Samuel N. Wood papers [microform], 1885-1897.

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Samuel N. Wood papers [microform], 1885-1897.

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Correspondence and other papers of this noted nomadic Kansan who was involved in almost every major event in the early history of Kansas.

6 microfilm reels ; 35 mm.

Kansas State Historical Society

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Wood, S. N. (Samuel Newitt)

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Samuel Newitt Wood was born into a Quaker family at Mount Gilead, Ohio on 30 December 1825. From an early age, Wood interested himself in politics and in the abolitionist cause, acting as a conductor on the underground railroad. It was in this endeavor that he met his future wife, Margaret Walker Lyon, with whom he had four children. After teaching and reading law, he was admitted to the bar in 1854. That same year, Wood and his wife headed to Kansas in the name of the free state cause; Wood set...