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Date: August 10, 1912
This Union Pacific Railroad agricultural bulleitn shows aggregate statistical crop yields and population figures for each Kansas county in the entire state. Union Pacific Railroad Company Agriculture Bulletin (No. 103).
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Date: December 05, 1863
This letter from Robert Crozier to Abraham Lincoln, President of the United States, presents Crozier’s resignation as Attorney of the United States for the Kansas District to become Chief Justice…
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Date: January 25, 1865
This letter from Samuel Ryan Curtis to Abraham Lincoln, President of the United States, recommends Judge Mark W. Delahay for an appointment abroad.
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Date: Between 1863 and 1864
This letter from Samuel Hallett to Abraham Lincoln, President of the United States, discusses and promotes construction of the Union Pacific Railroad.
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Date: January 14, 1863
This certificate grants Robert B. Nay a full and unconditional pardon from prison at New Orleans in the Eastern District Louisiana. The certificate is signed by Abraham Lincoln, President of…
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Date: March 8, 1865
This certificate appointing George W. Martin, Register of the Land Office at Junction City, Kansas. The certificate is signed by Abraham Lincoln, President of the United States, and John Palmer…
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Date: April 29, 1861
This certificate appoints Mark W. Delahay, Surveyor General of the United States for the District of Kansas and Nebraska. The certificate is signed by Abraham Lincoln, President of the United…
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Date: March 15, 1864
This certificate appoints Mark W. Delahay, Judge of the District Court of the United States for the District of Kansas. The certificate is signed by Abraham Lincoln, President of the…
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Date: October 6, 1863
This certificate appoints Mark W. Delahay, Judge of the District Court of the United States for the District of Kansas. The certificate is signed by Abraham Lincoln, President of the…
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Date: July 17, 1861
This certificate appoints Mark W. Delahay, Surveyor General of the United States for the District of Kansas and Nebraska. The certificate is signed by Abraham Lincoln, President of the United…
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Date: April 07, 1863
This document is a military commission for Oliver S. Coffin, appointing him Assistant Quartermaster of the Volunteers with the rank of captain. The commission is signed by Abraham Lincoln, President…
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Date: 1843
This compact, with an attached note signed by five Ottawa chiefs, was passed in a general council of twenty-one Indian nations held at Tahlequah, Oklahoma. Apparently this compact was a…
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Date: January 11, 1843
This balance sheet, prepared by Baptist missionary Jotham Meeker, outlines the income and expenses of the Ottawa mission during 1842. This mission was located near present-day Ottawa, Kansas. It includes…
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Date: November 29, 1833
In this letter Jotham Meeker, a Baptist missionary to the Shawnee in Indian Territory, discussed the Ottawa Indians who were residing on Shawnee lands. Meeker spoke to several Ottawa chiefs…
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Date: January 10, 1834
In this letter to Rev. Crosby, of the Baptist Board of Foreign Missions, missionary Jotham Meeker expressed his interest in bringing the Christian gospel to the Ottawa Indians. Meeker was…
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Date: February 13, 1839
In this letter, Jotham Meeker, a missionary to the Ottawa Indians, provided a description of his work teaching the Ottawa how to read and write in their own language. According…
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Date: March 11, 1840
This fascinating letter by Baptist missionary Jotham Meeker describes recent Ottawa converts to Christianity and the Ottawa chief Ottowukkee’s passionate stand against further missionary efforts. Apparently, just as Ottowukkee was…
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Date: July 8, 1840
In this fascinating letter, Jotham Meeker updated Reverend Lucius Bolles (of the Baptist Board of Foreign Missions) on his missionary efforts among the Ottawa Indians in Kansas Territory. Meeker included…
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Date: July 11, 1859
Gottlieb F. Oehler, a Moravian missionary working with the Chippewa and Munsee Indians in Kansas Territory, wrote this letter to Eli Price regarding the mistreatment of Indians and whites’ disrespectful…
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Date: 1857
This is a transcribed copy of a conversation between Keotuck and his fellow Potawatomi leaders and their Indian agent, Royal Baldwin. The Potawatomi and Kickapoo had been living on the…
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Date: 1861
This account book belonging to an Indian agent named James Burnett Abbott lists the names of Shawnee Indian heads of household, the number of family members within their household, and…
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Date: 1842
In his journal Johnston Lykins, a missionary to the Shawnee Indians in Kansas Territory, jotted down verb conjugations for the Shawnee alphabet he had developed while working at the Shawnee…
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Date: February 13, 1857
In this letter William Brindle, receiver of the Lecompton Land Office, informed his associate Thomas Hendricks that the Delaware Indian lands that had been put up for public sale in…
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Date: October 30, 1834
Jotham Meeker, a missionary to the Ottawa Indians, wrote this letter to his contact on the Baptist Board of Foreign Missions, Reverend Lucius Bolles. From this letter, it appears that…
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Date: May 20, 1829
This letter contains a copy of a petition from Illinois settlers who were displeased that the Sac and Fox tribes, who ceded their lands in 1804 and 1816, had not…
