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This sepia colored cabinet card shows Jonathan Coleman Burnett (1825-1899). A lawyer from Morristown, Vermont he migrated, in the spring of 1857, to Leavenworth, Kansas. His arrival in the Kansas territory prompted him and seven other Vermonters to organize a "Vermont Colony". The group set out for southeast Kansas, in May of 1857, and founded the town of Mapleton in Bourbon County. The town never developed into a thriving community but Burnett remained in the area. As anti-slavery forces debated the future of the territory, Burnett was chosen, in 1859, as a delegate to the Wyandotte Convention. He represented Bourbon, McGee and Dorn counties. After the convention he continued his career as a public servant by serving as a land office register in Humboldt, and in Ft. Scott. In 1861, Burnett was elected as a Republican to the first Kansas senate from the Ninth District of Bourbon County. Later in life he moved to Lawrence, Kansas to work as a director and land commissioner for the Leavenworth, Lawrence, & Galveston Railroad. He also pursed farming and livestock raising in Russell County. On July 2, 1899, Jonathan Burnett died at the age of 74 in Wichita, Kansas and was buried in Lawrence, Kansas.
Creator: Martin, T.H.
Date: Between 1870 and 1880
Item Number: 217228
Call Number: B Burnett, J.C. *1
KSHS Identifier: DaRT ID: 217228
Collections - Photograph
Date - 1854-1860
Date - 1861-1869
Government and Politics - Political Parties - Republican
Government and Politics - Territorial Government - Constitution Making - Wyandotte Constitution
Government and Politics - Territorial Government - Legislatures
Government and Politics - Territorial Government - Political parties - Free State
Objects and Artifacts - Communication Artifacts - Documentary Artifact - Photograph - Cabinet cards
Places - Cities and towns - Lawrence
Places - Cities and towns - Mapleton
Places - Cities and towns - Wichita
Places - Counties - Bourbon
Places - Counties - Dorn (1855-1861)
Places - Counties - Douglas
Places - Counties - McGee (1855-1860)
Places - Counties - Sedgwick
Thematic Time Period - Bleeding Kansas, 1854 - 1861
Transportation - Railroads - Companies - Leavenworth, Lawrence and Galveston Railroad Company
Type of Material - Photographs - Format - Cabinet cards
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