Papers, compiled by Tracy Learnard(?). 1850-1911

Nettleton, George Henry

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6r35rmr (person)

Henning, B. S.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6t58j0n (person)

Quantrill, William Clarke, 1837-1865

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6vh5nt8 (person)

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...

Haskell Institute

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w632419d (corporateBody)

Learnard, Oscar Eugene, 1832-1911

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6sj4576 (person)

Learnard was born in Fairfax, Vermont on November 14, 1832, and died in Lawrence, Kansas on November 6, 1911. He was an attorney, Civil War veteran, a newspaper publisher, and an organizer of Burlington, Kansas. From the guide to the Papers, 1869-1926, (University of Kansas Kenneth Spencer Research Library Kansas Collection) Oscar Eugene Learnard was born 14 November 1832 in Fairfax, Vermont. He attended Bakersfield Academy but had to interrupt his studies due to ill health,...

Learnard, Mary Sohpie Eldridge

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w63d0qfd (person)