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Cyrus K. Holliday, founder of Topeka, Kansas Territory, wrote from "Up the River," Kansas Territory to his wife, Mary Holliday, in Meadville, Pennsylvania, describing the difficult living conditions for him and the other men at the future site of Topeka, where they had been visited by Governor Andrew H. Reeder. Holliday assured his wife of his health and requested that she explain to Mr. Drew Lowry and Mr. McFarland in Pennsylvania why he had not written. He praised the beauty of the country and expressed his vision of its future, ending with a request that she write to him.
Creator: Holliday, Cyrus Kurtz, 1826-1900
Date: December 10, 1854
Item Number: 2714
Call Number: Cyrus Kurtz Holliday Coll. #386 Box 1 Folder 1
KSHS Identifier: DaRT ID: 2714
Business and Industry - Occupations/Professions - Entrepreneur
Collections - Manuscript - Holliday, Cyrus Kurtz
Community Life - Community services - Economic development
Community Life - Scenes and views
Community Life - Town development - Town companies - Topeka Association
Date - 1854-1860 - 1854
Environment - Landscape
Government and Politics - Political Parties - Free Soil
Government and Politics - Reform and Protest - Antislavery
Government and Politics - Territorial Government - Governors - Reeder, Andrew H
Government and Politics - Territorial Government - Political parties - Free State
Home and Family - Daily life - Health and Hygiene
Home and Family - Daily life - Settlement
Objects and Artifacts - Communication Artifacts - Documentary Artifact - Letter
People - Notable Kansans - Holliday, Cyrus Kurtz, 1826-1900
People - Women
Places - Cities and towns - Topeka
Places - Counties - Shawnee
Places - Other States - Pennsylvania - Meadville
Places - Rivers - Kansas
Thematic Time Period - Bleeding Kansas, 1854 - 1861
Thematic Time Period - Immigration and Settlement, 1854 - 1890
Type of Material - Unpublished documents - Letters
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