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The Jones Store Company newspaper clippings

 Collection — Folder: 1
Call Number: RH MS P415
Overview

Includes a supplement and newspapers clippings from the Kansas City Star's September 27, 1981 issue about the 94th anniversary of The Jones Store Company. Features stories titled, "The Jones Store Co. Celebrates its 94th Anniversary," "Historical Sketch of This Store and its Future," "What Makes The Jones Store Co. Special," "The Many Faces of The Jones Store Co.," and "Indomitable J. Logan Jones."

Dates: September 27, 1981

"The Migrations of John B. Kelso"

 Collection — Folder: 1
Call Number: RH MS P1004
Overview "The Migrations of John B. Kelso" is a 29-page typed transcription of Kelso's account of migrating to the American west, working, and looking for a good place to settle. He moved from Indiana to Missouri, Iowa, Kansas, Colorado, and then to Oregon and Washington between 1853 and 1877. He was in territorial Kansas in the 1850s and became involved in the free state/pro-slavery violence, serving on the free state side. He also describes encountering Native Americans, including the Wade Comanche...
Dates: September 1853-October 1877 (transcribed 2003)

The weakness of Kansas Claims Associations: a ramification of their protectiveness

 Collection — Folder: 1
Call Number: RH MS P99
Overview

Paper presented in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the Seminar American History 306. Includes bibliography.

Dates: 1959

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

Thurman Forrest Railsback legal papers

 Collection
Call Number: RH MS 147
Overview

Thurman Forrest Railsback was an attorney in Kansas City, Kansas from 1905-1956. Railsback went on to serve as assistant attorney general and as acting judge in the Wyandotte County District Court. This collection of his papers are primarily civil case files from 1930-1956, consisting of documents of public record only.

Dates: 1930 - 1956

True history of the Kansas wars

 Collection — Volume: 1
Call Number: RH MS D204
Scope and Contents

True history of the Kansas wars: and their origin, progress and incidents.../ By 0. N. Merrill; illustrated with beautifully-colored engravings; also a portrait of the author.--Cincinnati: J. R. Telfer, 1856.

Dates: 1856

Typescript of Neosho

 Collection — folders: 1-4
Call Number: RH MS P14
Overview

Typescript manuscript of Davidson's book, inscription page, and cover of dust jacket.

Dates: Other: Before 1966

Virginia Ricard papers

 Collection
Call Number: RH MS 1166
Overview

The Virginia Ricard Papers are those of a native Kansan who attended Dunbar School in Salina, Kansas and later became an educator.

Dates: 1922-1927, 1951-1992

William Clarke Quantrill correspondence

 Collection
Call Number: RH MS 75
Overview This collection includes letters from William Clarke Quantrill to his mother, Caroline Clarke Quantrill, preceding and up to the raid of Lawrence, Kansas in 1863. Also included in the collection is the correspondence of William W. Scott, editor of the Iron Valley Reporter and friend of Mrs. Quantrill, who attempted to help Mrs. Quantrill obtain the truth about her son. This correspondence consists of letters between Scott and people who allegedly had known...
Dates: 1855 - 1906

William Elsey Connelley papers

 Collection
Call Number: RH MS 2
Overview

Correspondence, research notes, interviews, manuscript drafts, and photographs, covering the years 1883-1914, from an early Kansas historian.

Dates: 1883 - 1914

William Whites Graves papers

 Collection
Call Number: RH MS 922
Overview

The papers of St. Paul, Kansas newspaper editor and historian William Whites Graves contain research files from which he authored books concerning the history of the Catholic Church in early Kansas, including the history of Osage Mission (which later became the community of St. Paul), the Kickapoo Tribe in Kansas, and the Greenbush Parish of Crawford County, Kansas. Included are Graves' correspondence files, which include family correspondence, memorabilia, and photographs.

Dates: 1857 - 1951

Woman's Christian Temperance Union records

 Collection
Call Number: RH MS P817
Overview

These records of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union of Kansas consist primarily of forms, printed leaflets, and instructions to members for conducting fund drives.

