Rachel Crown papers 1800s-1987

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Rachel Crown papers 1800s-1987

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The Rachel Crown papers contain photocopied genealogical charts, family group lists, and photographs of Rachel Crown's Armistead family and Crown family ancestors, who were among the early settlers of Smith County, Kansas. Included also are several photocopies of Rachel Crown's writings, as well as a letter written to her from William Allen White in 1937.

6 folders

eng,

University of Kansas Kenneth Spencer Research Library Kanas Collection

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SNAC Resource ID: 6355690

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Crown, Rachel, 1917-

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Dr. Rachel M. Crown was born in 1917 in Smith County, Kansas to Ernest Othniel Crown and Sarah Leora (Armitstead) Crown. She earned degrees from Greenville College, Greenville, Illinois in 1937 and in 1944. Plain Quartz is the title of a collection of her self-published poems. Dr. Crown has reproduced a five-generation photograph album of her forebears who settled in Smith County, Kansas in the 1870s. From the guide to the Rachel Crown papers, 1800s-1987, (University of Kansas Kennet...

Armitstead family.

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Crown family.

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White, William Allen, 1868-1944

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American journalist known as the "Sage of Emporia"; owner and editor of the "Emporia Gazette." From the description of Papers of William Allen White, 1890-1940 [manuscript]. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 647837106 Journalist. From the description of Letters, 1889-1945. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122644557 Pulitzer Prize-winning Emporia, Kansas, newspaper editor and author. From the description of William Allen White letter...

Cox, Joseph

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