Guide to the Lyman Underwood Humphrey Collection Correspondence

Guide to the Lyman Underwood Humphrey Collection

Correspondence


COLLECTION SUMMARY
Repository:	University of Kansas Kenneth Spencer Research Library Kansas Collection 1450 Poplar Lane, Lawrence, KS 66045-7616 Phone: (785) 864 - 4334 Fax: (785) 864-5803 URL: http://spencer.lib.ku.edu nk, 1971; lgg 11 January 73 mg 2004
Creator:	Humphrey, Lyman Underwood, 1844-1915
Title:	Correspondence, documents, and memorabilia.
Dates:	1872-1906
Quantity:	325 items.
Abstract:	Humphrey was governor of Kansas, 1888-1892. This collection of correspondence and documents, which is arranged chronologically, covers the period from 1872 to 1906.
Identification:	RH MS 27

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INDEX TERMS:

Names:

Ingalls, John James, 1833-1900

Hayes, Rutherford Birchard, Pres. U.S., 1822-1893

Leevre, Ferdinand van.,d.1889

Estip, John

Ruff, John

Waller, John L.

Martin, John Alexander, 1839-1889

Pomeroy, Samuel Clarke,1816-1891

Scott, Charles Frederick, 1860-1938

Myers, Gen. Murray

McCabe, Edward P.

Stacey, A. G.

Grass, Daniel

Engle, A. M.

Simpson, W. A.

Smith, James, addressee.

Blackman, Mrs. C. V., addressee.

Martin, George Washington, 1841-1914

Organizations:

Kansas Farmers Fire Insurance Co., Abilene, Kansas.

Woman's Christian Temperance Union. Kansas.

Kansas. Board of Police Commissioners.

People's party of the U.S. Kansas.

Christian Arbitration and Peace Society.

Syndicate Lands and Irrigating Corp., Kansas City, Missouri.

Subjects:

Grand Army of the Republic. Dept. of Kansas.

Bird City, Kansas. History.

Cimarron, Kansas. History.

Democratic Party. Kansas.

El Reno, Oklahoma. History.

Gray County, Kansas. History.

Ingalls, Kansas. History.

Insurance companies. Kansa

Kansas. Governors. Correspondence, reminiscences, etc.

Kansas. History. 1865- .

Kansas. Militia.

Kansas. Politics and government. 1865-

Leavenworth, Kansas. History.

Montgomery County, Kansas. History.

Negroes, Kansas.

Neosho County, Kansas. History.

Presidents. U.S. Election, 1876.

Prohibition. Kansas.

Prohibition. Penn.

Republican Party. Kansas.

Republican Party. Oklahoma.

Women. Suffrage.

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BIOGRAPHY of Humphrey, Lyman Underwood

Humphrey was governor of Kansas, 1888-1892. Before entering politics he edited the South Kansas Tribune (Independence, Kansas) with W. T. Yoe from 1871-1873. He established a law practice in Independence in 1873. In 1876 he was elected to the House of Representatives in the Kansas Legislature and Lieutenant-Governor for an unexpired term, and in 1878 was elected to that office for a full term. Humphrey ran for election to Congress from the 3rd District (Independence, Kansas) in 1892, but lost. For additional biographical information see Portrait and Biographical Record of Southeastern Kansas ... Chicago, 1894.

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SCOPE and CONTENTS

This collection of correspondence and documents, which is arranged chronologically, covers the period from 1872, shortly after Humphrey arrived in Kansas, to 1906. There are 325 items which were arranged into four large groups.

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Collection Description

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