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A letter written to Kansas Governor Lorenzo Dow Lewelling of Topeka by Susan Orcutt of Mendota, Kansas, telling him about their depressed situation in Trego County. Orcutt tells Lewelling that she and her husband are starving because hail ruined their crops and garden and her husband could not find work.
Creator: Orcutt, Susan
Date: June 29, 1894
Item Number: 214162
Call Number: Governor's Records, Lorenzo Dow Lewelling, Box 3, Folder 13
KSHS Identifier: DaRT ID: 214162
Agriculture - Environment - Weather - Storms - Hail
Agriculture - Family farming
Collections - State Archives - Governor's Records - Lewelling, Lorenzo Dow
Community Life - Disasters and accidents
Date - 1890s - 1894
Government and Politics - State Government - Governors - Lewelling, Lorenzo Dow
Objects and Artifacts - Communication Artifacts - Documentary Artifact - Letter
People - Notable Kansans - Lewelling, Lorenzo Dow, 1846-1900
Places - Counties - Trego
Thematic Time Period - Age of Reform, 1880 - 1917 - Populism, 1890 - 1900
Type of Material - Unpublished documents - Letters
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