Record Data Place Unit Type City or Town Containing Unit Shawnee County, KS Events Date Type 01/25/1860 Charles Curtis born in Topeka, Kansas Personal 07/20/1866 Governor Crawford of Kansas appoints Edmund Ross to succeed James H. Lane in the U.S. Senate. Campaigns/Elections 04/20/1860 In Topeka, Kansas, John Ritchie shoots and kills U.S. Marshal Leonard Arms during attempted arrest Crime/Disasters 09/05/1866 Kansas Republicans nominate a slate of Radical Republicans for the fall elections. Campaigns/Elections 09/23/1860 Senator Seward campaigns for the Republican Party in St. Joseph, Missouri Campaigns/Elections 02/11/1859 The Kansas Territorial Legislature calls a Convention to frame a State Constitution Lawmaking/Litigating 10/04/1859 The Wyandotte Constitution is put to a popular vote in Kansas Campaigns/Elections 07/29/1859 The Wyandotte Convention completes and signs the new Kansas State Constitution Lawmaking/Litigating People Burial Place of Crawford, Samuel Johnson Holliday, Cyrus Kurtz Ritchie, John Documents Date Title 03/24/1857 New York Times, “News from Kansas,” March 24, 1857 05/04/1857 New York Times, “Kansas Politics,” May 4, 1857 06/22/1857 New York Times, “The ‘Governors’ of Kansas,” June 22, 1857 06/30/1857 New York Times, “Kansas,” June 30, 1857 07/30/1857 Washington (DC) National Era, “Kansas News,” July 30, 1857 12/15/1857 New York Times, “Governor Walker in Washington,” December 15, 1857 12/19/1857 New York Times, “The Republicans and Gov. Walker,” December 19, 1857 05/04/1860 Boston (MA) Liberator, “The Late Homicide in Kansas,” May 4, 1860 Images Topeka, Kansas, 1869
