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D.C. Barrett correspondence with a manuscript biography of Samuel Ira Munger
Collection
Call Number: RH VLT MS P4
Overview
Correspondence with representatives of the American Settlement Company, a New York-based joint stock company, 1854-1856; with a manuscript biography of Samuel Ira Munger, dated January 1, 1877.
Dates:
1854-1856, January 1, 1877
G. W. Paddock diary transcript
Collection
Call Number: RH MS P857
Overview
This transcript of the diary of Methodist Episcopal minister George W. Paddock chronicles his journey from New York State to Kansas Territory in 1857 and his traveling ministry in the territory to 1861. Transcribed from Paddock's 149-page diary in holdings of the Kansas State Historical Society, it contains his descriptions of frontier life, the settlers and Native Americans to whom he preached, the many settlements which he visited, and hostilities in the territory's free-state conflict. ...
Dates:
1857-1861, 1901