Author: jmk
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Charity Alice McKenney
As I’m going to be posting an 1883 diary of Charity Alice McKenney, I thought it might be a good idea to first do a post giving a bit of background on her. Charity, the fifth of six known children, was born 1856 October 31 in Lake Minnetonka, Hennepin, Minnesota to Robert Eugene McKenney and…
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Addie McKenney and Samuel McWhirt
Addie Mae MCKINNEY/MCKENNEY, daughter of George Washington McKINNEY and Isabella LOVE, was born 10 Oct. 1864 in Boone Co., IA and died 26 March 1952. She married Samuel Alvin MCWHIRT in 1881/1882 in Kansas, moved first to Missouri and then on to the Osage Reserve in Oklahoma. Samuel Alvin MCWHIRT was born 9 Dec. 1859…
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Samuel Bartow and Mary S. McKenney
BARTOW, Samuel born in Ohio, April 18th, 1818. When nineteen, bought a farm in Monroe county. Lived there until the fall of 1849, when he located in Bartholomew county, Indiana. Lived there three years, teaching school part of the time, then went to Council Bluffs, Iowa, and St. Louis, Mo.; from there by steamer to…
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William McKenney (McKinney) and Esther Yarnell
Are you a descendant down the line of William McKenney and Esther Yarnell of Van Buren, Iowa? If you are, please get in touch with me. We need info down this line to organize genealogical ties back to Ohio and hopefully a male descendant who will take a yDNA-37 test at FTDNA. So, please, if…
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M. D. Leahy, the head of Freethought University in Liberal, Converts to Anarchy, 1888
The below is from the publication Liberty, March 31, 1888. Advocating individualist anarchism, “Liberty” was published by Benjamin Ricketson Tucker from August 1881 to April 1908. * * * * * LIBERTY Not the Daughter But the Mother of Order Boston, Mass., Saturday, March 31, 1888 Whole No. 121 Of recent conversions to Anarchy the…
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State Board of Agriculture Lecture in Liberal, Missouri, 1904
MISSOURI STATE BOARD OF AGRICULTURE Monthly Bulletin Vol. IV June, 1904 No. 3 The Institute.—Let me say a word here in favor of the commendable work now being done by our State Board of Agriculture. The farmers’ institute and the display car of products are working closer into the confidence of the older farmers than…
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“The Primitive Expounder” published out of Alphadelphia by R. Thornton and J. Billins
Universalist Companion with an ALMANAC AND REGISTER containing the STATISTICS OF THE DENOMINATION for 1846 A. B. Grosh, Editor and Proprietor Periodical—The Primitive Expounder” is published every other Thursday, in Alphadelphia, on a medium sheet, octavo form, at $1.00 per annum in advance, by Revs. R. Thornton, and J. Billings, Editors. New Society.—Convis, 24 ms.,…
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Violet by George H. Walser
A sample of George H. Walser’s poetry. “Violet” is from The Bouquet, also published in 1897. * * * * * A LITTLE BOOK OF MISSOURI VERSE Collected and Edited by J. S. Snoody Press of Hudson-Kimberly Publishing Co. Kansas City, MO 1897 VIOLET When Morning stole across the distant plain To wreathe the peeping…
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Liberal Mutual Telephone Company Didn’t Like People Sharing Their Service
The people of the Liberal Mutual Telephone Company *really* didn’t want people sharing service with their neighbors and friends. * * * * * From Telephony, The American Telephone Journal, July 2, 1910 Good Arguments Against the Borrowing Habit. Mr. G. H. Dixson, secretary and manager of the Liberal Mutual Telephone Company, Liberal, Missouri, is…
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Bee Journal advertised from Liberal, 1881
Below is an ad for The Kansas Bee Keeper from 1881, Liberal, Missouri. THE CANADIAN BEE JOURNAL Vol. 1 BEETON, ONTARIO, APRIL 22nd, 1885, No. 4 KANSAS BEE KEEPER Established 1881 A 24 Column WEEKLY journal. Devoted exclusively bee-culture, at ONE DOLLAR A YEAR Three months on trial for twenty-five cents. Address, SCOVELL & POND…