Jas. F. Legate, Arthur Capper, J. E. Junkin, Mrs. Margaret L. Wood,
John K. Wright. John Guthrie, C. K, Holliday, Fred. Wellhouse, and
F. G. Adams.
On motion, the President appointed F. P. Baker, D. R. Anthony
and Fred. Wellhouse a Committee on Nominations.
At the suggestion of the Secretary, the by-laws of the Society
were revised, amended, and adopted by sections, and the Secretary
authorized to number them in the proper manner, as follows:
I. There is hereby created an Executive Committee of the Board
of Directors of the Society, to consist of five members, to be ap-
pointed subsequent to the annual meeting of the Society, and to hold
their office until the next annual meeting.
II. The Executive Committee shall audit all accounts presented
against the Society, and all warrants drawn on the Treasurer shall
be upon sworn vouchers approved by a majority of the members of
the Executive Committee.
III. The Executive Committee shall examine and audit the ac-
counts and vouchers of the Treasurer annually before the time of the
annual meeting, and at the annual meeting thej shall make a written
re]»ort to the Board of Directors.
IV. The Executive Committee shall determine the character of
the published reports of the Society, and shall decide what papers
from its transactions and collections the biennial report shall con-
tain.
V. The Executive Committee shall take such action as the inter-
ests of the Society shall from time to time demand in relation to
providing and furnishing suitable rooms for its collections, and shall
consult with the Secretary, and with him decide upon the purchasing
of books to augment the Society's library.
VI. There shall be a Committee on Program and Addresses, to
consist of five members of the Board; and it shall be the duty of the
committee to provide for the addresses and proceedings of annual
and other meetings, and to take such action as may be deemed ad-
visable in reference to the delivery from time to time of lectures and
addresses on historical subjects at the state capital or elsewhere.
24 Kansas State Historical Society.
YII. There shall be a Committee on Legislation, to consist of
three or more members of the Society ; and it shall be the duty of the
committee to confer with the members and committees of the legis-
lature, and present for their consideration and action the matters of
legislation which the Board of Directors shall recommend.
VIII. There shall be a Committee on Nominations, to consist of
live members of the Board; and it shall be the duty of the commit-
tee, annually, at some time previous to the annual meeting of the So-
ciety, to make a selection of persons whom they deem proper to rec-
ommend for members of the Board of Directors, and shall present
the same for the action of the Society at the annual meeting,
IX. All committees shall be appointed by the President.
The subject of permanent room for the Society in the completed
capitol building was discussed at length, and, on motion of Colonel
Holliday, the following resolution was adopted:
Resolved, That the State Historical Society adheres to the position
formerly taken, that the legislature shall be asked to assign and have
prepared for the use of the Society, through the state executive
council, the first and second floors of the east wing of the capitol
building, so soon as the same shall be vacated by the present occu-
pants, on the completion of the main portion of the building.
The report of the Committee on Nominations was approved.
Honorary, corresponding and active members were then nomi-
nated, for election at the evening meeting of the Board.
Dr. William Bishop, of Salina, made some remarks regarding the
libj'ary of the late Col. William A. Phillips, expressing the hope that
it might be purchased by the state for the Historical Society. No
action was taken by the Board of Directors.
The chair renewed the appointment of the present Committee on
Memorials for the coming year.
ANNUAL MEETING OF THE SOCIETY-JANUARY 15, 1895.
The nineteenth annual meeting convened in the hall of the house
of representatives, at T :30 p. m., Tuesday, the 15th of January, 1895.
In the absence of the President, Hon. V. J. Lane, Vice-Pres. W. L.
Brown presided, and made a brief address.
The Secretary read an abstract of the report of the Board of Di-
rectors, including the following financial statement:
The finances of the Society for the year ending November 20,
1894, are as follows:
Nov. 21, 1893.— Balance of appropriation to June 30, 1894 $3,564 91
Balance in hands of Treasurer, Society fees 85 02
Total balance $3,649 93
July 1, 1894.— Appropriation to June 30, 1895 5,680 00
Receipts from membership fees 38 00
Total $9,367 93
Proceedings. 25
Expendiiurex.
Salaries and clerk hire $4,670 00
Purchase of books 622 30
Postagre, freight, and contingent 425 18
5,717 4C
Total balance $3,650 45
The following members of the Board of Directors were then
elected, for the term of three years, ending January 18, 1898: F. G.
Adams, J. Ware Butterfield, Alex. Caldwell, J. R. Clark, E. J. Dallas,
L. R. Elliot, J. S. Emery, Chas. S. Gleed, John Guthrie, H. C. F.
Hackbusch, John G. Haskell, R. R. Hays, D. N. Heizer, C. K. Holli-
day, Scott Hopkins, A. H. Hortou, V. J. Lane, P. G. Lowe, John Ma-
loy, George W. Martin, E. N. Morrill, John M. Price, Adrian Rey-
nolds, B. F. Simpson, William Sims, W. H. Smith, W. R. Spicknall,
Edmund Stanley, William B, Sutton, A. E. True, Fred Wellhouse,
Archie L. Williams, and John K. Wright.
For the term of two years, ending January 19, 1897: Mrs. Sarah
T. L. Robinson was elected in place of Gov. Charles Robinson, de-
ceased.
[No memorial paper relating to the life and services of Gov-
ernor Robinson has been prepared for the collections of the Society.
At the annual meeting in January, 1897, it is expected that action
will be taken for the preparation of a memorial address which shall
bring into the Society's published collections a record just to the
memory of Charles Robinson, the man who was not only the chosen
leader of the people of Kansas at the time of greatest trial, but was
one of the most useful among the founders of the state, and who
was always one of the most prominent and useful members of this
Society. Governor Robinson died at his home near Lawrence,
August 17, 1894.]
