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Stebbins was building a telegraph line from St. Louis, Missouri, to Leavenworth, Kansas Territory, and wrote Gray about what would be required to get him to run the line through Quindaro, Kansas Territory. Stebbins included a draft of a document for raising subscriptions to underwrite the cost of building the telegraph line. Details included maintaining a telegraph office in Quindaro for a year and providing up to $1000 in telegraph services if $1000 was raised to pay to Stebbins.
Creator: Stebbins, Charles M.
Date: September 18, 1858
Item Number: 1000
Call Number: Gray Coll. No. 361, Box 1, Folder Titled Correspondence 1855-79
KSHS Identifier: DaRT ID: 1000
Business and Industry - Media/Communications - Telegraph
Collections - Manuscript - Gray, Alfred
Community Life - Town development
Date - 1854-1860 - 1858
Objects and Artifacts - Communication Artifacts - Documentary Artifact - Letter
Places - Cities and towns - Leavenworth
Places - Cities and towns - Quindaro
Places - Counties - Leavenworth
Places - Counties - Wyandotte
Places - Other States - Missouri
Places - Other States - Missouri - St. Louis
Thematic Time Period - Bleeding Kansas, 1854 - 1861
Thematic Time Period - Immigration and Settlement, 1854 - 1890
Type of Material - Unpublished documents - Letters
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