Robinson Family Papers, 1834-1911.

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Robinson Family Papers, 1834-1911.

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This collection consists of correspondence, diaries, narratives and newsclippings of Charles and Sara T.D. Robinson. The papers relate to the fight for a free Kansas and the early statehood period (1861-1863); personal, family, and business matters; construction of the University of Kansas; and Kansas and national politics.

13 reels.

Michigan State University Libraries, Main Library

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Michigan State University Libraries, Main Library

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University of Kansas.

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The University of Kansas (KU) in Lawrence, Douglas County was established in 1864 under constitutional provision. KU is a major comprehensive research and teaching university that serves as a center for learning, scholarship, and creative endeavor. The university is committed to offering the highest quality undergraduate, professional, and graduate programs and offers a broad array of advanced graduate study programs. It fulfills its mission through faculty, academic, and research programs of in...

Free Soil Party

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New England Emigrant Aid Society.

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Robinson Family.

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Charles Robinson (1818-1894), the first governor of Kansas, had a long and varied career. With his wife Sara, he moved to Kansas in 1854 as an agent of the Massachusetts Emigrant Aid Company and became a leader in the free Kansas movement. In 1861, when Kansas was finally admitted under the Wyandotte Constitution, he was elected governor. From 1864-1874 he was a regent of the University of Kansas. He re-entered the political arena in 1882 when he served in the state House of Represe...

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

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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 ...

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...