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Cyrus K. Holliday, the founder of Topeka, Kansas Territory, wrote from Lawrence, Kansas Territory to his wife, Mary Holliday, in Meadville, Pennsylvania. He told her of his planned trip up the Kansas River, his pleasure in the people of Kansas Territory, and a Thanksgiving dinner he attended. Unwilling to return to Pennsylvania, Holliday expressed desire that Mary come to Kansas Territory and described the construction of a friend's sod-covered "mansion," one such as Clarina I. H. Nichols, a lecturer and writer, inhabited.
Creator: Holliday, Cyrus Kurtz, 1826-1900
Date: December 3, 1854
Item Number: 2710
Call Number: Cyrus Kurtz Holliday Coll. #386 Box 1 Folder 1
KSHS Identifier: DaRT ID: 2710
Built Environment - Function - Domestic
Business and Industry - Occupations/Professions - Entrepreneur
Community Life - Community services - Economic development
Community Life - Events and Celebrations - Holidays
Community Life - Town development - Town companies - Topeka Association
Date - 1854-1860 - 1854
Environment - Landscape
Government and Politics - Political Parties - Free Soil
Government and Politics - Reform and Protest - Antislavery
Government and Politics - Territorial Government - Political parties - Free State
Home and Family - Daily life - Settlement
Home and Family - Family parties and reunions - Holidays - Thanksgiving
Home and Family - Residences
Home and Family - Residences - Sod houses
Military - Wars - Bleeding Kansas
Objects and Artifacts - Communication Artifacts - Documentary Artifact - Letter
People - Notable Kansans - Holliday, Cyrus Kurtz, 1826-1900
People - Notable Kansans - Nichols, Clarina Irene Howard, 1810-1885
People - Women
Places - Cities and towns - Lawrence
Places - Cities and towns - Topeka
Places - Counties - Douglas
Places - Counties - Shawnee
Places - Other States - Pennsylvania - Meadville
Places - Rivers - Kansas
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Type of Material - Unpublished documents - Letters
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