Mary S. Learnard collection 1871-1875, 1938

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Mary S. Learnard collection 1871-1875, 1938

http://hdl.handle.net/10407/2320819129

This small collection purportedly relates to early Lawrence, Kansas resident Mary S. (Mrs. Oscar E.) Learnard, who was a daughter of Lawrence pioneer Shalor Eldridge. Included is an unattributed typescript describing Lawrence's early history. Also included is the record of an account (entries dated 1871-1872) with Iowa City, Iowa businessman Justin DeWitt Bowersock who later moved to Lawrence, where he was prominent in business and in state and local politics. The Iowa City account with Bowersock is that of his future mother-in-law, Mrs. James H. Gower.

3 folders (25x38cm)

eng,

University of Kansas Kenneth Spencer Research Library Kanas Collection

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SNAC Resource ID: 6353539

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Kittredge, Frank Edward

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Bowersock, Justin DeWitt, 1842-1922.

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Justin DeWitt Bowersock was born in Columbiana County, Ohio on September 19, 1842 to Israel and Adaline (McDonald) Bowersock. By age twenty-two, he was engaged in general merchandising and in the grain business at Iowa City, Iowa. On September 5, 1866, he married Mary C. Gower, daughter of James H. and Barradella Gower of Iowa City. In 1877 the Bowersocks and the Gowers moved to Lawrence, Kansas, where Bowersock acquired the dam over the Kansas River, harnessing its ener...

Learnard, Mary S., b. 1842 .

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Mary S. Learnard was born in Massachusetts in January 1842 to Shalor Winchell and Mary R. (Norton) Eldridge. Her father, a railroad contractor, relocated to Kansas City in 1854, where he bought the American House, operated as a free state hotel. In 1856, he began operating the Free State Hotel at Lawrence, which was twice burned by pro-slavery factions and rebuilt by Eldridge. In 1862, Mary Eldridge married Oscar Eugene Learnard, a member of the first territorial legislature of Kansas and one of...