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Samuel Knox business papers

 Collection
Call Number: RH MS 22

Overview

The correspondence in this collection is primarily concerned with land sales, in Kansas, Nebraska and other states, financial matters, excursion trips to the Western states, and immigration to Kansas and Nebraska. Knox's legal papers are also included. Among Knox's correspondents were soldiers fighting in the Civil War in Kansas and Illinois volunteer regiments, his family (including a family history), requests for information regarding land in Kansas and Nebraska, and responses to Knox's requests to teachers in Illinois for the names of heads of families in their districts. There are also 4,500 post cards which were bank deposit notices, notifications of receipt of Knox's circulars, and requests for additional information about lands for sale, etc. addressed to Knox.

Dates

  • Creation: 1852 - 1888

Creator

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 Samuel Miles Knox

Knox, with his son, S. F., was a land passenger agent in the Land Department of the Union Pacific Railroad Company in Princeton, Illinois. He was also an attorney and probate judge.

Extent

2.5 Linear Feet (3 document cases + 5 card file boxes)

Language of Materials

English

Physical Location

RH MS 22

Other Finding Aids

NUCMC: MS 80-378

Immediate Source of Acquisition

Purchase, Smoky Hill Booksellers, 1966.

Separated Materials

Received as part of this collection, but cataloged separately are records of freight received at the Beatrice, Nebraska station, Burlington and Missouri River Railroad Company (see Burlington and Missouri River Railroad Company [RH MS G17]) and a map of Gove and Sheridan counties, Kansas (see the Kansas Collection card catalog [RH Map P15]).

Subject

Title
Guide to the Samuel Miles Knox Collection
Subtitle
Samuel Knox business papers
Author
Finding aid compiled by km, July, 1973; lgg July, 1973. Finding aid encoded by mg, 2004.
Date
2004
Description rules
Describing Archives: A Content Standard
Language of description
Finding aid written in <language encodinganalog="language">English.</language>
Finding aid permalink
http://hdl.handle.net/10407/8327645098
Preferred citation
Samuel Miles Knox Collection, Kansas Collection, RH MS 22, Kenneth Spencer Research Library, University of Kansas

Repository Details

Part of the University of Kansas. Kenneth Spencer Research Library Repository

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