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These four photographs show newspaper editor and publisher Frank Pitts MacLennan, 1855-1933, a native of Springfield, Ohio. Frank moved with his family to Emporia, Kansas in 1870 and began his newspaper career by working for the Emporia Daily News in 1877. He worked in the "mechanical, reportorial, business, and editorial" departments before becoming an equal partner in the Emporia Daily News in 1880. He later sold his interest in the paper in 1885. On October 30,1885, MacLennan purchased the Topeka State Journal, the official state paper of Kansas and the city of Topeka, Kansas. He served as the editor and publisher until he passed away at the age of seventy-eight on November 18, 1933. In 1955 MacLennan's widow Margaret "Madge" Overstreet MacLennan bequeathed their home, Cedar Crest, and the surrounding land to the state of Kansas to be used as the executive residence for the governor of Kansas.
Creator: Parkinson, New York
Date: Between 1880 and 1933
Item Number: 310314
Call Number: B MacLennan Frank P. *1-4
KSHS Identifier: DaRT ID: 310314
Built Environment - Building name - Cedar Crest (Topeka, Kan.)
Business and Industry - Media/Communications - Newspaper - Emporia Daily News
Business and Industry - Media/Communications - Newspaper - Topeka State Journal
Business and Industry - Occupations/Professions - Publishers
Collections - Photograph
Date - 1880s
Date - 1890s
Date - 1900s
Date - 1910s
Date - 1920s
Date - 1930s
Objects and Artifacts - Communication Artifacts - Documentary Artifact - Photograph
People - Notable Kansans - MacLennan, Frank P.
Places - Cities and towns - Emporia
Places - Counties - Lyon
Type of Material - Photographs
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