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Anthony and Havens Family PapersPapers, 1837-1986
Administrative InformationPREFERRED CITATION{Identification of Item}{Department Name}{Call # or Record Group#}Kenneth Spencer Research Library, University of Kansas Acquisition InformationGift, Mary Bess Anthony Coughlin and Marion N. Anthony (Mrs. Daniel Read Anthony III). Return to the Table of Contents RestrictionsRESTRICTIONS on ACCESSNo access restrictions RESTRICTIONS on USESpencer Library staff may determine use restrictions dependent on the physical condition of manuscript materials. Return to the Table of Contents Separated MaterialPhotographs from the Anthony and Havens Family Papers are located at RH MS-P 555. Books and periodicals from the collection are those of the Havens family, and have been separately cataloged and classified within holdings of the Spencer Research Library. Catalog records for these titles note their identity as a part of the Anthony and Havens Family Papers. Anthony and Havens Family, Photographs, RH MS-P 555 Return to the Table of Contents INDEX TERMS
Names: Anthony, Daniel Read, 1824-1904.
Anthony, Daniel Read, 1870-1931.
Anthony, Daniel Read, 1900-1986.
Havens, Paul Egbert, 1839-1913.
Jennison, Charles Rainsford, 1834-1884.
Lane, James Henry, 1814-1866.
Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919.
Taft, William H. (William Howard), 1857-1930.
White, William Allen, 1868-1944.
Coolidge, Calvin, 1872-1933.
Harding, Warren G. 1865-1923. (Warren Gamaliel).
Landon, Alfred M. (Alfred Mossman), 1887-1987.
Family names:Anthony, Susan B. (Susan Brownell), 1820-1906.
Organizations: Leavenworth Daily Times.
Leavenworth Times.
Subjects: Anthony family.
Frey family.
Havens family.
Journalists—Kansas.
Leavenworth (Kan.)—History.
United States. Army. Kansas Cavalry Regiment, 7th (1861-1865)—History.
Return to the Table of Contents BIOGRAPHY OF Anthony and Havens FamilyThe two families represented in this collection are those of Colonel Daniel Read Anthony and Paul Egbert Havens, who were leading businessmen and public officials in the early history of Leavenworth, Kansas. Colonel Anthony was a pioneering newspaperman and Civil War commander, whose fiery temperament and political rivalries embroiled him in controversy. Paul Havens, elected to the first Kansas legislature at the age of twenty-two, became a leading Leavenworth entrepreneur and banker. Unlike Colonel Anthony, Havens was reserved in public life, and his private life centered on family and the arts. The families of the two formally intersected on June 21, 1897 in the marriage of Colonel Anthony’s son Daniel Read Anthony, Jr. to Paul Havens’ daughter Elizabeth. Preserved by their son Daniel Read Anthony III and passed to his heirs, the Anthony and Havens Family Papers reflect the lives of the following persons: Colonel Daniel Read Anthony(1824-1904)Born on August 22, 1824 at Adams, Massachusetts to Daniel and Lucy (Read) Anthony. His siblings included national women’s suffrage leader Susan B. Anthony. He was a member of the first colony sent to Kansas Territory in 1854 by the New England Emigrant Aid Society of Massachusetts. Anthony settled in Leavenworth in 1857. At the outbreak of the Civil War, he joined the 1st Kansas Cavalry, which later became the 7th Kansas Volunteers (Jennison’s Jayhawks). In November 1861, he commanded its first victory over Missouri forces at the Battle of the Little Blue. Anthony’s Leavenworth newspaper ownership began with the Conservative in 1861, and culminated in 1871 with the Leavenworth Times, whose management remained in the Anthony family for nearly a century. Colonel Anthony served two terms as Leavenworth postmaster, one term as Leavenworth mayor, and was a founder of the Kansas State Historical Society. He died at Leavenworth on November 12, 1904. Wife: Annie Osborn of Edgartown, Massachusetts. Children: son Daniel Read Anthony, Jr. and daughters Susan B. and Maude.
