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This collection includes various letters, newspaper clippings, legal instruments and court records from cases in which Dandridge E. Kelsey was either plaintiff or defendant (including the 1890s case involving Kelsey and his son Scott in a dispute over ownership of title to the Shawnee County farm), records regarding Salida, and materials related to his membership in fraternal orders such as the Order of Odd Fellows and the Order of Good Templars. Kelsey served with the 83rd Indiana Infantry, Company B during the Civil War. He traveled around much of the country during his enlistment and then returned to Indiana, though he thereafter began taking exploratory trips out to Kansas. In 1868, after moving to Kansas, he continued his life as a farmer for the next ten years. In 1878, he joined a railroad surveying gang and went to Colorado. Between 1878 and 1892 he divided his time between Kansas and Salida, Colorado, where he was involved in mining, land subdivisions, and other speculative adventures, which apparently did not prosper. He returned permanently to Shawnee County in 1892 and died there in 1904.
Date: 1847-1903
Item Number: 228430
Call Number: Dandridge Epiphalet Kelsey Coll. #166, Box 4
KSHS Identifier: DaRT ID: 228430
Agriculture - Family farming
Business and Industry - Mining and quarrying
Business and Industry - Railroad - Land sales
Collections - Manuscript - Kelsey, D. E.
Community Life - Clubs and organizations
Community Life - Clubs and organizations - Reform/Advocacy - Independent Order of Good Templars
Date - 1840s
Date - 1854-1860
Date - 1861-1869
Date - 1870s
Date - 1880s
Date - 1890s
Date - 1900s
Objects and Artifacts - Communication Artifacts - Documentary Artifact - Correspondence
Objects and Artifacts - Communication Artifacts - Documentary Artifact - Postcard
Places - Counties - Shawnee
Places - Other States - Colorado
Places - Other States - Indiana
Thematic Time Period - Civil War, 1861 - 1865
Type of Material - Unpublished documents - Legal documents
Type of Material - Unpublished documents - Letters
Type of Material - Unpublished documents - Postcard
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