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76. FRANKLIN G. ADAMS was born in the State of New York, in 1824.
He came to Kansas in 1855; has been a lawyer and an editor; and
has occupied various public positions. He has been secretary of the
Kansas State Historical Society since the beginning of its work, in 1876.
77. HON. PERCIVAL G. LOWE was born in New Hampshire, in 1828.
He came to Kansas in 1849, and was for many years connected with
the United States army in various positions. He has been a prominent
citizen of Leavenworth county, since its settlement in 1854; has been
sheriff of the county; and represented the county in the state senate
from 1885 to 1889. He has long been a member of the board of directors
of the State Historical Society; is now president of the society, having
been elected in January, 1893.
78. COL. SAMUEL WALKER was born in Ohio, in 1822; settled in
Kansas in 1854, near Lawrence; was prominent on the free-state side
during the territorial struggle, and was colonel of the fourth cavalary at
the Wakarusa war; was a member of the Topeka legislature in 1856; and
was major of the fifth Kansas regiment, and lieutenant colonel of the
sixteenth cavalry regiment, and was promoted to brevet brigadier general
in 1865. He died in 1893.
79. WIRT W. WALTON was born in Ohio, in 1852. He came to Kansas
in 1870, first residing in Labette county, and afterwards in Cowley county.
He was journal clerk of the Kansas house of representatives in 1873, and
chief clerk in 1877, 1879, and 1881, and was assistant superintendent of
public instruction in 1877-'80. He represented Clay county in the house
of representatives in 1882. He was a journalist, and was editor of the
Clay Centre Dispatch at the time of his death, in 1886.
80. THOMAS BROWER PEACOCK was born in Ohio, in 1852; settled in
Independence, Kas., in 1872; is a printer, editor, and author. His
published volumes are: "Poems," 1872; "The Vendetta," and other poems,
1876; "The Rhyme of the Border War," 1880' "Poems of the Plains and
Songs of the Solitudes," 1887. He resides at Topeka.
81. The picture represents a scene in the battle of Hickory Point;
an engagement between free-state and pro-slavery forces, September 13,
1856, in Jefferson county, Kansas. The pro-slavery men were intrenched
in a blacksmith shop. The free-state men, with cannon, undertook to
dislodge them. The engagement continued from the middle of the day
until nightfall. One person was killed on the pro-slavery side; others
were wounded, on both sides. In the evening the free-state men withdrew to Oskaloosa, five miles distant, where, as they were about to
encamp for the night, they were arrested, 101 in number, by a force
of United States troops, for the violation of the terms of a proclamation
which had been issued by Governor Geary. Under this charge they
were confined in a temporary prison at Lecompton. By the March follow-
ing all had escaped but 13. These were then unconditionally pardoned
by Governor Geary. No. 82 presents an inside view of the Lecompton
prison, with the Hickory Point prisoners. Both the pictures were drawn
by Henry Breyman, one of the prisoners, who was a settler in Douglas
county.
82. LECOMPTON PRISON. See No. 81.
83. The picture shows the log house built by William H. R. Lykins,
in the fall of 1854, as his pre-emption cabin, on ground which became a
part of the city of Lawrence. The house was used as the first post
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office in Lawrence. It was the voting place for Lawrence precinct in
the territorial election of March 30, 1855. Geo. H. Crocker became the
occupant of the house in 1856, and the figures in the foreground in
the picture represent the members of his family at that time. Mr. Lykins
died at Kansas City, Mo., in June, 1893.
84. This house was built by Clark Stearns, who made his settlement
May 26, 1854. Charles H. Branscombe, as agent of the New England
Emigrant Aid Company, in July, 1854, selected the land for the town of
Lawrence, and made an agreement with Mr. Stearns for the purchase of
his right for $500. The amount was paid in gold on the 29th of September,
by Gen. S. C. Pomeroy, as agent for the company.
85. The picture is an interior view of the Kansas and Colorado
exhibit at the cotton centennial exposition at New Orleans, in 1884 and
1885.
86. The picture is a view of Lawrence from Mount Oread, upon the
summit of which are now the Kansas University buildings. The view was
taken about the year 1859, and, among other things, shows some of the
materials which had then been brought on the ground for the construction
of the first university building.
87. The picture shows the structures erected for dwellings and other
uses by the first New England settlers at Lawrence in the early autumn of
1854. The picture is photographed from a pen drawing made for Mr. J.
G. Sands. Among the houses is the residence and business house of Mr.
Sands, the buillding which was used for the first church in Lawrence,
and also the first hotel building.
88. KANSAS CONGRESSIONAL COMMITTEE OF 1856. The picture
shows portraits of the members of the committee: William A. Howard, of
Michigan; John Sherman, of Ohio; and Mordecai Oliver, of Missouri;
together with their secretary, William Blair Lord, and their sergeant-at-
arms, John Upton. The committee was appointed by Nathaniel P. Banks,
speaker of the United States house of representatives, in May, 1856.
