The history of our ancestors. 1915

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The history of our ancestors. 1915

The history of our ancestors. Being a record of the Riggs, Baldridge, and Agnew families together with fragmentary data as to other cognate families.Ann Arbor, Mich., 1915.

269p. 28cm.; Appendix. Typewritten.; Appendix: "Recollections of Kate D. E. Riggs of Quantrill's raid uponLawrence, Kansas."

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Baldridge family

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Quantrill, William Clarke, 1837-1865

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William Clarke Quantrill was born in Canal Dover, Ohio in 1837. He came to Kansas as a young man, and taught school for a while before he became active in the border wars, between free state and pro-slavery forces in the fight for Kansas statehood. He fought on the Confederate side during the Civil War, participating in guerrilla warfare. His most infamous act as a guerrilla chief was the sack of Lawrence in the early morning of August 21, 1863. Quantrill died two years after the raid in a milit...

Agnew family

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Kirkpatrick family

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Riggs, Henry Earle, 1865-

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Professor of civil engineering at University of Michigan. From the description of Henry Earle Riggs papers, 1911-1942. (University of Michigan). WorldCat record id: 34420672 Born on May 8, 1853 in Lawrence, Kansas, Henry E. Riggs graduated in 1886 from the University of Kansas with the degree of A.B., after a five-year literary and engineering course. In 1910 he received the degree of C.E. from the University of Michigan. On graduation from the University of Kan...

Earle family

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Riggs family

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Vreeland family

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Riggs, Catherine Dome (Earle), 1836-1920

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