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This folder contains two letters, typewritten notes, and a brochure. Eileen Charbo sent the first letter, written March 10, 1976 in Mexico City, to Joe Snell, former Secretary of the Kansas Historical Society. In it Charbo explains that she is enclosing another letter--written April 4, 1966 in Mankato, Kansas--from her uncle Clare Jones (her mother's older brother) and aunt Mabel Zoe (Brown) Jones. The Jones' letter discusses farm life and family members in the 1890s, including Henry Osborne Benedict, Charbo's great-grandfather, who was involved with the Kansas-Sinaloa Investment Company. This Kansas corporation, founded in 1889, tried to establish a socialist utopian community on Topolobampo Bay, Old Mexico. Benedict lived there for over two years, but returned "a broken man." The Kansas-Sinaloa Investment Company's charter, which lists the Kansans who were officers of the company, is linked below. An eight-page brochure titled, "Copper Canyon: Majestic Caverns of the Tarahumara," and two pages about "Points of Interest" in Chihuahua city are also displayed here.
Creator: Charbo, Eileen
Date: Bulk 1966 - 1976
Item Number: 46993
Call Number: Manuscripts Collection Miscellaneous Charbo, Eileen
KSHS Identifier: DaRT ID: 46993
Agriculture - Crops - Corn
Business and Industry - Occupations/Professions - Farmers
Collections - Manuscript
Community Life - Town development - Collective/Utopian communities
Date - 1890s
Date - 1960s - 1966
Date - 1970s - 1976
Government and Politics - Reform and Protest - Socialism
Home and Family - Daily life
Objects and Artifacts - Communication Artifacts - Documentary Artifact - Letter
People - Notable Kansans
Places - Cities and towns - Bennington
Places - Cities and towns - Enterprise
Places - Counties - Dickinson
Places - Counties - Ottawa
Thematic Time Period - Immigration and Settlement, 1854 - 1890
Type of Material - Unpublished documents - Letters
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