Washington-Kemp Family Papers
Overview
The Washington-Kemp Family Papers are those of a longtime Kansas family. They focus mainly on the Mayhew and the Bassett family branches located in Southeast Kansas.
Dates
- Creation: 1887-1933, 1983
Creator
- Washington-Kemp, Rose A., 1933-2005 (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 Washington-Kemp Family
Henry and Elizabeth Mayhew of Labette County, Kansas had three children, Uriah S., Hezekiah, and Perrenial Sherwood. A descendent, Anna Elizabeth Mayhew, married Phillip Henderson Bassett. The Bassett's had six children: Edgar Roscoe, Lela Mae, Everett Irvin, Robert Louis, Helen Fay, and Bernece Louise.
Another Mayhew descendent, Rosa, married into the Jackson family. Her daughter Verna Mae married Rufus Correll Washington; the Washington's had six children: Winston Ellsworth, Reginald Cecil, Vernon Roosevelt, Dorothy, Willard, and Rose.
Rose A. Washington was born 4 May 1933 in Kansas City, Kansas. Beginning in the first Eisenhower administration, she worked in the US Department of State in Washington, DC. In 1970, she went to work at the US Department of Labor and, thirteen years later, in May 1983, she was appointed the Regional Administrator of the Labor Department's Women's Bureau. Rose A. Washington married William H. Kemp, Jr.
Rose Washington-Kemp had two children, Kenneth H. Washington and Deborah R. Washington Kemp. She died 19 November 2005.
Extent
2 folders
Language of Materials
English
Scope and Contents
The Washington-Kemp Family Papers date from 1887-1933 and 1983. They consist of deeds, wills, property information, correspondence, and a family cookbook. The two folders are arranged alphabetically.
Physical Location
RH MS P561
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Gift, Rose A. Washington-Kemp, 1986.
Subject
- Washington-Kemp, Rose A., 1933-2005 (Person)
- Mayhew family. (Family)
- Bassett family. (Family)
- Washington family. (Family)
- Kemp family. (Family)
- Title
- Guide to the Washington-Kemp Family Collection
- Subtitle
- Washington-Kemp Family Papers
- Author
- Finding aid prepared by mbw, 2009; revised by eear, 2013 Finding aid encoded by mbw, 2009
- Date
- 2009
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- Finding aid written in<language encodinganalog="language">English</language>
- Sponsor
- Support for the processing of this Collection was provided by the Dana and Sue Anderson African American Collecting Program Endowment Fund.
- Finding aid permalink
- http://hdl.handle.net/10407/0409556327
- Preferred citation
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Washington-Kemp Family Collection, Kansas Collection, RH MS P561, Kenneth Spencer Research Library, University of Kansas Libraries
Repository Details
Part of the University of Kansas. Kenneth Spencer Research Library Repository