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This cabinet card shows Margaret Walker Lyon Wood,1830-1919). The wife of newspaper publisher and politician Samuel Newitt Wood. The couple migrated in 1854 to the Kansas Territory as abolitionists and supporters of the free-state movement. For a brief period of time the couple resided in Lawrence, Kansas, from 1854 to 1859 before moving in 1859 to Cottonwood Falls, Kansas. Margaret lived a long and fulfilling life in the community until her passing at the age of eighty-nine. Burial was conducted at the Prairie Grove cemetery in Cottonwood Falls, Kansas.
Creator: Dowing, George
Date: Between 1880 and 1899
Item Number: 228841
Call Number: B Wood, Samuel *8
KSHS Identifier: DaRT ID: 228841
Collections - Photograph
Date - 1880s
Date - 1890s
Government and Politics - Reform and Protest - Antislavery
Objects and Artifacts - Communication Artifacts - Documentary Artifact - Photograph - Cabinet cards
People - Notable Kansans - Wood, S. N. (Samuel Newitt)
Places - Cities and towns - Cottonwood Falls
Places - Cities and towns - Lawrence
Places - Counties - Chase
Places - Counties - Douglas
Thematic Time Period - Bleeding Kansas, 1854 - 1861
Type of Material - Photographs - Format - Cabinet cards
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