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Smith, Alvin (Resident of Ohio)

 Person

Found in 1 Record:

Joseph F. Smith letters

 Collection
Call Number: RH MS P788
Overview

Three family letters written by Franklin County, Kansas settler Joseph F. Smith in the first year of his arrival in Kansas Territory and in the first two years of Kansas statehood. An emigrant from Iowa, Smith writes to his brother Alvin Smith of Ohio regarding the local weather, crops, prices of provisions, the threat of secessionists, and his hopes for purchase of land from the Native American reserve on which he works in winter months.

Dates: 1860 - 1862