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Sumner County organization records
Date: 1871-1873
In order for an unorganized county to be recognized by the state of Kansas, a certain number of householders/legal electors had to petition the governor. The governor would appoint a…
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Stevens County organization records
Date: 1886
In order for an unorganized county to be recognized by the state of Kansas, a certain number of householders/legal electors had to petition the governor. The governor would appoint a…
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Stanton County organization records
Date: 1887
In order for an unorganized county to be recognized by the state of Kansas, a certain number of householders/legal electors had to petition the governor. The governor would appoint a…
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Stafford County organization records
Date: 1879
In order for an unorganized county to be recognized by the state of Kansas, a certain number of householders/legal electors had to petition the governor. The governor would appoint a…
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Smith County organization records
Date: 1872
In order for an unorganized county to be recognized by the state of Kansas, a certain number of householders/legal electors had to petition the governor. The governor would appoint a…
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Map of Cheyenne Bottoms
Date: January 1958
A map of Cheyenne Bottoms from the “Kansas Fish and Game” magazine. The map shows canals, diversion dams, and the five pools of water that comprise the wetland refuge in…
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Shirley County organization records
Date: 1866
In order for an unorganized county to be recognized by the state of Kansas, a certain number of householders/legal electors had to petition the governor. The governor would appoint a…
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Charles Huffman to Governor Arthur Capper
Date: October 23, 1918
In this letter to Governor Capper, Adjutant General Huffman reports his findings from visiting Camp Funston. In response to complaints from family members of men at Funston’s hospital, Governor Capper…
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Sherman County organization records
Date: 1886
In order for an unorganized county to be recognized by the state of Kansas, a certain number of householders/legal electors had to petition the governor. The governor would appoint a…
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Sheridan County organization records
Date: 1880
In order for an unorganized county to be recognized by the state of Kansas, a certain number of householders/legal electors had to petition the governor. The governor would appoint a…
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Dollie Boland to Governor Arthur Capper
Date: October 22, 1918
In this letter, Dollie Boland of Stafford, Kansas, asks Kansas Governor Arthur Capper to find out why the U.S. Army will not let family members visit their loved ones at…
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Seward County organization records
Date: 1886
In order for an unorganized county to be recognized by the state of Kansas, a certain number of householders/legal electors had to petition the governor. The governor would appoint a…
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Sedgwick County organization records
Date: 1870
In order for an unorganized county to be recognized by the state of Kansas, a certain number of householders/legal electors had to petition the governor. The governor would appoint a…
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Governor Arthur Capper to General Leonard Wood
Date: October 19, 1918
In this telegram to General Leonard Wood, Commander of Camp Funston, Governor Capper informs Wood that a group of twelve mothers with sons at Camp Funston, visited his office and…
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General Leonard Wood to Governor Arthur Capper
Date: October 19, 1918
In this letter to Governor Capper, General Leonard Wood, Commander of Camp Funston, details the situation at Funston during the Influenza of 1918. Arguing that he and his medical staff…
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General Leonard Wood to Governor Arthur Capper
Date: October 24, 1918
In this letter to Governor Capper, General Leonard Wood, Commander of Camp Funston, thanks Capper for sending Adjutant General Huffman to Funston to assess the situation during the Influenza of…
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Charles Huffman to Governor Arthur Capper
Date: October 23, 1918
In this letter to Governor Capper, Kansas Adjutant General Charles S. Huffman details the situation at Camp Funston during the influenza outbreak of 1918. Ordered by Capper to investigate conditions…
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Governor Arthur Capper to Dollie Boland
Date: October 24, 1918
In this letter, Kansas Governor Arthur Capper responds to an earlier letter from Mrs. Dollie Boland of Stafford, Kansas. Boland had written him to find out about her brother who…
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Lars Larsen correspondence
Date: October 13, 1917-November 20, 1917
This correspondence concerns Lars Larsen, a civilian cook who worked at the officer’s mess facility at Camp Funston, Kansas. Larsen, a native of Denmark, was arrested on September 21, 1917,…
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Scott County organization records
Date: 1886
In order for an unorganized county to be recognized by the state of Kansas, a certain number of householders/legal electors had to petition the governor. The governor would appoint a…
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Saline County organization records
Date: 1861
In order for an unorganized county to be recognized by the state of Kansas, a certain number of householders/legal electors had to petition the governor. The governor would appoint a…
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Russell County organization records
Date: 1872
In order for an unorganized county to be recognized by the state of Kansas, a certain number of householders/legal electors had to petition the governor. The governor would appoint a…
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Governor Andrew Shoeppel correspondence
Date: October 07, 1943-October 12, 1943
This correspondence concerns the use of convicted criminals as soldiers in the U.S. military. Mrs. W.A. Chambers asks Governor Schoeppel if he had considered using convicts as soldiers because they…
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Rush County organization records
Date: 1874-1877
In order for an unorganized county to be recognized by the state of Kansas, a certain number of householders/legal electors had to petition the governor. The governor would appoint a…
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Ikenberry and Schoeppel correspondence
Date: August 5 - 7, 1943
W.D. Ikenberry, a carpenter from Hay, Kansas, informs Governor Schoeppel that he believes that the excess lumber being used to construct the many U.S. military facilities in the state of…