Daniel Read Anthony, Jr.(1870-1931)Born on August 22, 1870 at Leavenworth, Kansas to Colonel Daniel Read and Annie (Osborn) Anthony. He earned a law degree from the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, served as Leavenworth postmaster from 1898 to 1902, and as Leavenworth mayor from 1903 to 1905. In 1904, Anthony succeeded his father as manager and editor of the Leavenworth Daily Times, and in 1907 was elected Kansas Representative to the U.S. House of Representatives to fill the vacancy left by U.S. Senator-elect Charles Curtis. He was re-elected to ten succeeding Congresses and served as chairman of the Committee on Appropriations in the Seventieth Congress. Ill health prompted Anthony’s retirement from the Congress in 1929, and he died at Leavenworth on August 4, 1931. Wife: Elizabeth Havens of Leavenworth. Children: son Daniel Read Anthony III and daughter Eleanor.
Daniel Read Anthony III(1900-1986)Born on February 10, 1900 at Leavenworth, Kansas to Daniel Read Anthony, Jr. and Elizabeth (Havens) Anthony. He attended the University of Kansas, and in 1926 succeeded his father as owner and manager of the Leavenworth Times. In 1956, he named as the Times’ co-publisher his son Daniel Read Anthony IV. Anticipated succession of the newspaper’s ownership within the Anthony family ended tragically in 1959 when Daniel Read Anthony IV died in the crash of his light plane. In 1962, D. R. Anthony III was awarded the William Allen White Foundation’s Citation for Journalistic Merit. He sold the Times in 1966. Daniel Read Anthony III died on September 14, 1986 at Leavenworth. Wife: Marion Montgomery. Children: son Daniel Read Anthony IV and daughter Mary Bess.
Paul Egbert Havens(1839-1913)Born on May 4, 1939 at Ephratah, New York to Ceballos Daniel Paul and Eleanor (Frey) Havens. In 1858, Havens moved to the Kansas Territory, where he became deputy clerk for the court in Jefferson County and then clerk of the District Court for Jefferson County. In 1861, he was elected to the first Kansas House of Representatives, representing Shawnee, Jefferson, and Jackson counties. Havens moved to Leavenworth in 1863, where he entered into banking and in 1872 became a charter director of the Kansas Central Railway, established by local capital to build a railroad to Denver.
In 1876, Havens constructed a large mill at Leavenworth, which he owned and operated with his brother Arthur until its destruction by fire in 1882. Havens was named the first president of the Leavenworth National Bank in 1883, a position that he held until his death on May 6, 1913. Wife: Matilda Moore. Children: daughters Eleanor and Elizabeth (Mrs. Daniel Read Anthony, Jr.).
Return to the Table of Contents SCOPE and CONTENTSThe Anthony and Havens Family Papers are arranged in four series: the papers of Colonel Daniel Read Anthony, of Daniel Read Anthony, Jr., of Daniel Read Anthony III, and of Paul E. Havens. Within the four series, the Anthony papers comprise the larger portion, dating from the 1831s to the 1980s and encompassing three generations of family members. The papers of Paul Havens date primarily from the 1880s—during the years of his daughters’ childhood and adolescence. With few exceptions, most papers in the series are subarranged under the heading of Personal Papers, Business Papers, Military Papers, or Political Papers. Within these categories, general correspondence appears first, followed by topical folders—some of which also include correspondence. Arrangement of items within folders is chronological except as noted in the series description. Envelopes appear immediately following their respective letters. The collection’s personal papers consist largely of family letters. Of note in those of Daniel Read Anthony, Jr. and Daniel Read Anthony III is the small quantity of clippings, memorabilia, and correspondence related to women’s suffrage leader Susan B. Anthony—separately foldered and labeled as such. The business papers in each series relate primarily to the career and investments of the individual for whom the series is named. Photographs from the Anthony and Havens Family Papers are located at RH MS-P 555. Books and periodicals from the collection are those of the Havens family, and have been separately cataloged and classified within holdings of the Spencer Research Library. Catalog records for these titles note their identity as a part of the Anthony and Havens Family Papers. Return to the Table of Contents SERIES LISTColonel Daniel Read Anthony. Papers,1857-1902 85 folders.
