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These letters are from various individuals on the National Soldiers Home board to Kansas Governor G. W. Glick. The board wrote trying to establish a U.S. soldiers home in Atchison, Kansas. Ultimately, Leavenworth, Kansas was selected instead. The soldiers home is now called the Dwight D. Eisenhower Medical Center.
Creator: Kansas. Governor (1879-1883: Glick)
Date: 1883-1885
Item Number: 454362
Call Number: Governor's Office, Governor George Washington Glick, Correspondence Files, Subject files , Box 10 Folder 10
KSHS Identifier: DaRT ID: 454362
Built Environment - Areas of Significance - Health/Medicine
Collections - State Archives - Governor's Records - Glick, George Washington
Community Life - Community services - Welfare - Welfare facilities - Soldier's homes
Date - 1880s - 1883
Date - 1880s - 1884
Date - 1880s - 1885
Government and Politics - State Government - Governors - Glick, George Washington
Objects and Artifacts - Communication Artifacts - Documentary Artifact - Correspondence
People - Notable Kansans - Glick, George Washington, 1827-1911
Places - Cities and towns - Atchison
Places - Cities and towns - Leavenworth
Thematic Time Period - Immigration and Settlement, 1854 - 1890
Type of Material - Unpublished documents - Government records - Correspondence
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