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Academic Papers of Debora K. Brown

 Collection
Call Number: RH MS P395
Overview

2 academic papers by Debora K. Brown.

Dates: 1980

Anthony and Havens family papers

 Collection
Call Number: RH MS 555
Overview

Colonel Daniel Read Anthony and Paul Egbert Havens were leading businessmen and public officials in the early history of Leavenworth, Kansas. Their families intersected through the 1897 marriage of Anthony's son, Daniel Read Anthony, Jr., and Havens' daughter Elizabeth. The Anthony family papers consists primarily of career papers of Colonel Anthony, his son, and his grandson, Daniel Read Anthony III. The Havens papers are comprised largely of personal family correspondence.

Dates: 1828 - 1999

Clippings regarding the early settlement of the city and county of Leavenworth and of early Kansas governors

 Collection — Volume: 1
Call Number: RH MS C66
Overview

Clippings, 1889-90, published in the Leavenworth Advertiser and Western Life, successor to the Leavenworth Advertiser.

Dates: Date Not Yet Determined

Correspondence from Marcus Parrott to his Dayton, Ohio family members

 Collection
Call Number: RH MS VLT 554
Overview

The collection contains 34 letters written by Marcus Junius Parrott to his Dayton, Ohio family members. The letters date from April 7, 1851 to April 28, 1862, and are arranged chronologically. Also included in the collection are a brief handwritten statement by [Laurette?] Parrott [Irvin?] regarding the collection content, and an offprint of a published 1865 sermon by Phillips Brooks, delivered at the time of Abraham Lincoln's death.

Dates: 1851 - 1862

Dodge and Miller family letters

 Collection
Call Number: RH MS P974
Overview

This collection consists of six letters among three different generations of the Dodge family while residing in Buffalo, New York; at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas; and in Emporia, Kansas. The letters mostly focus on family news, including marriage announcements and the illnesses and deaths of family members.

Dates: 1832 - 1884

Ella Dewey Woart letter to her grandmother

 Collection
Call Number: RH MS P830
Overview

This six-page letter was written in the spring of 1874 from Fort Leavenworth, Kansas by Ella Dewey Woart, daughter of John Woart, post chaplain at the fort. Having arrived at Fort Leavenworth with her parents the previous fall, Ella writes to her grandmother, describing the appearance of the fort, her family's quarters, her father's work, and the inhabitants at the fort and in the nearby town of Leavenworth.

Dates: May 19, 1874

Episodes in Kansas history

 Collection — Folder: 1
Call Number: RH MS P27
Overview

Episodes in Kansas history; three incidents included in The Gun and the Gospel. Lawrence? ca. 1896?

Dates: approximately 1896?

F. B. Silkman letter

 Collection — Folder: 1
Call Number: RH MS P969
Overview This collection consists of a single letter written by F. B. Silkman to his father from Leavenworth City, Kansas Territory. Silkman indicates that he cannot leave due to nobody else being available to mind the store; discusses the recent local election, indicating that three Pennsylvanians were elected and Thomas T. Slocum was elected mayor; proslavery men from Missouri pulled their man from the election when it became clear he would be defeated and some of them had gone to the Missouri...
Dates: September 5, 1855

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

James Henry Lane Papers

 Collection
Call Number: RH MS 28
Overview

The collection includes correspondence, notes and source material, clippings, maps, photographs, documents, and other related items, dating primarily from 1841-1923.

Dates: 1841 - 1923

Josephine Few family papers

 Collection
Call Number: RH MS P813
Overview Josephine A. Few's grandfather, Dr. Samuel F. Few, emigrated from Virginia to Kansas Territory's town of Leavenworth in the early 1850s. These family papers contain several of his printed invitations to Leavenworth social events, a news clipping regarding the Few family farm near Leavenworth, and a letter from University of Kansas Professor E. H. S. Bailey regarding the water quality of the farm's mineral springs. Included are Josephine Few's descriptions of Dr. Few's ancestry and his life...
Dates: 1868 - 1958

Letter from David Sterrett (Sterrettania, Erie County, Penn.) to his son Innis

 Collection — Folder: 1
Call Number: RH MS P612
Overview

An 1856 letter from Sterrettania, Pennsylvania resident David Sterrett to his son Innis (David Brice Innis Sterrett), containing news of his other sons, including Andrew Jackson Sterrett of Leavenworth (Kansas Territory).

Dates: November 13, 1856

Letters to the banking firm of Hussey, Dahler & Company from Leavenworth, Kansas businesses

 Collection
Call Number: RH MS P614
Overview

A collection of seventeen letters written to the banking firm of Hussey, Dahler & Company from Leavenworth, Kansas businesses (primarily those engaged in banking and insurance), 1867-1870.

Dates: 1867 - 1870

Lewis A. Waterman letters

 Collection
Call Number: RH MS 515
Overview

The Lewis A. Waterman Collection contains twenty-nine letters that were written by him from 1864 to 1865 while serving in the United States Signal Corps, stationed chiefly at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas. The collection also includes cartes de visites of Waterman's Signal Corps comrades at Fort Leavenworth.

