Papers 1840-1905

Deitzler, George Washington, 1826-1884

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Deitzler was born George Washington Ditzler in Pine Grove, Pennsylvania where he received a common school education ("very common" he once said). As a young man, he moved to the new West. After a short residence in Illinois, and in California, Deitzler went to Lawrence Kansas in March 1855. While in San Francisco, Dietzler had added the e before the i in his name and persuaded his brother, Rev. Jefferson M. Deitzler (still in Pennsylvania) to do the same. In Kansas, Deitzler “grew up with the...

Owen, Lena Miller

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Ayer family

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Miller, William, 1841-1919

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Miller, Josiah, 1828-1870.

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Josiah Miller (1828-1870) was prominent in the early history of Kansas. It has been asserted that it was he who proposed the motto which was included on the State Seal of Kansas, but this is not fully documented. His business interests, which contributed to the growth of Lawrence, included the publication of the Kansas Free State (1855-1856) with Robert G. Elliott, original membership in the Lawrence Bridge Company, one-third ownership of the bridge charter across the Kansas River, ...

Allen, Lyman, addressee

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Miller family

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Miller, George, 1834-1900

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Lawrence Bridge Co. Lawrence, Kan.

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Champlin family

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Miller, Carlisle, 1855? -1886

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Robinson, Charles, 1818-1894

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Charles Robinson was born at Hardwick, Mass., July 21, 1818. He was educated at Hadley Academy, Amherst Academy, and Amherst College. For 8 years he studied medicine and in 1843 opened his own practice in Belchertown, Mass. He married Sarah Adams the same year, but she died in 1846. In 1849 he went to California for his health, and while there became a newspaper editor, was indicted for murder but acquitted, and was elected to the Legislature. He returned to Massachusetts in 1851, r...

Owen family

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Miller, Robert H., research director

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Pomeroy, Samuel Clarke, 1816-1891.

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Pomeroy was the leader of the first party of New England Emigrant Aid Company to arrive at Lawrence, He was active in the Free State Movement; fought against the Lecompton Constitution; was mayor of Atchison; elected to U.S. Senate in 1861; re-elected in 1867; defeated in 18?3 due to an investigating committee. From the guide to the Letters, 1861-1873, (University of Kansas Kenneth Spencer Research Library Kansas Collection) Samuel Clarke Pomeroy was a Kansas Free-State advo...

Lane, James Henry, 1833-1907

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James Henry Lane (1833-1907), a Virginian by birth and education, received his commission as brigadier general in the Army of Northern Virginia in 1862. After the war he taught at several institutions, most particularly the Alabama Polytechnic Institute from 1882-1907. From the description of Lane, James H. letter, 1898. (University of Georgia). WorldCat record id: 316802367 Lane, a professor at Virginia Military Institute in 1861, served as major of the 1st North Carolina I...

Miller, Agnes, 1828-1913

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Lawrence Dam Water Power and Mfg. Co., Lawrence, Kan.

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Starr family

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