Under a resolution of the house, the committee immediately visited
Kansas to investigate the troubles growing out of election frauds and
other unlawful acts which had occurred in the administration of the
affairs of Kansas Territory. Their report, of which 20,000 copies were
printed, is a book of 1,346 pages. The book contains a remarkably full
collection of political facts in the early history of Kansas Territory;
has the name of nearly every voter in the territory, and the affidavits
of many prominent men of both political parties in regard to leading
events. The picture was given to the State Historical Society by Mr.
Lord, the secretary.
89. BRINTON WEBB WOODWARD was born in Pennsylvania, in 1834; settled
in Lawrence, Kas., May 20, 1855. He has been a regent of the Kansas
University, president of the Kansas Academy of Language and Literature,
and is now president of the University Extension Association, of Lawrence.
He is author of a volume entitled "Old Wine in New Bottles," published in
Lawrence in 1890.
90. JOHN T. JONES (Ottawa Jones) was born in Canada, in June, 1808.
His father was an Englishman; his mother an Indian woman of the Chippewa
nation. While yet a little boy he became attached to the family of a
captain of a vessel of the lakes. He afterwards was taken into the mission
school of Rev. Isaac McCoy, at Carey, Mich., near where the city of Niles
now is; afterwards he was four years at Hamilton College, New York. He
then taught for one year at Choctaw Academy, Kentucky. He became inter-
preter at Sault Ste. Marie for various tribes. He came to Kansas with the
Pottawatomies about the year 1837. About the year 1847, he became a
member of the Ottawa tribe. He built a dwelling and a store. His home,
near the present town of Ottawa, Kas., became a noted place in early
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history by reason of the intelligent hospitality of the large-minded owner. In 1856, his property was destroyed by the pro-slavery men, but he restored
his dwelling, and lived many years to witness and aid in the prosperity of
Kansas. He was one of the founders of the Ottawa University. He died
in 1873.
91. The picture represents a camp scene at Stevenson, Ala., September
19, 1863, in which COL. JOHN A. MARTIN, of the eighth Kansas regiment,
volunteers, is the central figure in the group. He is surrounded by
officers of his regiment, namely; (1) Maj. Edw. F. Schneider; (2) Capt.
Edgar P. Trego, of Co. H.; [(3) Col. John A. Martin]; (4) Capt. James M.
Graham; (5) Capt. John Conover. This picture is copied from a tintype.
It was placed in the collections of the Kansas State Historical Society
by Governor Martin.
92. EDGAR WATSON HOWE was born in Indiana, in 1854. He has lived
in Kansas almost from boyhood. He established the Atchison Globe,
a daily newspaper, at Atchison, in 1877, and continues to be its editor
and publisher. He is the author of the following volumes: "The Story of
a Country Town," Boston, 1884; "The Mystery of the Locks," 1885; "The
Moonlight Boy," 1886; A Man Story," 1888; "An Ante-Mortem Statment,"
1891. These have been widely read, the first in the list having gone
through more than 20 editions.
93. HON. EUGENE F. WARE is a native of Connecticut. He was a
union soldier in an Iowa regiment in the war of the rebellion, and later
became a member of the staff of Gen. Robert B. Mitchell, of Kansas. Soon
after the war he became a resident of Bourbon county, and has for many
years resided at Fort Scott. He is a lawyer. He was state senator from
1881 to 1885. He is the author of poems, most of which were originally
published in the Fort Scott Monitor, over the signature "Ironquill."
His poems have been universally read and admired. In 1885, they were
compiled and published in a volume entitled "The Rhymes of Ironquill,"
and in 1889 a second edition of the same was published. He is a member
of the board of directors of the State Historical Society.
94. JOHN PRESTON CAMPBELL was born in Boston, in 1849. He
resides at Abilene, Kas.; is a lawyer. He is the author of the following
books, "The Land of Sun and Song," 1888; "Merl of Medevon, and other
Prose Writings," 1888; "My Mate Immortal," 1890; "Poetical Works,"
1885; Queen Sylvia," and other poems, 1886; "The Summerless Sea,"
and other poems, 1888.
95. GOV. ANDREW H. REEDER, after his term of service as the first
governor of Kansas Territory, became a leader of the free-state movement
in the territory. His life became in danger. He was placed by his friends in
concealment at Kansas City, for two weeks. He then escaped, in disguise,
on board a steamboat, reached Alton, Ill., thence Chicago, where, in his
disguise, he was photographed in the presence of Doctor Ray, of the
Chicago Tribune, and Hon. Edward L. Pierce, of Massachusetts. The latter
presented the picture to the Kansas State Historical Society.
