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This is a photograph of Edmund Burke Whitman who was born on October 18, 1812 in East Bridgewater, Massachusetts. He attended Phillips Exeter Academy and graduated from Harvard University in 1838. He was involved in anti-slavery and temperance societies, and in 1855, he moved his family to Lawrence, Kansas to join the struggle against pro-slavery forces. After the Civil War, he was Superintendent of National Cemeteries and a member of the Kansas State Board of Agriculture's executive committee. Later, Whitman taught briefly in Louisville, Kentucky, and returned to Cambridge, where he lived until his death on September 2, 1883.
Date: Between 1860 and 1869
Item Number: 228950
Call Number: B Whitman, Edmund B. *1
KSHS Identifier: DaRT ID: 228950
Collections - Photograph
Date - 1861-1869
Government and Politics - Reform and Protest - Antislavery
Objects and Artifacts - Communication Artifacts - Documentary Artifact - Photograph
People - Notable Kansans - Whitman, Edmund Burke, 1812-1883
Places - Cities and towns - Lawrence
Places - Counties - Douglas
Thematic Time Period - Bleeding Kansas, 1854 - 1861
Type of Material - Photographs
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