Whitaker family

Overview

The Alderson and Whitaker Families collection contains materials related to both the Alderson and Whitaker families, though it primarily focuses on Betty and Donald Alderson. It includes cards, correspondence, photographs, news clippings, datebooks, planners, and materials related to both Betty and Donald Alderson’s interests. Other family members found in this collection include Thomas Whitney Alderson, Marcia Alderson, and Susan Alderson.

Overview The J.B. Whitaker collection contains primarily 19th century property deeds, Civil War pension claims, and related correspondence of James Barnes Whitaker, a surveyor and early settler in Kansas Territory and a pioneer in the early development of Shawnee County and the city of Topeka. Included are papers from his partnership in the 1860s with Alfred L. Winans in the Topeka law firm of Winans & Whitaker. The collection also includes the first three volumes of a memoir by Whitaker's...