Letters 1850-1909

Robinson, Charles, 1818-1894

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6794cnp (person)

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...

Robinson, Sara T. L. (Sara Tappan Lawrence), 1827-1911

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6nw0qzx (person)

Sara Robinson was the wife of Charles Robinson, the first governor of Kansas. She wrote a history of Kansas; Frank Wilson Blackmar wrote biographies of her husband. (See the Kansas Collection card catalog for these items.) From the guide to the Letters, 1850-1909, (University of Kansas Kenneth Spencer Research Library Kansas Collection) From the guide to the Scrapbooks, 1857-1894, (University of Kansas Kenneth Spencer Research Library Kansas Collection) Sara Tappan ...

Blackmar, Frank W. (Frank Wilson), 1854-1931

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6q255pz (person)

Blackmar received his A.B. in 1881 and his A.M. in 1884, both from Pacific University. He received his Ph.D. from Johns Hopkins in 1889. He joined the faculty of KU in 1889 in the Department of History and Sociology, although he also taught Economics. He became the first Dean of the Graduate School in 1897 and served until 1922. He died in 1931 of complications from influenza. From the guide to the Personal Papers of Frank Blackmar, 1889-1931, (University of Kansas Kenneth Spencer Re...

Stone, Phebe Robinson

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w63d0q9m (person)