Correspondence 1868-1892

Guthrie, Woody, 1912-1967

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Woody Guthrie, American folk singer, born in Okemah, Oklahoma in 1912 and raised in Texas, moved to California during the Depression, where he met actor and activist Will Geer and toured migrant labor camps documenting conditions and injustices in the camps for The Light newspaper. He also performed on Los Angeles radio KFVD-LA, singing old-time ballads, some of which he updated with lyrics about contemporary issues. Alan Lomax, assistant in charge of the Archive of American Folk Song at the Lib...

Legate, James T.

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Baker V. Stewart.

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Jackson, Frances M. W.

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Graves, Hattie S.

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Plumb, Preston B., 1837-1891

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Preston Plumb was born October 12, 1837 at Berkshire, Delaware County, Ohio. He was the first born of, David and Hannah Marie (Bierce) Plumb. He later added the middle name to improve the appearance of his signature. David was a wagon maker and Preston worked with him in his shop. The family moved to Berlin Township in 1843 and then to Marysville, Union County, Ohio in 1846. Preston attended prep school for three years. Preston attended Kenyon College at Gambier, Ohio by working in the printing ...

Harrison, Benjamin, 1833-1901

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Benjamin Harrison (1833-1901) was a Republican politician who served as the 23rd President of the United States from 1889 to 1893. He was both preceded and succeeded in office by Democrat Grover Cleveland. From the guide to the Benjamin Harrison letter to George C. Baker, 1888, (Brooklyn Historical Society) John Harrington Farley, born in Cleveland in 1845, was a Democratic politician who served three terms on Cleveland's city council (1871-1877) and two terms as its mayor (...

Hallowell, J. R.

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Martin, George W. (George Washington), 1841-1914

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George Washington Martin was born in Pennsylvania to David and Mary Howell Martin on 30 June 1841. In 1855 his father went to Kansas, taking a claim near Lecompton, Douglas County, and two years later brought his family back with him. In the meantime, George had started working in the printing trade. He continued in this line in Kansas and finished his apprenticeship back east in Philadelphia. Returning to Kansas in the early 1860s, he started publishing the Republican newspaper the Union in Jun...

Graves, Charles B.

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Canfield (D.B.) and Co., Philadelphia.

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Horton, Albert H. (Albert Howell), 1837-1902

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Legislator; attorney, U.S. attorney for Kansas; chief justice of the Kansas Supreme Court. Of Atchison, Kan. From the description of Albert H. Horton letters and telegrams received, 1872-1933 (bulk 1892-1895). (Kansas State Historical Society). WorldCat record id: 49970647 A graduate of the University of Michigan, Horton came to Kansas in 1860. He began to practice law in Atchison. From 1861 to 1866 Horton was District Judge of the Second District. He was a presidential elec...

Brewer, David J. (David Josiah), 1837-1910

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U.S. Supreme Court justice from 1889-1910. From the description of David J. Brewer letters, 1890-1903. (Cornell University Library). WorldCat record id: 63936781 Jurist. From the description of David J. Brewer papers, 1865-1906. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 79456403 Brewer served on the Kansas Supreme Court (1870-1884), the United States Circuit Court of Appeal, 8th Circuit, (1884-1889) and as associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (1890-1910), an...

Rice, John H.

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Kansas Equal Suffrage Association (1884-1913)

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Ingalls, John James, 1833-1900

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John James Ingalls was born December 29, 1833, in Middletown, Massachusetts. He was the son of Elias T. and Eliza (Chase) Ingalls. From the description of John J. Ingalls papers, 1833-1900, bulk (1858-1900). (Kansas State Historical Society). WorldCat record id: 50435869 Ingalls lived in Atchison and served as Senator from Kansas, 1873-1891 He was an attorney, lecturer, and author. For a biography of Ingalls see Burton J. Williams, Senator John James Ingalls, Kansas' Iridesc...

Hudson, Joseph Kennedy, 1840-1907

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Joseph Kennedy Hudson was born 4 May 1840 in Carroll County, Ohio to John and Rebecca Hudson. He grew up in Salem, Ohio (a Quaker community), and his father published the Western Anti-Slavery Bugle. In 1861 with the outbreak of war, Joseph enlisted in General Lane's frontier brigade in Leavenworth, Kansas. In 1863 in Wyandotte he married Mary W. Smith, also of Salem, Ohio. They had four children. After the war, Hudson worked as farmer and stock raiser in Wyandotte County, Kansas; in 1879, he fou...

Johns, Laura M.

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Blackwell, H. B.

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Osborn, S. J.

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Anderson, John Alexander, 1834-1892

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Munford, Morrison

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Humphrey, Lyman Underwood, 1844-1915

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Humphrey was governor of Kansas, 1888-1892. Before entering politics he edited the South Kansas Tribune (Independence, Kansas) with W. T. Yoe from 1871-1873. He established a law practice in Independence in 1873. In 1876 he was elected to the House of Representatives in the Kansas Legislature and Lieutenant-Governor for an unexpired term, and in 1878 was elected to that office for a full term. Humphrey ran for election to Congress from the 3rd District (Independence, Kansas) in 1892, but lost. F...

Cleveland, Grover, 1837-1908

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Grover Cleveland, born in Caldwell, NJ, 18 March 1837; moved to Buffalo, NY in 1855; Erie County Sheriff, 1871-1874; Mayor of Buffalo, 1882; Governor of New York, 1883-1884; President of the United States, 1885-1889, 1893-1897; married Frances Folsom, 1886; died at Princeton, NJ, 24 June 1908....