Box 1
Container
Call Number: RH MS 817
Contains 38 Results:
Mildred Davis Watson handwritten autobiography (8 pages), [July 1984]
File — Box: 1, Folder: 1
Dates:
[July 1984]
Correspondence and clippings regarding Mildred Davis Watson (YMCA work, 1933; appointment as Douglas County Social Welfare Director, 1937; retirement, July 1955)
File — Box: 1, Folder: 2
Chronological summary of Davis family history from 1630 (John Hill family) to 1879 (Davis family)
File — Box: 1, Folder: 3
Reminiscence of Douglas County resident Clifford Hiram Nowlin (1863-19__), (Thomas family); also Hesper Academy (written 1955)
File — Box: 1, Folder: 4
Adela Hunt Davis: a Kansas pioneer mother," by a granddaughter, Mildred Davis Watson." Lawrence, Kan, 1970. 29 pages
File — Box: 1, Folder: 5
Marriage announcement of Anna Marian Davis [daughter of Mr. and Mrs. S. H. Davis] and Lloyd Thomas, 1905
File — Box: 1, Folder: 6
Dates:
1905
Biographical sketch of Roxana Davis (1855-1904) [sister of Samuel Hunt Davis]
File — Box: 1, Folder: 7
Samuel Hunt Davis and Emma Stubbs Davis, married December 24, 1877, by Mildred Davis Watson. Lawrence, Kan, 1977. (17 pages)
File — Box: 1, Folder: 8
Emma Stubbs Davis (Mrs. Samuel Hunt Davis); her ancestors and family, by Mildred Davis Watson. (7 pages)
File — Box: 1, Folder: 9
Samuel Hunt Davis and Emma Stubbs Davis documents
File — Box: 1, Folder: 10
"History of Hesper, Kansas," by Mildred Davis Watson (4-page typescript) and photocopy of "The Hesper Community," by Michael W. Mahaffey (13-page typescript, 1975)
File — Box: 1, Folder: 11
"Hesper Settlement; a history of Quaker Settlement at Hesper, Kansas," by [S.] Lindley Stanley
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"First Hesper, Kansas Lyceum, 1859"
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History of Hesper Academy, 1884-1914.
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Hesper Academy: four year accredited high school, 1884-1912.
File — Box: 1, Folder: 15
Hesper Academy news clippings (repairs, demolition), 1938, 1939
File — Box: 1, Folder: 16
Dates:
1938, 1939
Hesper Academy bell dedication
File — Box: 1, Folder: 17
Hesper Academy commencement program, 1899, and motto
File — Box: 1, Folder: 18
Hesper Academy official charter, June 9, 1884, and articles of incorporation
File — Box: 1, Folder: 19
One-page typescript and notes regarding deed of land for Hesper Academy, November 17, 1884
File — Box: 1, Folder: 20
Dates:
November 17, 1884
Copy of stockholder notice and meeting minutes regarding sale and dissolution of Hesper Academy, 1938 - 1941
File — Box: 1, Folder: 21
Dates:
1938 - 1941
"Fortune in a Box; the story of James M. Davis," by Laurence Holmes (1979) and typescript of 1937 speech regarding James M. Davis as a founder of Friends University
File — Box: 1, Folder: 22
"The Route Quantril Took Coming to Lawrence, Kansas, August 21, 1863" by Mildred Davis Watson
File — Box: 1, Folder: 23
"History of Territorial Lecompton."
File — Box: 1, Folder: 24
Notes and letters regarding historical markers in Kansas
File — Box: 1, Folder: 25