Group of documents relating mainly to Kansas [microform], 1854-1856.

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Group of documents relating mainly to Kansas [microform], 1854-1856.

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Papers relating to Kansas Territory elections, 1854-1856, when John Sherman was a member of the U.S. House of Representatives Special Committee Appointed to Investigate Troubles in Kansas. The documents, ca. 57 items (ca. 296 p.), include abstract of census and election returns in Kansas Territory, 1854-1855, and testimony heard by the Committee.

1 microfilm reel ; 35 mm.

Kansas State Historical Society

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SNAC Resource ID: 7691496

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Sherman, John, 1823-1900

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Sherman was born in Lancaster, Ohio to Charles Robert Sherman and his wife, Mary Hoyt Sherman, the eighth of their 11 children. John Sherman's grandfather, Taylor Sherman, a Connecticut lawyer and judge, first visited Ohio in the early nineteenth century, gaining title to several parcels of land before returning to Connecticut. After Taylor's death in 1815, his son Charles, newly married to Mary Hoyt, moved the family west to Ohio. Several other Sherman relatives soon followed, and Charles becam...

United States. Congress 1855-1856). House.

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