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Statements and recollections of Julia Ann Stinson, wife of Thomas Nesbit Stinson. Julia was born in 1834 at the Shawnee Methodist Indian Mission where she was raised and educated. It was there that she met Thomas Stinson and married him in 1850. A photograph taken on her wedding day is believed to be the first photographic portrait taken west of the Missouri River. Her husband was adopted into the tribe and the couple received a land grant of about 800 acres from a treaty between the U.S. government and the Shawnee Indians. The Stinson's made their home on the land they acquired through the Shawnee settlement. Julia Stinson claimed a relationship to the Shawnee warrior Tecumseh. Shawnee Indians supposedly kidnapped her grandfather who married a cousin of Tecumseh. This is how the future town earned its name. The couple built a home there, established a profitable trading post and ran a post office. Included in these documents are reminiscences of encounters with Andrew Reeder, Chief Abram Burnett, and John C. Fremont.
Creator: Stinson, Julia Ann Beauchemin, 1834-1925
Date: 1895-1914
Item Number: 221211
Call Number: Thomas Nesbit Stinson Coll. #511, Box 2, Folder 3, Julia Ann: Correspondence, 1883-1914
KSHS Identifier: DaRT ID: 221211
Business and Industry - Retail - Trader's store
Collections - Manuscript - Stinson, Thomas Nesbit
Community Life - Town development
Date - 1854-1860
Date - 1861-1869
Date - 1870s
Home and Family - Daily life - Food and Cooking
Home and Family - Death and funerals
Objects and Artifacts - Communication Artifacts - Documentary Artifact - Manuscript
People - American Indians - Indian removal
People - American Indians - Missions - Shawnee Methodist Mission
People - American Indians - Tribes - Potawatomi
People - American Indians - Tribes - Shawnee
People - Notable Kansans - Reeder, Andrew H. (Andrew Horatio), 1807-1864
People - Notable Kansans - Stinson, Thomas N.
People - Notable People - Fremont, John Charles, 1813-1890
Places - Cities and towns - Tecumseh
Places - Counties - Shawnee
Thematic Time Period - Bleeding Kansas, 1854 - 1861
Thematic Time Period - Immigration and Settlement, 1854 - 1890
Transportation - Non-motorized - Riding animals
Transportation - Water - Ferries
Type of Material - Unpublished documents - Manuscript
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