Papers 1841-1923

Curtis, Samuel Ryan, 1805-1866

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Born near Champlain, New York, Curtis graduated from the United States Military Academy in 1831. He was stationed at Fort Gibson in the Indian Territories (present-day Oklahoma) before resigning from the Army in 1832. He moved to Ohio, where he worked as a civil engineer on the Muskingum River improvement projects and also became a lawyer in 1841. During the Mexican–American War, he was appointed colonel of the 2nd Regiment of Ohio Volunteers and served as military governor of several occupied c...

Livingston, B. F.

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Guthrie, Abelard, 1814-1873

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National Union Committee for the West.

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Lane, Mary Elizabeth (Baldridge)

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Lee, A. L.

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Lane, James Henry, 1814-1866

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James Henry Lane (1814-1866) was a noted military and political leader of Kansas. He was active in his home state of Indiana, serving as a military commander in the Mexican War (1841) and later as Indiana's Lieutenant Governor from 1849-1853. Lane then entered national politics as a Democratic Congressman from Indiana, and served one term (1853-1855). The Free State Movement lured Lane to the Kansas Territory in April of 1855. He became an active leader in the Topeka Movement. In June of 1858, L...

Missouri River Railroad Co.

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Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865

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Abraham Lincoln (born February 12, 1809, Sinking Spring Farm near Hodgenville, Kentucky-died April 15, 1865, Washington, D.C.) was the sixteenth President of the United States from 1861 until his death by assassination. He was the son of a Kentucky frontiersman, Thomas Lincoln, and Nancy Hanks. In 1816, Lincoln moved to Pigeon Creek, Indiana, where he worked on his family's farm. Following his mother's death two years later, he continued working on farms until moving with his father to New Sa...

Holstlander, L.

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Crawford, Samuel R.

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Gibson, Thomas

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Epithet: cabinet-maker, of Dublin British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000565.0x00034a Epithet: of Add MS 23669 British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000565.0x00034d Epithet: of Egerton MS 3337 British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100...

Connelley, William Elsey, 1855-1930

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Author, historian, secretary of the Kansas State Historical Society (Topeka); of Independence, Topeka, Kan. From the description of William Elsey Connelley papers, 1878-1931. (Kansas State Historical Society). WorldCat record id: 124083141 Manabozho (Gluskap) is a trickster figure integral to most Algonquin tribes in the North / Northeastern Woodlands. "The Great Hare", or "the Great White One" easily transforms, is a creator and provider of food, and represents life forces....

Union Pacific Railroad

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The Union Pacific Railroad is the largest railroad network in the United States. The railroad was incorporated on 1 July 1862 in the wake of the Pacific Railroad Act. From the guide to the Union Pacific Railroad vouchers, 1899, (J. Willard Marriott Library, University of Utah) At the turn of the century Montana copper-king and Senator William A. Clark incorporated the San Pedro, Los Angeles and Salt Lake Railroad intending to connect the Los Angeles port of San Pedro, Califo...

Jenkins, Gaius

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