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Topeka Bridge Company, list of stockholders
Date: July 21, 1858
This document identifies the individuals who provided support to rebuild the Topeka Bridge, which was destroyed in 1858 by strong winds shortly after its completion.
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Cyrus Kurtz Holliday to Franklin Loomis Crane
Date: November 24, 1856
Cyrus Holliday wrote from Meadville, Pennsylvania, to Doctor Franklin Crane, an influential citizen in Topeka, Kansas Territory. Holliday stated his opinions about the prospects for Kansas entering the union as…
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Free State Legislature minutes
Date: March 6, 1856
Minutes of the Topeka free state legislature’s meeting on March 6, 1856, which were published in the Kansas Daily Tribune, March 7, 1856. The Senate discussed admission to the Union…
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Proclamation, Results of the 1855 Free State Election
Date: March 7, 1856
This proclamation, issued by James Lane and Joel Goodin and published in the Kansas Daily Tribune on March 7, 1856, announced to the public the results of the December, 1855,…
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Proclamation, General Constitution and Banking Law
Date: c. November 24, 1855
This article, published in the Kansas Freeman newspaper, called for an election to accept or reject the constitution framed by the Topeka Convention in October, 1855. “Qualified voters of said…
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The Vote on the Topeka Constitution
Date: c. December 15, 1855
This article, printed in the Kansas Freeman newspaper, gave a preliminary count of the votes cast in the election to ratify the Topeka Constitution. Two other issues on the ballot…
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Minutes, Wyandotte Mayor’s Office
Date: October 27, 1859 - November 19, 1859
The minutes from these three meetings–October 17, November 15, and November 19–detail the workings of the mayor’s office in Wyandotte, Kansas Territory. Some of the main points for discussion included…
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Minutes, Wyandotte Board of Trustees
Date: June 12, 1858 - June 15, 1858
These three pages document the proceedings of the first meeting of the Wyandotte City Board of Trustees. The minutes include the listing of elected officers and the sworn oaths that…
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Act of Incorporation, Wyandotte City
Date: June 8, 1858
This act of incorporation for Wyandotte City declared that the town would be incorporated into Leavenworth County, Kansas Territory. Incorporation was decided in court after several taxpayers presented a petition…
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Marcus J. Parrott to Isaac Goodnow
Date: December 30, 1860
Marcus Parrott, Kansas Territory’s delegate to Congress, wrote from Washington D.C. to Isaac Goodnow, confirming that Goodnow could safely count on the passage of his “College Bill” this legislative session.…
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William Goodnow to Isaac Goodnow
Date: December 22, 1860
William Goodnow wrote from Manhattan, Kansas Territory, to his brother Isaac Goodnow, updating him on personal and business matters. He reported that the plastering and joint work in the College…
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Henry L. Denison to Joseph Denison
Date: December 22, 1860
Henry Denison wrote from Bluemont College in Manhattan, Kansas Territory, to his uncle Joseph Denison, who was a Trustee of the College. Henry, who was preparing to begin the fourth…
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Minutes, meetings “on the behalf of sufferers in Kansas”
Date: December 3, 1860
Joseph Denison recorded minutes of preliminary meetings that organized efforts to raise money and donations on behalf of the citizens of Kansas Territory, who had suffered as a result of…
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J. W. Robinson to Isaac Goodnow
Date: November 12, 1860
John W. Robinson wrote from his home in Manhattan, Kansas Territory, to Isaac Goodnow. Robinson had given Goodnow authority to sell some of his Manhattan properties and thanked him for…
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Joseph Denison to Isaac Goodnow
Date: November 9, 1860
Joseph Denison wrote from Cincinatti, Ohio, to Isaac Goodnow, who was also traveling in the East. Denison had been traveling in the Midwest as part of an effort to raise…
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John Kimball to Isaac Goodnow
Date: September 22, 1860
John Kimball wrote from Manhattan, Kansas Territory, to Isaac Goodnow, who was traveling away from his home in the Kansas Territory. Kimball reported on the occupations of a religious camp…
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Joseph Denison to Isaac Goodnow
Date: May 21, 1860
Joseph Denison wrote from Powhattan, Brown County, Kansas Territory, to Isaac Goodnow regarding issues of management of the church and college they had recently constructed. Denison had discovered that, due…
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Marcus J. Parrott to Isaac T. Goodnow
Date: March 4, 1860
Marcus Parrott, Kansas Territory’s elected delegate to Congress, wrote to Isaac Goodnow from Washington, D.C. Parrott reported the status of a bill recently submitted on behalf of the Trustees of…
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Joseph Denison to Isaac Goodnow
Date: June 21, 1860
Joseph Denison wrote from Manhattan, Kansas Territory, to Isaac Goodnow. Denison reported that Charles de Vivaldi, editor and owner of the Manhattan Express newpaper, was having financial trouble. He asserted…
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Rev. W. R. Davis’ endorsement of Bluemont College
Date: May 20, 1860
W. R. Davis, President of Baker University in Baldwin City, Kansas Territory, declared that Bluemont College, founded by Isaac Goodnow, would “not interfere with the legitimate work of Baker University,”…
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William H. Goode’s endorsement of Bluemont College
Date: March 19, 1860
Isaac Goodnow obtained this written endorsement of Bluemont College from William H. Goode, who emphasized both the need that Manhattan, Kansas Territory, had for the college, and the beneficial influence…
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John Pipher to Isaac T. Goodnow
Date: March 16, 1860
John Pipher, President of the Board of Trustees of the Methodist Episcopal Church in Manhattan, Kansas Territory, wrote Isaac Goodnow to state the church would not be ready for dedication…
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Charles F. de Vivaldi naming Isaac Goodnow as newspaper agent
Date: March 11, 1860
This document, written and signed by Charles F. de Vivaldi, Editor and Proprietor of the Manhattan Express newspaper in Manhattan, Kansas Territory, authorized Isaac Goodnow, as “an agent of Bluemont…
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William R. Clark to Isaac Goodnow
Date: February 29, 1860
William Clark wrote from New England to Isaac Goodnow in Manhattan, Kansas Territory. Clark responded to a letter sent to him earlier by Goodnow, in which Goodnow asked Clark if…
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Ivison & Phinney, American Educational Publishing House, to Rev. Isaac T. Goodnow
Date: October 20, 1859
This letter, written by Ivison & Phinney of the American Educational Publishing House on illustrated letterhead, confirmed that a shipment of textbook samples had been sent to Isaac Goodnow. The…