Dates: 1864 - 1865

Papers of Arthur B. Havens

 Collection
Call Number: RH MS 49
Overview

Business forms and legal documents related to business and professional interests of Arthur B. Havens, a real estate broker and collection agent in the early history of Leavenworth, Kansas. The papers include documents of the Kansas Immigration Society and communications from Leavenworth newspaperman Daniel Read Anthony and from Isaac Peckham Christiancy, a former Michigan senator and supreme court justice.

Dates: 1844 - 1911

Pillsbury family papers

 Collection
Call Number: RH MS 802
Overview These family papers, which date chiefly from the early 1840s through the 1860s, emanated from the family line of the Reverend Stephen Pillsbury and his wife Lavinia (Hobart) Pillsbury of New Hampshire. Comprising the bulk of the collection is Lavinia Pillsbury's correspondence with her adult children and their correspondence with each other--several of whom were early Kansas settlers. Included are typed memoirs of their son Leonard Hobart Pillsbury, who fought in several major battles of the...
Dates: 1805 - 1924

Whittier Club records

 Collection
Call Number: RH MS E185
Overview

This collection includes meeting minutes, financial information, membership information, photographs, and other documentation regarding the Whittier Club of Leavenworth, Kansas, a women's club dedicated to providing educational opportunities to its membership.

Dates: 1888 - 1986

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Anthony, D. R., Daniel Read, 1824-1904 2
Andrews family. 1
Anthony (Family : Leavenworth, Kan.) 1
Anthony family 1
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Anthony, Daniel Read, 1900-1986 1
Anthony, Elizabeth Havens, 1874-1949 1
Anthony, Emily Frances, 1839-1898 1
Anthony, Lewis Williams, 1825-1903 1
Anthony, Susan B. (Susan Brownell), 1820-1906 1
Bailey, E. H. S. (Edgar Henry Summerfield), 1848-1933 1
Brown, Debora K. 1
Christiancy, Isaac Peckham, 1812-1890 1
Connelley, William Elsey, 1855-1930 1
Crawford, Samuel R. 1
Curtis, Samuel Ryan, 1805-1866 1
Delaware Tribe of Indians 1
Dodge (Family : 1806- : Kansas) 1
Dodge family 1
Few family. 1
Few, George W., 1840- 1
Few, Josephine A., 1884- 1
Few, Samuel F., 1821?- 1
Fisher, Charlie (Fugitive slave) 1
Fisher, H. D. (Hugh Dunn), 1824-1905 1
Frye family. 1
Gibson, Thomas (Correspondent of James H. Lane) 1
Guthrie, Abelard, 1814-1873 1
Haven family. 1
Havens (Family : Leavenworth, Kan.) 1
Havens, Arthur B. (Arthur Bostwick), 1836-1921 1
Havens, Paul Egbert, 1839-1913 1
Holstlander, L. 1
Hussey-Dahler Company (Virginia City, Mont.) 1
Jenkins, Gaius, 1812-1858 1
Kansas Immigration Society 1
Kimball family. 1
Lane, James Henry (James Henry), 1814-1866 1
Lane, Mary Elizabeth Baldridge, 1826-1885 1
Lee, A. L. 1
Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 1
Methodist Episcopal Church. Kansas Conference 1
Methodist Episcopal Church. Nebraska Conference 1
Miller (Family : 1857- : Lyon County, Kan.) 1
Miller family 1
Missouri River Railway Company 1
Moore, H. Miles (Henry Miles), 1826- 1
National Union Committee for the West. 1
Paddock, G. W. (George Washington), 1823-1908 1
Paddock, Sophronia, 1827-1905 1
Parrott, Marcus J. (Marcus Junius), 1828-1879 1
Patt, Britannia Franklin, 1807-1895 1
Pillsbury family. 1
Pillsbury, Lavinia Hobart, 1795-1871 1
Pillsbury, Leonard Hobart, 1835-1933 1
Pillsbury, Stephen, 1781-1851 1
Quantrill, William Clarke, 1837-1865 1
Ross, Edmund G. (Edmund Gibson), 1826-1907 1
Silkman, F. B. 1
State Normal School (Leavenworth, Kan.) 1
Sterrett, David Brice Innis, 1837-1863 1
Sterrett, David, 1789-1865 1
Stuart Lutz Historic Documents, Inc. 1
Union Pacific Railroad Company 1
United States. Army. Kansas Infantry Regiment, 7th 1
United States. Army. Signal Corps 1
Waterman family. 1
Waterman, Franklin Alonzo, 1844-1886 1
Waterman, Lewis A. (Lewis Anthony), 1848-1868 1
Weston family. 1
Weston, Mary Pillsbury, 1817-1894 1
Whittier Club (Leavenworth, Kan.) 1
Willey, Sandra 1
Woart family. 1
Woart, Ella Dewey, 1848?- 1
Woart, John, 1810-1893 1
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