Correspondence 1862-1863

Christian, James

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Banks, Elliott V.

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Russell, Sheldon C.

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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...

Montgomery, W. P.

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West, W.

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Fillmore, Lemuel

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Riggs, Samuel A. (Samuel Agnew), 1835-1920

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Smith, George W.

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Carpenter, Louis

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Young, Samuel A.

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Thacher, S. O. (Solon Otis), 1830-1895

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Solon Otis Thacher was born at Hornellsville, New York, August 31, 1830. The Thacher family was of old New England stock. Solon was the son of Otis and Hannah Kennedy Graves Thacher. Thacher was educated in the common schools of his native town before graduating from Union College. After college he attended Albany Law School and was admitted to practice by the New York supreme court in 1856. He entered politics that year and was elected to the New York legislature, serving as a memb...

Cobb, Nelson

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Shannon, Wilson, 1802-1877

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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...

Coe, John M.

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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...

Lowman, E. S.

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Bassett, Owen A.

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Hendry, James N.

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Goodin, Joel K.

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Hutchings, John, 1836-

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Hutchings moved to Lawrence in 1863 to form a law partnership with Elliott V. Banks. From the guide to the Correspondence, 1862-1863, (University of Kansas Kenneth Spencer Research Library Kansas Collection) ...