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Date: April 1, 1858
On Thursday afternoon, April 1, the delegates began considering the proposed constitution in its entirety. When they reached Article II, the elective franchise, Hampton P. Johnson of Leavenworth, “moved to…
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Date: 1876
Promotional advertisement pamphlet presenting facts about lands in southwestern Kansas offered for sale by the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad Company.
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Date: April 1, 1858
The Leavenworth constitution was the third of four constitutions proposed for Kansas statehood and the second free-state constitution (after the Topeka and before the Wyandotte constitutions). Delegates for the territory’s…
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Date: March 31, 1858
During the course of the convention’s business on Wednesday, March 31, 1858, the delegates took up the article on “elective Franchise reported back from Committee on Phraseology.” Samuel N. Wood’s…
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Date: November 9, 1855
During the course of the proceedings recorded for the afternoon of November 9, 1855, discussion turned to the effort by Jim Lane to first include a provision for the “removal”…
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Date: October 31, 1855
During the afternoon session of Wednesday, October 31, 1855, Jim Lane presented a “Resolution which was ordered to be entered upon the Journal of the convention–said Resolution being the instructions…
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Date: October 30, 1855
During this session of the constitutional convention, delegates dealt briefly with the question of “an immediate organization of a State Government,” a highly controversial issue, and considered a report on…
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Date: October 26, 1855
During the afternoon session on Friday, October 26, 1855, the convention returned to the issue raised by Delahay that morning, among other more mundane matters.
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Date: October 26, 1855
On Friday, October 26, 1855, the convention conducted some routine business but also entertained a motion by Mark W. Delahay of Leavenworth: “Resolved–That this Convention, approve the principles of non…
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Date: October 24, 1855
According to a copy of the 1902 cover letter written by Samuel C. Smith of Lawrence, secretary/chief clerk for the convention, this incomplete “copy of the Journal of the Topeka…
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Date: ca. 1856
William Hutchinson, secretary of the Kansas Central Committee, wrote from Lawrence to A. Havington Shurtleff, agent for the New York State Kansas Committee. Hutchinson was responding to Shutleff’s request for…
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Date: April 18, 1857
F. A. Hunt, owner of a steamboat and land agent company, wrote from Wyandotte to William Barnes, secretary of the New York State Kansas Committee. Hunt promoted Wyandotte as a…
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Date: 1857
F. A. Hunt & Co., steamboat and land agents, promoted Wyandott City as a destination for potential emigrants to Kansas Territory.
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Date: 1857
F. A. Hunt & Co., steamboat and land agents, advertised steamboat travel on the Kansas River between Wyandott and Manhattan.
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Date: 1855-1856
This journal, compiled by Joel K. Goodin, secretary of the Executive Committee of the Topeka free-state movement, began with a statement explaining the reason the Topeka Movement formed and the…
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Date: June 18, 1860
Gray wrote this draft of a letter to George W. Patterson concerning a treaty between the U. S. government and the Delaware Indians at the request of Rev. Pratt, a…
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Date: November 22, 1858
Charles Robinson gave his consent as an individual member of the Quindaro Town Company that the Board of Trade could use the town company’s printing press and type free of…
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Date: October 30, 1858
Hooper was a member of the Wyandot tribe and authorized Alfred Gray to accept his annuity money from the United States government. He also gave Gray authority to do whatever…
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Date: September 18, 1858
Stebbins was building a telegraph line from St. Louis, Missouri, to Leavenworth, Kansas Territory, and wrote Gray about what would be required to get him to run the line through…
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Date: July 1, 1857
This letter related to an earlier one Tuttle wrote to Alfred Gray. He had made arrangements to purchase land from Guthrie and suggested he get the money from Gray or…
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Date: June 25, 1857
Tuttle wrote from Buffalo, New York, about his plans to come to Kansas Territory by the fall. Alfred Gray had been a practicing lawyer in Buffalo before settling in Quindaro,…
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Date: June 13, 1857
Gray agreed to transfer lot number 77 on the levee in Quindaro to Klaus in return for $100 in cash in six months and $1000 worth of mason work, labor,…
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Date: October 24, 1859
In response to an October 17th letter from the Seward Club of Lawrence, Ewing said that he was not prepared to say whether or not he intended to support James…
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Date: July 1, 1858
Ewing’s correspondent, John F. King of Lawrence, had just given testimony in the Lane-Jenkins hearing that supported Lane’s testimony that he shot Gaius Jenkins in self-defense on June 3, 1858,…
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Date: 1865
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