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These bound volumes contain the records of the third, fifth, sixth, and seventh districts of the Kansas Woman's Christian Temperance Union. The third district included Chautauqua, Cherokee, Cowley, Crawford, Elk, Labette, Montgomery, Neosho, and Wilson County. Jennie M. Kemp was president of the third district (1891-1898) and kept a detailed record of cities within this region that had their own local unions, organizational history, and leadership. Secretaries Ada A. Robinson, Lelia C. Kerwig, Mollie E. Smith, Dora E. Cogdal, and Mary Evelyn Dobbs (later president) recorded the proceedings of the third district from 1895-1908. The fifth district included Clay, Cloud, Davis (now Geary), Dickinson, Marshall, Ottawa, Republic, Riley, Saline, and Washington County. The books for the fifth district include detailed minutes of convention proceedings beginning with the first on March 19, 1885 in Concordia and continuing until 1915. The sixth district included Cheyenne, Decatur, Ellis, Ellsworth, Gove, Graham, Jewell, Lincoln, Logan, Mitchell, Norton, Osborne, Phillips, Rawlins, Rooks, Russell, Sheridan, Sherman, Smith, Thomas, Trego, and Wallace County. The sixth district was organized in Downs on February 24, 1886 under President Eugenia F. St. John. Convention proceedings for the sixth district are recorded in four bound volumes from 1886-1916. The seventh district records, including photographs of State President Mrs. E. P. Hutchinson, District President Anna M. Taylor, and other officers, cover Barber, Barton, Clark, Edwards, Ford, Gray, Harper, Harvey, Hodgeman, Kingman, Kiowa, McPherson, Meade, Ness, Pawnee, Pratt, Reno, Rice, Rush, Sedgwick, Seward, Stafford, Sumner, and Stevens County. There are several other groups of official Kansas WCTU records on Kansas Memory. They can be found by selecting Collections - Manuscript - KWCTU/Mary Evelyn Dobbs.
Date: 1885 - 1916
Item Number: 227586
Call Number: Kansas Woman's Christian Temperance Union/Mary Evelyn Dobbs Coll. #170, Box 9-10
KSHS Identifier: DaRT ID: 227586
Collections - Manuscript - KWCTU/Mary Evelyn Dobbs
Community Life - Clubs and organizations - Reform/Advocacy - Woman's Christian Temperance Union
Date - 1880s
Date - 1890s
Date - 1900s
Date - 1910s
Government and Politics - Reform and Protest - Prohibition and temperance
Objects and Artifacts - Communication Artifacts - Documentary Artifact - Book
Objects and Artifacts - Communication Artifacts - Documentary Artifact - Minutes
Objects and Artifacts - Communication Artifacts - Documentary Artifact - Newspaper - clipping
People - Notable Kansans - Dobbs, Mary E.
Places - Counties - Barber
Places - Counties - Chautauqua
Places - Counties - Cherokee
Places - Counties - Clark
Places - Counties - Cloud
Places - Counties - Crawford
Places - Counties - Davis (1855-1889)
Places - Counties - Edwards
Places - Counties - Elk
Places - Counties - Ellsworth
Places - Counties - Gray
Places - Counties - Harper
Places - Counties - Kingman
Places - Counties - Kiowa
Places - Counties - Labette
Places - Counties - Marshall
Places - Counties - Montgomery
Places - Counties - Neosho
Places - Counties - Ness
Places - Counties - Ottawa
Places - Counties - Saline
Places - Counties - Sedgwick
Places - Counties - Seward
Places - Counties - Stafford
Places - Counties - Stevens
Places - Counties - Sumner
Places - Counties - Wilson
Type of Material - Unpublished documents - Organization records
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