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Account of killing of Larkin Milton Skaggs, a Quantrill raider
Collection — Folder: 1
Call Number: RH MS P118
Overview
Account of eye witness J. M. Henry of Lawrence who saw the killing of Skaggs; gives circumstantial account of capture and execution of Quantrill sic] raider.
Dates:
1915
Collection of George Ellis, First Lieutenant, Company I, 12th Kansas Infantry materials
Collection — Folder: 1
Call Number: RH MS P132
Overview
Biography of George Ellis written in 1953 by Howard C. Raynesford titled George Ellis, First Lieutenant, Company I, 12th Kansas Infantry. Ellis served as Lieutenant in the Kansas Infantry during the Civil War and was killed in battle. Ellis County and the town of Ellis in Kansas was named in his honor. Also included is a genealogy of the Ellis family, a photograph, and a photocopy of his military commission. Raynesford also gives a brief account of the...
Dates:
1862, 1953
Dark Command premiere newspaper clippings
Collection — Folder: 1
Call Number: RH MS P720
Overview
Dark Command, a film based on the novel by William Riley Burnett, relates the exploits of William Quantrill and his raid on Lawrence, Kansas, during the Civil War. With such movie stars as John Wayne, Walter Pidgeon, Claire Trevor and Roy Rogers, the film had its premiere showing in Lawrence on April 4, 1940. This collection is comprised of area newspaper clippings about the film's debut and preparations for the gala which included a parade, a ball and a reenactment of the burning of the Free...
Dates:
1940
Davis family papers
Collection
Call Number: RH MS 817
Overview
This collection, dating from 1880 to 1984, contains manuscript and published accounts of the family line of Hesper, Kansas pioneers Samuel Hunt Davis (1848-1938) and his wife Emma Stubbs Davis (1855-1942), whose Quaker family siblings and descendants figured prominently in the early history of Kansas, including the founding of Friends University at Wichita. Many of the accounts are written by the collection's donor, Mildred Davis Watson, a daughter of Samuel and Emma Davis and a long-time...
Dates:
1880 - 1984
Douglas County Historical Society manuscript collections
Collection
Call Number: RH MS 84
Overview
The Douglas County Historical Society was organized in 1933 by a group headed by Professor F. N. Raymond of the University of Kansas. This collection consists of manuscript and printed materials from a variety of individuals, businesses, and organizations associated with the history of Douglas County, Kansas, from its territorial settlment period of the 1850s through much of the 20th century, deposited by the Douglas County Historical Society with the Spencer Research Library.
Dates:
approximately 1789-1980s
Eberhart Reunion Association collection
Collection
Call Number: RH MS 832
Overview
These Eberhart family histories, photographs, genealogical charts, and minutes of the Eberhart Reunion Association document the family history of Joseph Eberhart and his wife Catherine (Kistler) Eberhart, who emigrated from Pennsylvania to Kansas Territory in 1854, becoming early settlers on a Douglas County claim located south of the Lawrence community. Records of the Association chronicle the Pennsylvania German ancestry of the Eberharts and the history of the Eberharts in Kansas.
Dates:
1888 - 1980
Edward Fitch Correspondence
Collection — Folder: 1
Call Number: RH MS P429
Overview
Edward Fitch came to Kansas in 1855 as a representative of the New England Emigrant Aid Society of Boston. This collection consist of letters of Sarah Fitch, Otis Wilmarth, Sarah's father, and also a short family history written by Sarah's daughter.
Dates:
1854-1870, 1928.
Elliott family papers
Collection
Call Number: RH MS 338
Overview
The Elliott family papers consist of correspondence, printed materials, photographs, and memorabilia from a family that settled in Lawrence, Douglas County, Kansas soon after it opened for Euro-American settlement in 1854.
Dates:
1838 - 1976
Freeman Collection of Hesper, Kansas history records
Collection
Call Number: RH MS 979
Overview
This collection contains various histories of the community of Hesper in Douglas County, Kansas. Included are histories of the Hesper Academy and the Hesper Friends Church, as well as biographies of Davis family members who were early Hesper settlers and witnesses to William Quantrill's August 1863 raid on the nearby town of Lawrence.
Dates:
1912 - 1977
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
Gurdon Grovenor's experience during Quantrill's Raid (Lawrence, Kan.) in 1863
Collection — Folder: 1
Call Number: RH MS P52
Dates:
August 21, 1863
Letter from George E. Young
Collection
Call Number: RH MS P620
Overview
This letter from George Edwin Young, a survivor of William Quantrill's raid on Lawrence, Kansas, August 21, 1863, was written to his father two days following the massacre. A typed and annotated transcription of the letter is included.
