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Box 1

 Container
Call Number: RH MS 1582

Contains 42 Results:

"Daniel Read Anthony", 1902 - 1948

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 1
Scope and Contents

Bound and mounted newspaper clippings about Daniel Read Anthony, his son, grandson, and great grandson from numerous newspapers including the Kansas City Star, February 23, 1902; The Leavenworth Times, November 12, 1904; and The Graduate Magazine, January 1948.

Dates: 1902 - 1948

Biographical sketches of Colonel D.R. Anthony from the United States Biographical Dictionary and Portrait Gallery, 1890 - 1891

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 2
Scope and Contents

Includes a letter requesting a written sketch to be edited for the "National Cyclopaedia of American Biography," a prospectus booklet of the same, and 2 sewn copies of a biographical sketch of Anthony from the United States Biographical Dictionary and Portrait Gallery.

Dates: 1890 - 1891

Various papers belonging to Daniel Read Anthony, 1870 - 1904

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 3
Scope and Contents

Includes a “Regular Republican Ticket,” a small printed ticket naming the Republicans in the election from an envelope marked 1870; an 1882 card advertising Havens flour; a news clipping for Anthony and Havens Insurance Agents; an 1889 ticket to the Republican National Committee; a 1900 Western Union Telegraph book; and a 1904 expense statement packet.

Dates: 1870 - 1904

Unidentified Anthony family letters, 1933, 1934, 1938

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 5
Scope and Contents

Includes two letters addressed to Mrs. D.R. Anthony sent in 1933 and 1934. D. R. Anthony’s wife, Anna O. Anthony, died in 1930, so it is likely that these letters were written to Bessie Havens Anthony, Mrs. D.R. Anthony, Jr.

Also includes a post card from “SMH [?]” to “Cousin Maude” and a booklet, “Notes on Famous Churches and Abbeys, St. Bartholomew the Great, Smithfield.” The post card is addressed to Maude Anthony Koehler, Daniel Read Anthony Jr.’s sister.

Dates: 1933, 1934, 1938

Manhattan Life Insurance policy papers, 1856 - 1952

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 6
Scope and Contents

Includes life insurance notes belonging to Daniel Read Anthony from 1856-1865 along with a 1952 letter from Daniel Read Anthony III regarding that policy.

Dates: 1856 - 1952

Miscellaneous items, 1863 - 1880

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 7
Scope and Contents Includes a flier advertising Hotel Riverside in Cambridgeboro, Pennsylvania; checks from the Insley, Shire and Company and the First and Second National Banks in Leavenworth, Kansas; ten pages of handwritten stories about the history of Jefferson County written sometime after 1860; an 1866 tax warrant; an 1877 Missouri Valley Life Insurance Company certificate signed by JJ Jones; correspondence from the Missouri, Kansas and Texas Railway; and a metal “A” sticker. It is unclear to whom...
Dates: 1863 - 1880

Daniel Read Anthony correspondence, 1889

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 12
Scope and Contents

Letters deal with livestock and investments as well as a suit brought by the Anthony family against the American Glucose Company. Some letters are political in nature, such as one from John Rankin asking Anthony to endorse him for a position at Haskell Institute in Lawrence, Kansas and another petitioning a veteran’s placement in the Leavenworth Soldier’s Home.

Dates: 1889

Daniel Read Anthony correspondence, 1890

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 13-15
Scope and Contents

The correspondence mainly deals with Anthony’s farming, insurance and newspaper businesses. Some political topics are interspersed, such as the Leavenworth Times criticism of certain Republican candidates and support of more prohibition enforcement.

Also included are letters from Anthony’s brother, J.M. Anthony at Fort Scott, Kansas, and an invitation to a banquet in honor of the 70th birthday of his sister, Susan B. Anthony, in Washington D.C.

Dates: 1890

Correspondence from the Associated Press to D.R. Anthony and Kansas and Missouri Associated Press documents, 1883 - 1891

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 16
Scope and Contents Includes "Private instructions to correspondents of the Associated Press,” written by Wm. Henry Smith on January 1, 1891; a small booklet containing the Charter and By-Laws of the Kansas and Missouri Associated Press revised January 31, 1883; and three booklets of the minutes of the annual meetings of the Kansas and Missouri Associated Press held in Kansas City on May 7, 1888, Topeka Kansas on May 30, 1890, and Leavenworth, Kansas on May 6, 1891; along with various correspondence about...
Dates: 1883 - 1891

Leavenworth Times correspondence, 1886 - 1905

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 18
Scope and Contents

Also includes an 1882 booklet from the United Press.

Dates: 1886 - 1905

Statements by D.R. Anthony against newspaper unions, 1871

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 10
Scope and Contents

Includes a letter labeled by DRA III “A patent statement by Col. Anthony on efforts to unionize the Times.”

Dates: 1871

Leavenworth Times financial papers, 1887, 1890

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 19-20
Scope and Contents

Includes a handwritten statement of the profits of the Leavenworth Times from 1871-1887 and financial papers for the year 1890.

Dates: 1887, 1890

Letters to Paul E. Havens from his wife Matilda “Tillie” Havens, July 19, [1877] – August 8, 1877

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 26
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Also includes a note presumably written by Daniel Read Anthony III that says “Letters from Tillie Moore who married Paul E. Havens – your great, great grandfather,” though no letters were found from Tillie to Paul before they were married.

Dates: July 19, [1877] – August 8, 1877

“Mother Goose Melodies: New Edition” by Paul E. Havens [coloring book using racist language and imagery], 1869

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 27
Scope and Contents A hand-painted color tracing book presumably written and drawn by Paul E. Havens, with his name on the cover. The writing bemoans the Kansas Immigration Society and Farmer Havens' inability to profit from his farm. Havens uses a racial slur to refer to African American workers on the farm, in addition to depicting an African American body labeled "Armstrong" used as fishing bait. The book has tracing paper over each page so that a child can trace the drawings and words, a few of...
Dates: 1869

Letters to Paul E. Havens from his brother Eugene's daughter Nellie Havens, April 2, 1872 - September 25, 1879

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 30
Scope and Contents

These letters imply that Paul Havens was in charge of his neice Nellie's finances after her father Eugene's death in 1864.

Dates: April 2, 1872 - September 25, 1879