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Register of the Small Plains States Collections,
1841-1938
Mss2
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Title: Small Plains States Collections,
Date (inclusive): 1841-1938
Collection number: Mss2
Creator:
Extent: 0.25 linear ft.
Repository:
University of the Pacific. Library. Holt-Atherton Department of
Special Collections
Stockton, CA 95211
Shelf location: For current information on the location of
these materials, please consult the library's online catalog.
Language: English.
Collection is open for research.
[Identification of item], Small Plains States Collections, Mss2,
Holt-Atherton Department of Special Collections, University of the Pacific
Library
Fort Hays (Kan.) -History -Sources
Droughts -Kansas
Ness County (Kan.) -History -Sources
Frontier and pioneer life -Kansas
Farm life -Kansas
Farm life -Illinois
Smith Center (Kan.) -History -Sources
Leon (Kan.) -History -Sources
United States. Army -Military life -Documentation
Hancock County (Ill.) -History -Sources
Farm life -Minnesota -Mankato
Cookery, American -Recipes
Mankato (Minn.) -History -Sources
Railroads -Texas
Beaumont (Tex.) -History -Sources
Kansas City Southern Railway Company
Farmers -North Dakota -Correspondence
Norwegians -North Dakota -Correspondence
Farm life -Wisconsin
North Dakota -History -Sources
Wisconsin -History -Sources
Farm life -Iowa -Wright County
Women -Iowa -Scranton
Wright County (Iowa) -Social life and customs
Sheldon, Dora Crabtree (1856-1946)
Henry D. Crow was a homesteader at Bazine, Ness County, Kan. This
collection consists of typescript copies of nine family letters describing the
dismal financial situation and drought conditions of that time (1878-1880).
[Ms2.C953]
The Foys were a farming family, first in Illinois (1850s), then in Leon
and in Smith Center, Kansas (1880-1900). John and Rachel Foy apparently settled
in Hancock, Ill. before 1854. Evidence in the correspondence suggests that they
had a nephew, William, who fought in the Civil War. John Foy was apparently
living in Leon, Kan. by 1875. One "Lois," possibly a granddaughter of John and
Rachel Foy was living in Palmdale, Calif. in 1895. A "Grandma" Foy [Rachel?]
wrote to her children in "Equality" [not a Kansas town] as late as 1900. This
collection consists of photocopies of seven family letters describing: farm
life in Illinois (1854); a soldier's life in various Southern locations,
including Savannah, Ga. and Ft. Griffin, Texas (1861, 1864, 1877); a California
emigrant's life in Palmdale (1895); and, farm life in Smith Center, Kan.
(1900). [Ms2.F796]
S.H. Grannis was a Mankato, Minn. farmer and merchant (1840s-1870s).
Little else is known of Grannis save that he was the maternal grandfather of
Leland C. Case, founder of Westerners International and one-time editor of The
Rotarian magazine. Case has identified this account book as having belonged to
Grannis. The book chronicles payment for a wide variety of farmwork, other
services, and houshold goods. The earliest entries date from 1841, but the book
seems to have been used by several individuals for items dating as late as
1879. Toward the end of the volume are some recipes. [Ms2.G759]
Herbert Jonté was a conductor on the Kansas City Southern Railway. This
collection consists of orders advising the conductor on the Beaumont-Vidor
(Texas) passenger run of times when other trains would be using the tracks.
[Ms2.K16]
Ole Tidemandson Kensrud and his brother Erik immigrated from Norway to
America in 1867. They settled first in Iowa, then moved to West Mitchell, Wisc.
(1876-1877), then to Fargo, N.D. (1878) and finally to Hillsboro, N.D., a few
miles north of Fargo (1879). This collection consists of typescript
translations by Anne Kensrud Thykeson of excerpts from letters the two Kensruds
sent to relatives in Norway describing farm life on the Northern Plains. As
many as sixteen letters are excerpted dating between May 1867 and March 1883.
[Ms2.K36]
Dora Sheldon (1856-1946) was born and raised in Wright County, Iowa. She
and her second husband, Newton B. Sheldon, farmed in Scranton, Iowa
(1880-1900). This collection consists of reminiscences by Mrs. Sheldon of her
childhood and early married life in the form of letters to various relatives
(1938). There is also a brief biographical sketch of Mrs. Sheldon by an
anonymous relative. [Ms2.S544]
Company A, 6th Cavalry marched 285 miles from Ft. Hays to Cedarville,
Kan. and back during May and June 1872. Their purpose was to protect new
railroad lines and cattle drives from marauding Indians. This collection
consists of a report listing Company illnesses, injuries and treatments on that
march. [Ms2.U58 C377]