In these family papers of Topeka, Kansas resident James A. McHenry, Jr. are biographical records of his great-great-grandfather J. C. Hebbard, a prominent pioneer in territorial Kansas and in early state history. A newspaper article that Hebbard wrote about the Burleigh family is also incuded. At RH MS-P P859 is a portrait of Hebbard and his wife Rosetta. Included in the papers is a published statement regarding the United Nations by McHenry's grandmother Lena Baxter Schenck.