[Mary S. Learnard collection] 1871-1938.

Kittredge, Frank Edward

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Learnard, Mary S., b. 1842 .

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Mary S. Learnard was born in Massachusetts in January 1842 to Shalor Winchell and Mary R. (Norton) Eldridge. Her father, a railroad contractor, relocated to Kansas City in 1854, where he bought the American House, operated as a free state hotel. In 1856, he began operating the Free State Hotel at Lawrence, which was twice burned by pro-slavery factions and rebuilt by Eldridge. In 1862, Mary Eldridge married Oscar Eugene Learnard, a member of the first territorial legislature of Kansas and one of...

Bowersock, Justin DeWitt, 1842-1922.

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Justin DeWitt Bowersock was born in Columbiana County, Ohio on September 19, 1842 to Israel and Adaline (McDonald) Bowersock. By age twenty-two, he was engaged in general merchandising and in the grain business at Iowa City, Iowa. On September 5, 1866, he married Mary C. Gower, daughter of James H. and Barradella Gower of Iowa City. In 1877 the Bowersocks and the Gowers moved to Lawrence, Kansas, where Bowersock acquired the dam over the Kansas River, harnessing its ener...