Doniphan County (Kan.) -- History

Overview This collection contains one share, No. 141. Nebraska Advertiser Print, Brownsville, Nebraska Territory, 1857. This printed form is illustrated and completed by hand. Text reads: ONE SHARE, Buffalo City. This entitles Charles Blakely To One Share, being the undivided one-hundred-and fiftieth portion of land known as BUFFALO CITY, Doniphan Co., K.T. [Doniphan County, Kansas Territory] Signed G.B. Chadduck, Sec'y. B.B. Fraser, Pres't. The collection also includes four small black and white...

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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.

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Photocopies of two short histories of Doniphan County, Kansas.

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The first papers of the collection, dating from the 1830s to 1855, cover William Patton's residence in Missouri and receipts for purchases of enslaved persons. The latter portion of the collection includes papers from related families and kinsmen: Summers, Renfro. and Pryor Plank.