Dates:
August 23, 1863
Manuscript, "A Night of Terror"
Collection — Folder: 1
Call Number: RH MS P241
Overview
A night of terror. The recounting of events told by the widow of Duncan Allison, concerning Quantrill's Raid.
Dates:
1863
Mary Chesley Killam letter
Collection
Call Number: RH MS P855
Overview
This 7-page transcript of an undated letter from Mary Chesley Killam is a descriptive memoir of her pioneer years in Lawrence, Kansas from 1855 to 1863. Writing to a newspaper near her native village of Barnstead, New Hampshire, she recalls the appearance of Lawrence when she and her husband first arrived, incidents involving abolitionist John Brown as a frequent guest of their hotel, and pro-slavery attacks on free-state Lawrence, including William Quantrill's Lawrence massacre of August 1863.
Dates:
between 1880 and 1889
Newspaper clippings regarding Quantrill
Collection — Volume: 1-2
Call Number: RH MS E170
Overview
Two volumes of mounted newspaper clippings collected by Watson Library staff from numerous publications circa 1863-1963, on the life of William Clark Quantrill and the raid on Lawrence, Kansas, August 21, 1863. Volume one contains newspaper articles on the James brothers, Frank and Jesse and volume two contains articles on survivors and reunions of the Raid on Lawrence
Dates:
1945 - 1952
Quantrill's raid reminiscence
Collection — Folder: 1
Call Number: RH MS P467
Scope and Contents
This is the reminiscence of R.H. Miller about Quantrill's raid, involving his house at 1101 E. 19th Street in Lawrence, Kansas. It was written by William Miller in 1913.
Dates:
1913
Quantrill's Raid Tour
Collection — Folder: 1
Call Number: RH MS P941
Overview
Six photocopied sheets stapled together explaining a community event held near the sesquicentennial of Quantrill's Raid of 1863: a flashlight tour of the Oak Hill Cemetery in Lawrence, Kansas with re-enactors in select roles. The cemetery was established in 1865 to commemorate those individuals lost in the raid.
Dates:
August 16, 2013
Richard B. Sheridan papers
Collection
Call Number: RH MS 1468
Overview
The Richard B. Sheridan collection contains correspondence, academic writings (both of Dr. Sheridan and other authors), newspaper clippings, magazines, photographs, and University of Kansas course-related materials during his time as a professor at KU. A majority of the collection is centered around Dr. Sheridan's written works.
Dates:
1906 - 2005
Scrapbooks
Collection
Call Number: RH MS E77
Scope and Contents
The scrapbooks treat the history of Lawrence and the University of Kansas in general. Some of the clippings are obituaries of local residents, or local current events, e.g, the demonstrations by the Lawrence chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People in 1963.
Dates:
1949-1965
Telegram from W.M. Johnson to Lathrop Bullene
Collection — Folder: 1
Call Number: RH VLT MS P3
Overview
Telegram informing Lathrop Bullene of Quantrill's raid on Lawrence and of the safety of his house and friends. Dated Leavenworth, Kansas, August 22, 1863, to Lathrop Bullene, New York, in care of Chaflin Mellen and Co.
Dates:
August 22, 1863
Thomas Carney correspondence
Collection
Call Number: RH MS P299
Overview
The collection contents include correspondence written to and from Governor Carney.
Dates:
1862-1865, 1874
Thomas Carney family papers
Collection
Call Number: RH VLT MS 1161
Overview
Thomas A. Carney, 1824-1888, served as the second governor of the state of Kansas, and subsequently as the mayor of Leavenworth. The papers also include those of family members, especially his wife Rebecca Ann Canaday Carney. Their five sons were Edwin LeRoy, William Ware, Harry Canaday, Charles Thomas, and Frankie (died in infancy). There is correspondence, newspaper articles, mining certificates, land documents, speeches, and political memorabilia of the time.
Dates:
1832 - 1938
Typescript, "Quantrill's raid and its effects"
Collection — Folder: 1
Call Number: RH MS P4
Overview
Quantrill's raid and its effects. Address written for and delivered before judges and a committee of the Native Sons and Daughters of Kansas for the Quantrill's Raid Contest, January 28, 1932. [Lawrence?] 1933.
Dates:
January 28, 1932
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