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Holland family. Holland family letters [manuscript], 1856-1866.

Title: Holland family letters [manuscript], 1856-1866.

Collection includes: Photocopy manuscript letters from Isabelle Holland, Canyonville, Oregon to her mother, Nebraska City, Kansas, 1856 and 1863; Photocopy manuscript letter from John St. John, West Point, Iowa to Lydia Holland, his aunt, 1866, regarding family in Oregon.

ArchivalResource: .02 cubic feet (1 folder)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/693268904 View

Negro Exodus papers, 1879 [sic] [microform], 1879-1881.

Title: Negro Exodus papers, 1879 [sic] [microform], 1879-1881.

Assembled collection of documents relating to the "Exodus," the migration of African Americans from the South to Kansas in the late 1870s. The documents are from the records of Kansas Governor John Pierce St. John (1879-1883) in the state archives and several ms. collections at the Kansas Historical Society (Topeka).

ArchivalResource: 1 microfilm reel (915 images) ; 35 mm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/55984044 View

Brewer family papers, 1714-1954, 1820-1930

Title: Brewer family papers 1714-1954 1820-1930

The papers consist of correspondence, writings, speeches, scrapbooks, photographs, diaries, and other papers, primarily of David Josiah Brewer, lawyer and justice of the U.S. Supreme Court. The material includes Brewer's personal and family papers, although there are some papers relating to public matters, notably the Anglo-Venezuelan boundary dispute. Also included are papers of five generations of Brewer family members, including Josiah Brewer (1796-1872), the father of David Josiah Brewer. Nearly all of the family material consists of correspondence and is largely related to family matters.

ArchivalResource: 13.75 linear feet (21 boxes, 1 folio, 4 v.)

http://hdl.handle.net/10079/fa/mssa.ms.0099 View

Cantwell, John Simon. Papers, 1804-1907.

Title: Cantwell, John Simon. Papers, 1804-1907.

Papers of Universalist minister John Simon Cantwell, including correspondence and autographs. The papers span 1804-1907.

ArchivalResource: 1 box (.21 c.f.)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/div00585/catalog View

Horatio N. Rust scrapbook [microform].

Title: Horatio N. Rust scrapbook [microform]. [188-?]

ArchivalResource: 181 p. : ill. ; 29 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/85785759 View

Miscellaneous Correspondence, 1839-1954

Title: Miscellaneous Correspondence 1839-1954

The collection includes miscellaneous correspondence, clippings, etc. of Kansas governors, collected over the years from various individuals.

ArchivalResource: 5 folders

http://hdl.handle.net/10407/9146757729 View

Kansas. Governor (1879-1883 : St. John). Kansas Governor John P. St. John correspondence received ; extradition and requisition warrants ; executive messages and proclamations, 1879-1883.

Title: Kansas Governor John P. St. John correspondence received ; extradition and requisition warrants ; executive messages and proclamations, 1879-1883.

Correspondence and other records of the administration of John Pierce St. John, governor of the State of Kansas from 13 Jan. 1879 to 8 Jan. 1883. Correspondence received includes general letters, official response letters from & letters concerning State agencies, and subject files; some proclamations are also included. Subject files include applications, endorsements, & remonstrances relating to candidates for appointments to normal school, penitentiary, judicial, & other positions; county organizational papers; and letters relating to counties, crime & criminals, justices of the peace, lands, military affairs, relief, the black exoduses, and prohibition. Non-correspondence series include Extradition and requisition warrants, 1879-1880, and Executive messages and proclamations, 1881-1882. Additional records of Governor St. John are in separate series common to several governors including an Executive record (Official record), 1861-1879; Executive proclamations, 1861-1980; Pardon and parole files from the Women's Industrial Farm, 1863-1919; Pardons, 1865-1883; Letter press books, 1865-1904; a Letter register, 1871-1895; a Record of death sentences, 1872-1906; and Death sentence warrants, 1872-1908; Requisitions on governor from governors of other states for persons accused of crimes, 1873-1960; County organization censuses, ca. 1873-ca. 1886; Prisoners in Kansas State Penitentiary, ca. 1875-ca. 1897; and Citizenship pardons, 1876-1960.

ArchivalResource: 20 ft. (24 boxes + 7 oversize folders)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/228416642 View

Autograph File, S, 1556-1996.

Title: Autograph File, S, 1556-1996.

The Autograph File is an alphabetically arranged collection of single letters, manuscripts, and drawings received from various sources at various times. Additions continue to be made.

ArchivalResource: 15.5 boxes (7.7 linear ft.)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou01442/catalog View

Joseph E. Taulman Collection 38947602, 39143903, 39143876, 39141360, 39143978, 39143879, 39143870, 2008-071., 1783-1994

Title: Joseph E. Taulman Collection 1783-1994

Papers relate to the Taulman and Parker families of Texas. Included are documents from the Civil War and Reconstruction periods, family correspondence and genealogies. Pictorial materials were made or collected by Taulman.

