George Washington Martin papers, 1858 - 1914

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George Washington Martin papers, 1858 - 1914

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/714157023

The collection consists of Martin's personal papers. It includes legal documents; certificates of appointment; tax receipts, financial statements, account book, and other such financial records; insurance documentation; historical sketches, addresses, speeches, etc. on such topics as history, Kansas, William Sayer Blakely, Elizabeth Henderson, historical markers and monuments, etc.; biographical information on Martin; incoming and some outgoing business and political correspondence; Donald Ferguson Martin's papers, including some 1858 correspondence from George Washington Martin and Mollie Ferguson's high school graduation speech from 1885; and a collection of letters written to Martin congratulating him on his 72nd birthday in 1913, among other materials. The papers demonstrate Martin's political and business interests and activities.

1.5 cubic feet (4 boxes) + oversize materials.

Kansas State Historical Society

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SNAC Resource ID: 8083491

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Kansas State Historical Society

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The Kansas State Historical Society (KSHS or KHS) was formally organized on 13 December 1875, though previous attempts had been made to found such a society. The Kansas Editors' and Publishers' Association were the driving force for this latest version, and the committee created to form the society appointed Franklin G. Adams as its secretary. The Society soon outgrew its space in the State Capitol and after several successive moves within the building, its collections were moved to the new Memo...

Martin, George W. (George Washington), 1841-1914

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George Washington Martin was born in Pennsylvania to David and Mary Howell Martin on 30 June 1841. In 1855 his father went to Kansas, taking a claim near Lecompton, Douglas County, and two years later brought his family back with him. In the meantime, George had started working in the printing trade. He continued in this line in Kansas and finished his apprenticeship back east in Philadelphia. Returning to Kansas in the early 1860s, he started publishing the Republican newspaper the Union in Jun...

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