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This photograph shows a formal portrait of Charles Wolcott Smith, (1831-1907). Smith a native of Portage County, Ohio, migrated to Lawrence, Kansas in 1854 from Lowell, Massachusetts as a member of the New England Emigrant Aid Company. A carpenter by trade, Smith was fortunate to escape from danger during Quantrill's Raid on August 21, 1863, as he was working on a building west of town. When he received word of the raid, Smith immediately came to the rescue to build wooden boxes for the deceased. On July 30, 1907, Smith died at the age of seventy-five at the home of his daughter Allie Omstead in Lawrence, Kansas.
Date: Between 1880s and 1900s
Item Number: 219487
Call Number: B Smith Charles W. *1
KSHS Identifier: DaRT ID: 219487
Business and Industry - Occupations/Professions - Carpenters
Collections - Photograph
Date - 1880s
Date - 1890s
Date - 1900s
Government and Politics - Reform and Protest - Antislavery
Military - Wars - Civil War - Quantrill's raid
Objects and Artifacts - Communication Artifacts - Documentary Artifact - Photograph
People - Notable People - Quantrill, William Clarke, 1837-1865
Places - Cities and towns - Lawrence
Places - Counties - Douglas
Thematic Time Period - Bleeding Kansas, 1854 - 1861
Type of Material - Photographs
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