Lewis Timothy Litchfield papers
Overview
This collection includes Lewis Timothy Litchfield's diary, 1854-1855, containing an account of his trip and settlement in Lawrence, Kansas, as part of the second Emigrant Aid party, and a certificate presented to Litchfield from his English study at Cambridge High School in Massachusetts.
Dates
- Creation: 1854 - 1855
Creator
- Litchfield, Lewis Timothy, 1838-1861 (Person)
Conditions Governing Access
No access restrictions.
Conditions Governing Use
Spencer Library staff may determine use restrictions dependent on the physical condition of manuscript materials.
Biography of Lewis Timothy Litchfield (1838-1861)
Lewis (sometimes Louis in newspaper accounts) Timothy Litchfield was born in Massachusetts in September 1838. He went with his family to settle in Lawrence, Kansas in 1854 as part of the second party of the New England Emigrant Aid Company. The rest of his family died in Lawrence that winter.
In 1859, Litchfield married Anna S. Carter; they had a daughter that same year, named Alice Lewette. In June 1861, Litchfield enlisted with the First Kansas Infantry and was made first sergeant in Company D under Captain Swift's command. He was killed in action at the Battle of Wilson's Creek in Missouri on August 10, 1861. His widow remarried to Allen Joseph Phillips and died in 1910; Alice Lewette Litchfield, who had always had poor health, died in 1902.
[Information retrieved from findagrave.com.]
Extent
1 volume (1 volume + 1 folder) : Volume is unpaged and has leather covering, written on blue paper, using both pencil and pen.
Language of Materials
English
Physical Location
RH VLT MS B6
Physical Location
RH MS P33
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Gift, Charles Tankersley, 1957/58.
Genre / Form
Geographic
Topical
- Title
- Guide to the Lewis Timothy Litchfield Collection
- Subtitle
- Lewis Timothy Litchfield papers
- Author
- Finding aid prepared by lgg, June 1972 and ecs, 20 October, 1980. Finding aid encoded by mg, 2004. Finding aid revised by mwh, 2020.
- Date
- 2004
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- Finding aid written in English.
- Finding aid permalink
- http://hdl.handle.net/10407/3515358385
- Preferred citation
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Lewis Timothy Litchfield papers, Kansas Collection, RH MS VLT B6, Kenneth Spencer Research Library, University of Kansas
Repository Details
Part of the University of Kansas. Kenneth Spencer Research Library Repository