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These legal documents belonging to James Barnes Whitaker include mortgages, leases, quitclaim deeds, indentures, warrants issued to the Marshal's office, tax and other receipts regarding Whitaker's real estate business. There are also Internal Revenue licenses for various occupations, records on pension and war claims, including forms from the War Department, Treasury Office, and Department of the Interior Pension Office. Bound volumes include a notebook of war claims and a county surveyor field notebook. James Barnes Whitaker had a long association with the territory and state of Kansas. He came to Tecumseh, Shawnee County, Kansas, in 1856 from Boston, Massachusetts, and worked as a surveyor there. In 1857, he moved to Topeka where he remained, serving as county sheriff, surveyor, and Topeka city engineer. He was also commissioned a deputy U.S. Marshal. He owned an abstract and real estate business in Topeka and was an attorney, representing numerous Civil War veterans in obtaining disability pensions, many of whom served in Kansas units.
Date: 1855-1899
Item Number: 228711
Call Number: James Barnes Whitaker Coll. #540, Box 4 - 7
KSHS Identifier: DaRT ID: 228711
Business and Industry - Occupations/Professions - Lawyers
Business and Industry - Occupations/Professions - Surveyors
Business and Industry - Services - Real estate
Collections - Manuscript - Whitaker, James Barnes
Date - 1854-1860
Date - 1861-1869
Date - 1870s
Date - 1880s
Date - 1890s
Government and Politics - Federal Government - Federal agencies and programs - Agencies - Department of Justice
Government and Politics - Federal Government - Federal agencies and programs - Agencies - Department of War
Government and Politics - Federal Government - Federal agencies and programs - Agencies - Interior, Department of
Government and Politics - Federal Government - Federal agencies and programs - Agencies - Treasury
Military - Veterans - Benefits
Objects and Artifacts - Communication Artifacts - Documentary Artifact - Deed
Objects and Artifacts - Communication Artifacts - Documentary Artifact - Mortgage
Objects and Artifacts - Communication Artifacts - Documentary Artifact - Warrant
Places - Cities and towns - Tecumseh
Places - Cities and towns - Topeka
Places - Counties - Shawnee
Type of Material - Unpublished documents - Legal documents
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