The First Church of Christ in Wabaunsee is also known as the Beecher Bible & Rifle Church, Wabaunsee, Kansas. It was built in 1862. The church was organized by members of the Connecticut Kansas Colony made up of free-state settlers. The famous…
This photograph is of a church in Sheridan County, possibly in Hoxie. The photo was given to the Kansas State Historical Society by the Sheridan County Historical Society in 1979.
Diary and journal kept at the Iowa Presbyterian Mission (now the Iowa, Sac & Fox Presbyterian Mission State Historic Site) near present Highland, Kansas. Irvin was the principal missionary there. The original diary has been microfilmed [MS-89], but…
The collection consists of historical and genealogical information regarding Reverend Barker, originals and copies of letters (notably between Barker and the Shawnee Mission Board), copies of church records of the Shawnee Baptist Mission Church, and…
Scrapbooks, clippings, study books, and correspondence used for and documenting the Young Women's Christian Association (YWCA) Menninger Bible study, as taught by Flo Menninger, the wife of C.F. and mother of Karl and Will Menninger. The studies were…
Group XI was organized in 1927 as a club that would meet in the evening in order to allow working women of Topeka, Kansas to join. The club was founded by members of the Central Congregational Church and that church's Women's Society in particular,…
Record book of the First Church of Christ (Beecher Bible & Rifle Church), Wabaunsee, 1854-1917. The information for years 1857 through 1869 were copied from a different volume, as noted on the first page. Page 4 and part of page 5 describe the…
This correspondence was written to and from Mrs. Mary Merriam Sheldon, wife of Charles Sheldon, minister of the Central Congregational Church in Topeka, Kansas. Governor Arthur Capper is notably included. Many of the letters express sympathy after…
This collection consists of letters of recommendation and correspondence to and from Lewis Bodwell, the first resident pastor of the First Congregational Church in Topeka. The collection also includes Bodwell's diary and list of marriage ceremonies…
