Brooks, Paul R.
Person
Found in 1 Record:
Letters regarding Lawrence, Kansas history
Collection
Call Number: RH MS P812
Overview
These two letters, solicited by Lawrence, Kansas resident Paul R. Brooks, are from Samuel Newell Simpson and Samuel C. Smith--two of Kansas Territory's earliest settlers in the free-state cause. Simpson recounts his participation in the Battle of Franklin in 1856. Smith [a member of the New England Aid Company's first party of emigrants to Kansas Territory] comments on the Territory's political events of 1856.
Dates:
1903