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Thomas Webb, Secretary of the New England Emigrant Aid Company, wrote to Isaac Goodnow, indicating his overwhelming approval for the creation of a college in Manhattan, Kansas Territory, not knowing of a "more beautiful and eligible spot than the one selected." Webb communicated his pride in the fact that a Free State supporter would be the one to initiate such a project, and told Goodnow he had recently received a $12,000 donation from a Massachusetts man, which was to support the college.
Creator: Webb, Thomas H. (Thomas Hopkins), 1801-1866
Date: July 21, 1858
Item Number: 3745
Call Number: Isaac Goodnow Coll. #357, Box 2 Folder 11
KSHS Identifier: DaRT ID: 3745
Business and Industry - Occupations/Professions - Educators
Collections - Manuscript - Goodnow, Isaac
Community Life - Town development - Town companies - New England Emigrant Aid Company
Date - 1854-1860 - 1858
Education - Higher education - Institutions - Bluemont Central College
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
Military - Wars - Bleeding Kansas
Objects and Artifacts - Communication Artifacts - Documentary Artifact - Letter
People - Notable Kansans - Goodnow, Isaac T., 1814-1894
People - Notable People - Webb, Thomas Hopkins, 1801-1866
Places - Cities and towns - Manhattan
Places - Counties - Riley
Places - Other States - Massachusetts - Boston
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Type of Material - Unpublished documents - Letters
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