Kansas in the Sixties (Classic Reprint)

Download or read book Kansas in the Sixties (Classic Reprint) written by Samuel J. Crawford and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2016-08-25 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Kansas in the Sixties HE author of these memoirs was born in Lawrence County, Indiana, April 10, 1835; was reared on a farm, and educated in the public schools, the Bedford graded school, and the Law School of the Cincinnati College. His parents, William and Jane Morrow Crawford, were born. In Orange County, North Carolina, in 1788 and 1792, respectively; were reared on plantations, educated in private schools, married in and emigrated to the Territory of Indiana in 1815. His grandfather, James Crawford, was born in Virginia, emigrated to North Carolina, married Miss Margaret Fraser, served in the Revolutionary War, and lived to a ripe old age. The ancestral line of the Crawford family is trace able to a remote period in Scotland beyond which it may not be prudent to go, since members of the clan, by reason of their clannishness, lost their heads in the Tower of London. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.