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This letter dated February 13, 1886 is from the Barber County, Kansas Clerk, J. Walstead, regarding the office of coroner to Kansas Governor John Martin. Walstead wrote to announce and confirm a vacancy in the office of coroner due to the death of the former coroner, H. W. Meurcke. Barber County was organized on April 14, 1874. The county was named for Thomas Barber, a freestater from Ohio who was killed on the road between Bloomington and Lawrence during the Wakarusa War in 1855 by proslavery men.
Creator: Kansas. Governor (1885-1889 : Martin)
Date: 1885-1889
Item Number: 454854
Call Number: Governor's Office, Governor John Alexander Martin, Correspondence Files, Subject files , Box 13 Folder 13
KSHS Identifier: DaRT ID: 454854
Collections - State Archives - Governor's Records - Martin, John Alexander
Date - 1880s - 1885
Date - 1880s - 1886
Date - 1880s - 1887
Date - 1880s - 1888
Date - 1880s - 1889
Government and Politics - Local Government - County - Clerk
Government and Politics - Local Government - County - Coroner
Government and Politics - State Government - Governors - Martin, John Alexander
Objects and Artifacts - Communication Artifacts - Documentary Artifact - Correspondence
People - Notable Kansans - Martin, John Alexander, 1839-1889
Places - Counties - Barber
Thematic Time Period - Age of Reform, 1880 - 1917
Thematic Time Period - Immigration and Settlement, 1854 - 1890
Thematic Time Period - Industrialization and the National Economy, 1870 - 1920
Type of Material - Unpublished documents - Government records - Correspondence
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