Dates: 1918

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Lawrence Massacre, Lawrence, Kan., 1863 7
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Names
Quantrill, William Clarke, 1837-1865 10
Brown, John, 1800-1859 8
Connelley, William Elsey, 1855-1930 7
Lane, James Henry (James Henry), 1814-1866 7
Robinson, Charles, 1818-1894 5
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Robinson, Sara T. L. (Sara Tappan Lawrence), 1827-1911 5
University of Kansas 5
New England Emigrant Aid Company 4
Ingalls, John James, 1833-1900 3
Kansas. Adjutant General's Office 3
Kansas. Militia 3
Lawrence, Amos Adams, 1814-1886 3
Blackmar, Frank W. (Frank Wilson), 1854-1931 2
Brown, Frederick, 1830-1856 2
Carney, Thomas, 1824-1888 2
Delaware Tribe of Indians 2
Douglass Hospital (Kansas City, Kan.) 2
Elliott, Robert Gaston 2
Hale, Edward Everett, 1822-1909 2
Kansas Committee for the Humanities 2
Kansas Territory. Governor (1857-1858 : Denver) 2
Lawrence Hidden Valley Committee, Inc. 2
Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 2
McAllister, Lucy 2
Populist Party (Kan.) 2
Reeder, Andrew H. (Andrew Horatio), 1807-1864 2
Remple, Mariana Lohrenz, 1912-2000 2
Stuart Lutz Historic Documents, Inc. 2
Ware, Eugene F., 1841-1911 2
Abbott, James Burnett, 1818-1897 1
Acme Manganese Mining Company (Kansas City, Kan.) 1
Adair, Samuel Lyle, 1811-1898 1
Allen, Henry Justin, 1868-1950 1
Andrews, John Albion 1
Anthony , George Tobey, 1824-1896 1
Anthony family 1
Anthony, D. R., Daniel Read, 1824-1904 1
Anthony, Emily Frances, 1839-1898 1
Anthony, Lewis Williams, 1825-1903 1
Armitage, Katie 1
Armstrong, Robert Mercer, 1841-1927 1
Austin family. 1
Austin, Mary (Mary Hunter), 1868-1934 1
Baldwin, Royal 1
Banks, E. V., 1836?-1873 1
Barnes family 1
Barnes, Nellie 1
Beebe, George Monroe, 1836-1927 1
Beeson family. 1
Beeson, Mary Frances, 1848-1943 1
Bentley, Josephine L. 1
Bibb, David D. 1
Bickerton, Thomas, 1816?- 1
Black Kettle, -1868 (Cheyenne chief) 1
Blaine, James Gillespie, 1830-1893 1
Bodle, Lynne 1
Bonner, Thomas Neville 1
Bookworm and Silverfish 1
Booth, Edw. 1
Boss of the Bay Mining Company 1
Bourne, Wm. Oland (William Oland), 1819-1901 1
Branscomb, Charles H. 1
Branson, Jacob 1
Bridwell, Arthur 1
Brigham, Lalla Maloy 1
Brooks, Paul R., Mrs. 1
Buffalo Bill, 1846-1917 1
Cable, Eleazer 1
Capper, Arthur, 1865-1951 1
Carey, Henry L. 1
Carman, J. Neale (Justice Neale), 1897-1972 1
Catholic Church 1
Cheesman, D. W. (David W.) 1
Christiancy, Isaac Peckham, 1812-1890 1
Clanton, O. Gene 1
Cleveland, Grover, 1837-1908 1
Cleveland, Marshall 1
Cody family. 1
Cody, Elvira Ruth 1
Cody, Joseph A., 1814-1878 1
Collamore, George W., 1818-1863 1
Coney, Patrick H. 1
Council of Social Agencies (Lawrence, Kan.) 1
Crawford, George Addison, 1827-1891 1
Crawford, S. J. (Samuel Johnson), 1835-1913 1
Crawford, Samuel R. 1
Crosswhite, Craig S. 1
Cunningham, Arthur William 1
Curtis, Samuel Ryan, 1805-1866 1
Curtiss family 1
Curtiss, Alfred, 1823-1867 1
Curtiss, Clara, 1831-1897 1
Curtiss, Elizabeth, active 1924 1
Darbe, Bert E. 1
Darbe, Claude L. 1
Davidson, Clyde O. 1
Davis family. 1
Davis, Emma Stubbs, 1885-1942 1
Davis, Jonathan McMillan, 1871-1943 1
Davis, Samuel Hunt, 1848-1938 1
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