96. DAVID R. ATCHISON was born in Kentucky, in 1807. He early became
a resident of western Missouri, as a lawyer; was a member of the state
legislature, judge of the circuit court, and, in 1843, was elected United
States senator, a place which he held until 1855, the last years of the
term of service being president of the senate, and acting vice president
of the United States. He took a zealous part in protecting the interests
of the institution of slavery, and, on the opening of Kansas to settlement,
was a leader in the effort to make Kansas a slave state. His name is
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perpetuated in the names of a county and city in Kansas, and in that of
a great railroad system.
97. GOV. JAMES W. DENVER, was born in Virginia, in 1818. He removed
to Missouri in 1841, and became a lawyer. He was a captain in the
Mexican war, and at the close of the war removed to California; was a
state senator in 1852, and a member of Congress from California in 1855-'57. He was appointed commissioner of Inidan affairs by President
Buchanan, and acted as governor of Kansas Territory from December,
1858, until March, 1859, when he resigned, to again become commissioner
of Indian affairs. He was a brigadier general in the union army, from 1861
to 1863. He died in Washington, in 1892.
98. HON. ELI THAYER was born in Massachusetts, in 1819. He was for
many years prominent as an educator at Worcestor, and was a representative in the Massachusetts legislature at the time of the opening of Kansas
to settlement. He procured a charter for the New England Emigrant Aid
Company, an organization which, through the zeal and engery of Mr.
Thayer, greatly promoted emigration to Kansas from the northern states,
thus contributing very largely to the movements which resulted in making
Kansas a free state. Mr. Thayer was a member of Congress from Massachusetts for two terms, 1857-'61. He has published a volume of congressional
speeches, 1860, and a volume entitled "A History of the Kansas Crusade,
its Friends and its Foes," with an introduction by Rev. Edward Everett
Hale, 1889. He still resides at Worcester, Mass.
99. FREDERICK PERRY STANTON was born in Alexandria, Va., in 1814,
and was educated as a lawyer. In 1834, he became a resident of Tennessee,
which state he represented in Congress for 10 years, 1845-'55. In 1857,
he became secretary of Kansas Territory by appointment of President
Buchanan, and served until January, 1858, a part of the period as acting
governor, rendering very important services to the people of the territory.
He has for many years resided at Farmwell, Va.
100. JOHN BROWN was born in Torrington, Conn., May 9, 1800, and died
at Charlestown, Va., December 2, 1859. He gave his life for the freedom
of the slave. He came to Kansas in the fall of 1855, and spent much of
his time in the territory for more than three years, supporting the free-
state cause and befriending fugitive slaves from Missouri. He was at
Lawrence in the Wakarusa war, December, 1855; at the sacking of
Lawrence, May 21, 1856; at the battle of Osawatomie, August 30, 1856;
at the defense of Lawrence, September 14, 1856; and escorted 11 fugitive
slaves through Kansas in December, 1858, and January, 1859, the last
time he was in Kansas. The bust is a plaster cast from a marble bust
owned by Mrs. Mary E. Stearns, of Medford, Mass., which was made by her
order by Brackett, from measurements taken by him at Charlestown, Va.,
where Captain Brown was awaiting his execution, after condemnation for
his leadership of the Harper's Ferry invasion.
101. MRS. L. A. B. STEELE was born in Marietta, Ohio, October 7, 1833.
She is a daughter of the late Rev. A. Blukely, and the wife of Judge L. S.
Steele. She has for many years resided at Lawrence, Kas. She has written
numerous serials and essays for magazines and newspapers, and is the
author of a volume entitled, "Rev. Adonijah and his Wife's Relations,"
published in New York, in 1879.
102. MRS. MARIA ELIZABETH DE GEER was born in Ireland, November
11, 1835, and early removed to Canada with her parents. She settled in
Scott county, Kansas, in 1879, and was one of the founders of the towns
of Scott City and Sharon Springs, in that county. She afterwards resided
in Topeka, but is now again a resident of Canada. She has been a writer
and lecturer on temperance, prison reform, and other subjects. She studied
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for the legal profession, and practiced law for a number of years while
residing in Kansas, and in 1883 was admitted to practice in the supreme
court of Kansas, being the second woman to be honored with that privilege.
103. COL. ALEXANDER S. JOHNSON was born at the Shawnee Mission labor
school, in Kansas, in 1832; his father, Rev. Thomas Johnson, being at
that time superintendent of the mission. Colonel Johnson has always
resided in Kansas. His home has been for many years at Topeka. He is
the oldest resident of Kansas born in the limits of the state. He has
been a prominent citizen since the beginning of the settlement of Kansas
Territory. He was a member of the first territorial legislature, 1855.
He was lieutenant colonel of the thirteenth regiment Kansas militia in
the defense of the border from the Price raid invasion in 1864. He was
for many years land commissioner of the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe
Railroad Company, and has held many other responsible positions.
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