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Joseph Trego wrote from Sugar Mound, Kansas Territory, to his wife, Alice, in Illinois. Trego reported that the mill was finally up and running, leaving them to occupy themselves with housekeeping and construction of outbuildings near the mill; he had decided to delay building a new home for his family until the spring. Trego responded to his wife's concerns about free state and proslavery skirmishing in the area, conveying his confidence that "truly there is no probability of the people here at Sugar Mound being molested" by them.
Creator: Trego, Joseph H. (Joseph Harrington), 1823-1905
Date: January 9, 1858
Item Number: 5903
Call Number: Joseph Harrington Trego Coll.No. 523 Box 1 Folder 1
KSHS Identifier: DaRT ID: 5903
Built Environment - Function - Agriculture/Subsistence - Agricultural Outbuilding
Business and Industry - Construction - Building materials - Lumber
Business and Industry - Construction - Building materials - Sawmills
Business and Industry - Labor - Domestic servants
Business and Industry - Occupations/Professions - Construction
Collections - Manuscript - Trego, Joseph Harrington
Community Life - Community services - Economic development
Community Life - Town development - Town companies
Date - 1854-1860 - 1858
Environment - Natural resources - Timber
Government and Politics - Reform and Protest - Antislavery
Home and Family - Daily life
Home and Family - Daily life - Settlement
Objects and Artifacts - Communication Artifacts - Documentary Artifact - Letter
People - Notable Kansans - Trego, Joseph Harrington
Places - Cities and towns - Mound City
Places - Cities and towns - Sugar Mound
Places - Counties - Linn
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Type of Material - Unpublished documents - Letters
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