Guide to the George C. Angle Collection

George C. Angle papers, 1874-1906

Administrative Information

PREFERRED CITATION

George C. Angle Collection, Kansas Collection, RH MS 47, Kenneth Spencer Research Library, University of Kansas

ACQUISITION INFORMATION

Purchase, Smoky Hill Booksellers, 1958

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Restrictions

RESTRICTIONS on ACCESS

None

RESTRICTIONS on USE

Spencer Library staff may determine use restrictions dependent on the physical condition of manuscript materials.

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Related Material

Related printed materials, campaign posters, anti-Populist and free silver propaganda are cataloged separately. See Angle, George C. [Collection of Republican Party campaign literature and political ephemera, 1878-1902] RH H111.

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BIOGRAPHY OF George C. Angle

Angle, a Republican politician from Bainesville, Kansas, was active as precinct organizer and minor political functionary in the Kansas Republican party. He entered politics in 1892 in North Osage Township, Bourbon County, remaining active in Republican circles until around 1906.

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SCOPE and CONTENTS

The collection contains correspondence, lists of voters, clippings, minutes of local political conventions, and similar materials in five boxes. The correspondence includes family letters, letters from the Republican State Central Committee (Topeka) and the Bourbon County Central Committee (Fort Scott).

One group of family letters is from Sergeant Fred Clendening, Co. F, 20th Kansas Infantry, Manilla dating from 1898 to 1899. Other Angle correspondents include Justin DeWitt Bowersock, Joseph L. Bristow, J. J. Ingalls, Francis H. Snow, Preston B. Plumb, and others.

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COLLECTION DESCRIPTION