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Akers, George W.
This collection contains material on George W. Akens, physician and Methodist minister, who for nearly 40 years made his home in Stafford, Kansas.
Arthur Bridwell Papers
Bailey Family Papers
Black Jack Battlefield Trust Papers
Don W. Holter Papers
Haun, Milton Mars
This series contains the handwritten correspondence and journals of Milton Mars Haun, a circuit preacher who came to Kansas in 1857. He served in the Kansas, South Kansas, and Southwest Kansas conferences and preached the first sermon in Newton, Kansas in a saloon. In total, Haun served 15 churches in Kansas and died in 1902.
James Griffing Papers
A collection of personal letters of Methodist minster J.S. Griffing from 1854-1868 relating mostly to the settlement of Kansas and methodism during this time, with reference to the continued conflict known as Bloody Kansas. This collection also includes supplmentary materials on Griffing and documents relating to the creation and matinence of the collection itself.
John Henry Deering Papers
This collection contains the diary of John Henry Deering, an early Kansas settler. He began the diary in 1856 in Maine. There is a break of one year, then the diary resumes in the Kansas Territory in 1858. A transcription of the 1858 section is included.
Liberal District
The Liberal District of the Southwest Kansas Conference began in 1918. It ceased to exist in 1939 when three of the four Methodist conferences in Kansas combined to become the Central Kansas Conference.
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