Kenneth Spencer Research Library Archival Collections

This typescript by Burl D. Abraham lists his Abraham family line of descent from Mordecai Abraham (1796-1871) of Virginia to Butler County, Kansas residents Richard Roy Abraham (1880-1947) and Cora Belle (Metcalfe) Abraham (1893-1968).

The genealogy of Alfred Curtiss and of his wife Clara Haskins Curtiss of, their descendants and some of their relatives. Ransomville, N.Y., 1924 written by their daughter, Elizabeth Curtiss. The collection also includes two images, one each of Alfred and Clara Curtiss.

Typescript of "Ancestors and Descendants of Frances Christina McCreath Taylor," written in Lawrence, Kansas in 1965 by author, Frances Christina McCreath Taylor. Description of the genealogy of Taylor from 1811 to 1965.

The Banks family collection consists of papers from long-time Kansas City residents Wade B. Banks, Jr., his wife Blanche, and their family. Most of the collection focuses on Blanche's involvement in the First African Methodist Episcopal Church (FAME), research into family geneology, work as principal of Shawnee Mission North High School, correspondence, speeches, reference material, and papers concerning civil rights in the United States.

This collection consists of a photocopy of a Barteldes family tree on a 24x27" page. The complete title is "The Barteldes Family Tree compiled by Bernhard Christoph Barteldes-1791," though the time period covered in the tree is 1529-1963. Friedo and F.W. Barteldes, included in the tree, were the proprietors of the Barteldes Seed Company, founded in Lawrence, Kansas in the late 1800s.

The Benjamin LeRoy “Roy” Love collection includes videos of storyteller, songwriter, and farmer Roy Love of Kickapoo, Kansas, who lived to be 104. Stories include old farming practices, his segregated schooling, and his father’s enslavement by his own white father. The papers in the collection are memories of neighbors and photocopies of historical documents gathered by the grandson of a neighbor, Michael-Lee O’Brien Brockhouse, as well as a song and some letters written by Roy Love.

This collection consists of a family bible belonging to the Bullene family, an early family in Lawrence, Kansas. The bible contains a family record with genealogical details about members in the Bullene and Ferris families from 1825-1926. The volume includes some loose items tipped in.

This is a photostat of page 313 of the census with names beginning with "Squirrel, Amwsy (?)" and ending with "Silverheel, George". Among the persons enumerated are the Luke Sixkiller family, his wife, Emma, and their four children, Mary, Mattie, Lewis, and Myrtle. The Sixkillers of Delaware District were undoubtedly related to Samuel Sixkiller, who was High Sheriff of the Cherokee Nation in 1875 and 1876.

Copy of census taken in 1862, including sex and age of enrollees. The census roll was approved May 9, 1864 and the library's copy was made Apr. 28, 1902.

The collection contains a trove of information regarding Corinne Patterson's lineage and research into her genealogy. Some correspondence materials are also in the collection, as are some booklets and photographs.

The Bass/Bayley collection consists primarily of the correspondence and papers of Elisha and Elizabeth Eulalia Bass and their relatives. The Bass family were New Englanders who settled in pre-Civil War Texas near present-day Brownsville, Cameron County. They later located to California and Colorado.

This collection includes records of the Douglas County Genealogical Society in Kansas dating from its founding in 1975 to the early 2000s. The collection includes meeting minutes, financial records and treasurer's reports, and other administrative records for the organization. There are also a number of the organization's quarterly newsletters, "The Pioneer," including a small history of their logo and information on the numerous workshops and seminars they have held in Lawrence, KansasS.

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.

Names of electors in the six wards of Lawrence, Kan. for the April 5, 1887 election, the first election in which women could vote. Also lists number of votes each candidate received. Photocopy of records located at the Kansas State Historical Society.

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.

This project originated as part of the course requirements for History 8, United States History, 1865 to the Present, taught by William Juhnke, in an effort to build a database related to in-migration to Kansas. The collection has since been added to by Mark Rose.

Photocopies of Chaffin-Shorb pedigree chart and of Baker-Brenner pedigree chart.

The collection of Fay Stainbrook Talley, a longtime Lawrence, Kansas, resident, contains primarily photocopies of reference material for genealogical research, Talley family genealogical information, and materials relating to her participation in various clubs and organizations including the Lawrence Flower Club, Douglas County Historical Society, Rebekah Lodge, and Pilot Club.

This collection contains family memorobilia, including photographs, biographies, correspondence, newspaper clippings, and scrapbooks dating from the 19th through the early 21st centuries for the Harrell and Willey families, who settled in Kansas during the territorial era and early statehood.

This collection contains genealogical notes, author unknown, regarding the Hiat-Hett genealogy, members of whom settled in Douglas County, Kansas. This collection also contains two matted photographs, one of a member of the Hiatt family, dated as 1879, and an undated photo of an oil well from the Topeka Union Oil and Gas Syndicate.