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Small half-round leather coin purse with metal snap frame. Interior is fitted with smaller fixed purse, creating a total of three compartments. Hinged nickel-plated metal frame with brass snap lock. This coin purse belonged to James Burnett Abbott, an early arrival in Kansas Territory. Abbott came to Lawrence with other New England abolitionists in 1854 and became involved in efforts to make Kansas a free state. He joined the militia and participated in the Battle of Black Jack and the 1856 defense of Lawrence. While agent to the Shawnee tribe, he led a party of them in the Price Raid of 1864. Abbott served in the first Kansas House of Representatives and later as a state senator.
Date: between 1870 and 1895
Item Number: 224281
Call Number: 1898.6.43
KSHS Identifier: 1898.6.43
Collections - Museum
Date - 1870s
Date - 1880s
Date - 1890s
Government and Politics - State Government - Legislature - House of Representatives
Government and Politics - State Government - Legislature - Senate
Objects and Artifacts - Personal Artifacts - Personal Gear - Purse - Change
People - Notable Kansans - Abbott, James Burnett, 1818-1897
Places - Cities and towns - De Soto
Places - Counties - Johnson
Type of Material - Objects and Artifacts
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