoline “A” coupons to the Midwest is unfair due to the…
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Date: June 07, 1944-June 16, 1944
This correspondence between Governor Schoeppel and Minister C. Fosberg Hughes of the Plymouth Congregational Church in Lawrence, Kansas, concerns the possibility of using Japanese Americans as laborers in Kansas. In…
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Date: February 19, 1943-November 27, 1943
This correspondence between Russell McClure, City Manager of Wichita, and several important individuals in Kansas, including Governor Schoeppel, addresses the problems accompanying the attendance of two Japanese American students at…
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Date: September 01, 1943
In this letter to Governor Schoeppel, Kansas House of Representatives member Benjamin O. Weaver explains that many of his constituents in Kiowa County, Kansas, are opposed to the use of…
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Date: April 07, 1943-April 14, 1943
This correspondence addresses the possibility of bringing Japanese Americans to Kansas as laborers. In the first item, from The Topeka Building and Construction Trades Council, Frank Black, Secretary-Treasurer of the…
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Date: March 31 - April 4, 1943
This correspondence addresses the possibility of moving Japanese Americans to Kansas to serve as laborers. In her letter to Shoeppel, Mrs. Mary Golden of Matfield Green, Kansas, argues that Japanese…
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Date: March 29, 2009
In this letter to Governor Andrew Schoeppel, L.M. Rymph, State Superintendent of Congregational Christian Churches, explains that he believes using Japanese Americans as laborers in Kansas “will mean much in…
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Date: March 5, 1856
A speech of Hon. John Cadwalader, Congressman from Pennsylvania, on the legislation of the United States upon the subject of slavery in the territories, delivered in the U. S. House…
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Date: July 16, 1863
A letter written by former Kansas Territorial Governor Andrew Horatio Reeder to an unknown man regarding the payment of Reeder’s taxes. A searchable, full-text version of this letter is available…
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Date: February 07, 1856
A letter written by William H. Hutter, editor of the Easton (Pa.) Argus, to Andrew Horatio Reeder, regarding the Republican and Democratic parties. Hutter mentions a letter written by Reeder…
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Date: September 7, 1856
A letter written by William Hutchinson, a resident of Lawrence, Kansas Territory, and correspondent from the New York Tribune, to former Territorial Governor Andrew Horatio Reeder, regarding the struggles in…
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Date: March 29, 1943-April 01, 1943
This coresspondence, between Governor Schoeppel and W.H. von der Heiden of Newton, Kansas, addresses the problems related to the possibility of using Japanese Americans as laborers in Kansas. In his…
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Date: May 29, 1856
A letter written by Kansas Territorial Governor Wilson Shannon to former Governor Andrew Horatio Reeder regarding a hearing to discuss the incident of voter fraud, which occurred in the delegate…
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Date: February 12-16, 1943
This correspondence deals with the possibility of moving Japanese Americans to Kansas to serve as laborers during World War II. In the letter to Governor Schoeppel, Avis Atkinson of Fall…
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Date: January 11, 1943
In this letter to Governor Schoeppel, Russell E. McClure, City Manager of Wichita, Kansas, explains to Schoeppel that the leadership of the city is against bringing Japanese Americans to Wichita…
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Date: March 29, 1856
A letter written by William A. Howard to Kansas Territorial Governor Andrew Horatio Reeder, regarding the Howard Committee, which was appointed by the U.S. Congress to investigate widespread claims of…
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Date: March 28, 1856
A letter from William A. Howard to Kansas Territorial Governor Andrew Horatio Reeder, regarding the Howard Committee formed by the U. S. Congress to investigate wide spread fraudulent voting in…
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Date: January 10, 1943
In this letter to Governor Schoeppel, R.E. Carver of the United Brotherhood of Carpenter’s and Joiners of America Local #201 of Wichita, informs Schoeppel that his union opposes the possible…
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Date: February 15, 1855
A letter written by Judge Warren Jay Woodward, Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, to Kansas Territorial Governor Andrew Horatio Reeder, regarding the controversy between anti-slavery and pro-slavery forces in Kansas. Woodward feels that…