Personal papers in this series contain a small quantity of family letters and family-related news clippings, including those regarding the drowning death of Anthony’s teenage daughter Susan B. Also included is a published medical account of Colonel Anthony’s remarkable recovery from a mortal gunshot wound, inflicted in 1875 by a political adversary. The more numerous business papers contain chronological files of incoming letters and invoices—many of which are pasted together at their upper corners in reverse chronological order. These files relate to wide-ranging topics, including operations of the Leavenworth Times, Colonel Anthony’s political activities and public offices, and purchase invoices for his farm at Huron, Kansas. Following these files are topical folders which include correspondence, agreements, and financial statements related to the Leavenworth Times; papers concerning Anthony’s work in the insurance business, as Leavenworth postmaster, and as Leavenworth mayor; certificates of his stockholdings; deeds and other records of his real estate holdings; and miscellaneous papers related to litigation in which he was involved. The topical folders contain several letters not written to or by Colonel Anthony, but between his contemporaries. One such letter, bearing messages between Civil War commanders Charles R. Jennison and James H. Lane, appears in Anthony’s military papers. Others appear in his business papers, within 1859-1866 correspondence. Daniel Read Anthony, Jr. Papers1837-1931
28 folders. The personal papers of Daniel Anthony, Jr. include letters of condolence received upon the death of his father, his father’s estate papers, letters from family members, and letters to his son Daniel Read Anthony III. Contents of the latter are both personal and business-related in nature, as they address matters of Leavenworth Times management in his absence from Leavenworth. Business papers unrelated to Anthony’s political career are few in number and largely concern the Times. The series’ political papers concern Anthony’s term as Leavenworth mayor and his long term in the U.S. House of Representatives. Papers related to the latter include telegrams and signed letters from U.S. Presidents Taft, Harding, and Theodore Roosevelt. Daniel Read Anthony III. Papers1899-1986 78 folders. Personal papers in this series include various birth and baptismal records of immediate family members, as well as family correspondence, memorabilia, clippings, and family estate papers. The business papers contain correspondence and clippings regarding operations and history of the Leavenworth Times, its sale, and records of Anthony’s professional memberships and honors, including correspondence and clippings regarding his 1962 William Allen White Foundation award. Anthony’s papers include a number of signed letters from Kansas editor and author E. W. Howe, former Kansas Governor Alf Landon, and Kansas editor and author William Allen White. Paul E. Havens. Papers1838-1929 50 folders. The Havens papers consist largely of Havens family letters. Of these, most are from the 1880s, when Paul Havens’ daughter Elizabeth was in childhood and his daughter Eleanor was in young adulthood. The family letters include Paul Havens’ correspondence with his wife, letters from his daughters, and letters from his siblings and their children. Family letters to Paul Havens are separately arranged and identified by name of the correspondent, including identification of the correspondent’s relationship to Paul Havens, if known. Arrangement within each folder is chronological. Among Paul Havens’ incoming family letters, many are from his daughter Eleanor, written between 1883 and 1885 from New York City while attending the Art Students’ League of New York. Letters from his daughter Elizabeth, though few, include one written on the day of her wedding to Daniel Read Anthony, Jr. The personal papers include a published history of the Frey family, which chronicles the ancestry of Paul Havens’ mother. The collection’s business papers are small in number and primarily concern Havens’ banking and insurance interests. With only one exception, the papers which postdate Paul Havens’ death are comprised of his widow’s estate papers.
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