Samuel Newitt Wood papers, 1855 - 1891.

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Samuel Newitt Wood papers, 1855 - 1891.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/706804879

The collection consists of Wood's correspondence, mostly arranged chronologically from 1855 through 1891 (alphabetically for undated materials), as well as some illegible correspondence; fee bills from Colorado District Court from 1871-1874; and military records from 1861-1891. The correspondence includes government and war documents, financial accounting papers, as well as business and political letters. There are no papers for 1857-1858 and for scattered other years; the bulk of the papers date from the 1870s.

3.75 cubic feet (8 boxes).

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...