Records, 1871-1897.

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Records, 1871-1897.

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The collection consists of the papers, 1871-1897, of the KFR (which one Washington journalist believed was an acronym for Knights of Fool's Revenge). The folder includes a roll call, 1878-1879, and a history of the KFR Journal, with a list of editors and subscribers, 1878. The octavo volumes are: a. Records of the KRF compiled by Frank Bolles in 1877, which include historical notes on sessions, chronological membership lists, notes on individual members (with several membership applications tipped into the volume), and drafts of constitutions; b. a volume of newsclippings and printed programs, 1871-1897. The newsclippings are mainly critical reviews of the KFR Journal and the programs concern the group's amateur theatricals and balls. The volume also contains membership lists. The folio volume, 1872-1874, includes roll calls, constitutions, by-laws, and minutes of KFR meetings. The latter concern primarily the establishment of the Journal.

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SNAC Resource ID: 7000489

American Antiquarian Society

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KFR.

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The KFR was a fraternal, literary, and dramatic society organized in 1871 by teen-aged boys of eminent Washington, D.C. families. The treasurer was Jesse Root Grant (1858-1934), son of President Ulysses S. Grant (1822-1885). Jesse Grant was also assistant editor of the KFR Journal, an amateur monthly that the group published in Washington, D.C., 1873-1874. It was largely a satirical journal devoted to "fact, fiction, and fun." The society also held dramatic presentations and organized soirees an...

Addison, Charles Morris, 1856-1947

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Grant, Jesse Root, 1858-1934

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Grant settled in California and in the 1890s was an early developer of Tia Juana now Tijuana, Mexico, as a gambling resort. He married Elizabeth Chapman, who was from a prominent family in San Francisco (her father was William Chapman, one of the founders of the California Academy of Sciences). From the description of Jesse R. Grant papers, circa 1915-1934. (University of California, Berkeley). WorldCat record id: 26786462 ...

Bolles, Frank, 1856-1894

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Secretary of the Athletic Commission. From the description of Letters, 1893, March 27, Cambridge, Massachusetts, to Lucian Sharpe, Jr. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122544489 ...

Parris, Albion Keith, 1857-1930.

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