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A petition, comprising of sixty-four pages, from voters of Oberlin, Kansas asking Kansas Governor St. John to designate Decatur County as the Temporary County Seat of Decatur County.
Creator: Kansas. Governor (1879-1883 : St. John)
Date: December 1879
Item Number: 455727
Call Number: Governor's Office, Governor John Pierce St. John, Correspondence Received, Subject Files, Box 7 Folder 18
KSHS Identifier: DaRT ID: 455727
Built Environment - Function - Government
Collections - State Archives - Governor's Records - St. John, John Pierce
Date - 1870s - 1879
Government and Politics - State Government - Governors - St. John, John Pierce
Objects and Artifacts - Communication Artifacts - Documentary Artifact - Correspondence
Objects and Artifacts - Communication Artifacts - Documentary Artifact - Petition
People - Notable Kansans - St. John, John Pierce, 1833-1916
Places - Cities and towns - Oberlin
Places - Counties - Decatur
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Type of Material - Unpublished documents - Government records - Correspondence
http://www.kansasmemory.org/item/455727