ArchivalResource:

http://www.lib.utexas.edu/taro/utcah/00101/00101-P.html View

Hodges, George H. (George Hartshorn), 1866-1947. Correspondence, 1893-1922 (bulk 1893-1918).

Title: Correspondence, 1893-1922 (bulk 1893-1918).

Primarily letters received, many of them political. Included is correspondence pertaining to issues relating to the governance of Olathe, Kan., while George Hodges's brother Frank was mayor; Frank's son's deafness; the 1902 Congressional campaign; hunting; civic matters; George Hodges's election as State senator, 1904; a coal weighing bill; Barney Sheridan; legislative matters, including roads & lead paint; politics; George Hodges's pursuit of the Democratic gubernatorial nomination; newspapers' opposition to his bid; keeping progressive Democrats "in line"; a "lumber trust"; a heated race for chairman of the Democratic State Committee; analysis of Hodges's defeat in 1910; available state jobs; the 1912 U.S. Senate & gubernatorial race and Hodges's candidacy for the latter; strife within the Democratic Party; the 1912 primary & general elections; Woodrow Wilson; Hodges's labor views; direct election of U.S. senators; candidacy of William Thompson for U.S. Senate; Prohibition; political appointments; Hodges's bid for re-election in 1914; speaking at Chautauquas, Anti-Saloon League, & other Prohibition events; his possible candidacy for a Federal Trade Commission position; possible candidates in 1916; the 1916 State Democratic convention; his lumber business; his appointment to the Food Conservation Commission of Kansas; and his candidacy in the 1918 U.S. Senate race. Correspondents include Henry J. Allen, J.D. Botkin, William Jennings Bryan, Samuel Crumbine, Herbert S. Hadley, Grant Harrington, Frank Hodges, John P. St. John, and Charles M. Sheldon. School Textbook Commission correspondence, Nov. 1911-Nov. 1912 (bulk Nov. 1911-May 1912) deals with proposed changes in legislation, merits of specific texts, and pricing.

ArchivalResource: 5 ft. (12 boxes)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/317980614 View

Horatio N. Rust scrapbook.

Title: Horatio N. Rust scrapbook. [188-?]

ArchivalResource: 181 p. : ill. ; 29 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/85785758 View

United States. Army. Illinois Infantry Regiment, 68th (1862). Company C. Muster and payroll: Camp Butler, [Ill.], 1862 Sept. 26.

Title: Muster and payroll: Camp Butler, [Ill.], 1862 Sept. 26.

Lists Company C members present, sick or otherwise, and amount paid for three months service. Signed by St. John.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (2 p.); 54 x 80 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/34798897 View

St. John, John Pierce, 1833-1916. John Pierce St. John papers, 1859-1917.

Title: John Pierce St. John papers, 1859-1917.

Personal and political correspondence and scrapbooks and a great deal of biographical material on John P. St. John and his family. The collection contains considerable material on Prohibition and activities of reform groups during the Progressive Era. Correspondents include Susan B. Anthony; U.S. President Chester A. Arthur; Kansas U.S. Senator S.C. Pomeroy; Reverend Levi Sternberg, patriarch to the famous fossil hunters of Kansas; and Francis E. Willard of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union.

ArchivalResource: 2 ft. (4 boxes)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/228416486 View

Newspaper Clippings, 1899?-1916?

Title: Newspaper Clippings 1899?-1916?

John Pierce St. John served as the eighth governor of Kansas from 1879-1882. The volumes in this collection are compilations of various newspaper clippings and political cartoons documenting St. John's career after he left the office of governor.

ArchivalResource: 2 v. : ill., ports. ; 24 cm.

http://hdl.handle.net/10407/9795221893 View

Charles H. Branscomb papers, 1853-1886

Title: Charles H. Branscomb papers 1853-1886

Correspondence and documents, 1853-1886.

ArchivalResource: 7 items

http://hdl.handle.net/10407/4812286714 View

St. John, John Pierce, 1833-1916. Letter to A. Willington, 1890 December 19.

Title: Letter to A. Willington, 1890 December 19.

St. John discusses various dates for an evening's engagement (lecture?).

ArchivalResource: 1 item.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/53372034 View

Brewer family. Brewer family papers, 1714-1954 (inclusive), 1820-1930 (bulk).

Title: Brewer family papers, 1714-1954 (inclusive), 1820-1930 (bulk).

The papers consist of correspondence, writings, speeches, scrapbooks, photographs, diaries,and other papers, primarily of David Josiah Brewer, lawyer and justice of the U.S. Supreme Court. The material includes Brewer's personal and family papers, although there are some papers relating to public matters, notably the Anglo-Venezuelan boundary dispute. Also included are papers of five generations of Brewer family members, including Josiah Brewer (1796-1872), the father of David Josiah Brewer. Nearly all of the family material consists of correspondence and is largely related to family matters.

ArchivalResource: 13.75 linear ft. (21 boxes, 1 folio, 4 v.)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/702195711 View