For the term of one year, ending January 21, 1896 : A. L. Sponsler
was elected in place of Warren Foster, of Hutchinson, removed from
the state.
The following program was then had: Address by Hon. A. R.
Greene, "Chimney Corner Chat on the Battle of Wilson's Creek."
Address by Prof. Oscar E. Olin, "Romance of Kansas History." Ad-
dress by Hon. John Speer, "Incidents of the Pioneer Conflict." Mu-
sic by the McNary quartette.
MEETING OF THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS, JANUARY 15, 1895.
At the close of the annual meeting the Board of Directors con-
vened, and elected the following officers, nominated at the afternoon
meeting: President, Solon O. Thacher; Vice-Presidents, Maj. Jas. B.
Abbott and Harrison Kelley; Treasurer, John Guthrie; Secretary,
F. G. Adams.
—2
Kansas State Historical Society.
The following members of the Society, nominated at the afternoon
meeting, were elected:
Honorary Members. — Mrs. Mary Ann Bickerdyke (Mother Bick-
erdyke), Russell, Kas. ; Rev. George Lewis Piatt, Episcopal minister,
Tivoli, N. Y.; Hon. Alden Speare, Boston, Mass.; Senator Joseph
R. Hawley, Hartford, Conn.
Corresponding Members. — Rev. William Piggott, D.D., Gainsbor-
ough, Eng.; Rev. Harry Frank Tracey, D.D., vicar of Dartmouth,
South Devon, England.
Active Members. — J. H. Hunt, Topeka; Col. William Watson
Houston, Garnett; Dr. H. D. Fisher, Westmoreland; Hon. Noah C.
McFarland, Topeka ; Prof. Oscar E. Olin, Manhattan.
LEGISLATIVE COMMITTEE'S MEETING— FEBEUAEY 13, 1895.
At a meeting of the Legislative Committee, held in the catalogue
room, at 2 o'clock p. m., February 5, 1895, there were present: Col.
C. K. Holliday, F. P. Baker, E. J. Dallas, A. R. Greene, W L. Brown,
E. B. Cowgill, W. J. Costigan, and Arthur Capper.
The Secretary presented for the consideration of the committee a
draft of a concurrent resolution, which, on motion, was approved,
for presentation to the chairman of the committee on state affairs of
the house of representatives.
The estimates for appropriations for each of the two ensuing fiscal
years were also read and approved.
Other business of minor importance was transacted, when, on mo-
tion, the meeting adjourned.
MEETING OF THE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE— OCTOBER 2, 1895.
At a called meeting of the Executive Committee of the Society,
held in the west room, October 2, 1895, the following members were
present:
Gov. E. N. Morrill, Major William Sims, Hon. F. P. Baker, Col. C.
K. Holliday. Dr. S. McLallin was absent on account of sickness.
Colonel Holliday presided.
The Secretary stated that the object of the call of the committee
was to fill the vacancy in the office of President of the Society,
caused by the death of Hon. Solon O. Thacher, which occurred on the
11th of August last.
Mr. Baker moved the appointment of Gov. E. N. Morrill to fill the
vacancy, and stated the reason why he thought the appointment
should be made. Major Sims seconded the motion with remarks of
the same tenor. A vote being taken resulted in yeas, 3 : Messrs. Ba-
ker, Sims, and Holliday. Nays 1, Governor Morrill.
The meeting then adjourned.
Proceedings. 27
TWENTIETH ANNUAL MEETING OF THE BOARD OF
DIRECTORS.
Tlie twentieth annual meeting of the Board of Directors of the
State Historical Society met in the state capitol at 2 p. m., January
21, 1896, Gov. E. N. Morrill, President, in the chair. The following
members were present: E. N. Morrill, Fred Wellhouse, D. R. An-
thony, A. B. Whiting, F. G. Adams, A. E. True, J. S. Emery, S. A.
Kingman, V J. Lane, James B. Abbott, E. B. Cowgill, J. Ware
Butterfield, Harrison Kelley, J. E. Junkin, John Guthrie, E. J. Dal-
las, F. D. Coburn, and L. R. Elliott.
The Secretary read the annual report of the Board of Directors,
which on motion was adopted for presentation to the annual meet-
ing of the Society.
On motion of Mr. Cowgill, a committee was appointed to confer
with the trustees of the state library, for the object, if possible, of
adjusting the conflict between the state library and the Historical
Society, as follows: E. B. Cowgill, Topeka; Geo. W. Martin, Kansas
City; A. J. Felt, Atchison; James S. Emery, Lawrence; F. D. Co-
burn, Kansas City. Mr. Coburn declined to act on the committee,
and Hon. Sol. Miller, of Troy, was appointed in his place.
On motion of Judge Guthrie, the following committee of three
was appointed by the President to prepare a suitable memorial of
the life and character of Judge Solon O. Thacher for publication in
the collections of this Society: Col. D. R. Anthony, Brinton W.
Woodward, and N. L. Prentis.
The committee on nominations made their report, which, on
motion, was approved for presentation to the annual meeting of
the Societj^ and of the Board of Directors.
Governor Morrill then presented the report of tbe Committee on
Finances, which was accepted.
Governor Morrill being called away, Major Abbott took the chair.
J. C. Price, of Republic, then presented the matter of the village
site of the Pawnee Republic, and exhibited some relics picked up
from the locality. The following resolutions, offered by the Secre-
tary, were then adopted :
Resolved, That the Kansas State Historical Society recognizes
as of great importance the investigations made by the Pawnee
Republic Historical Society, of Republic and Jewell counties, in its
efforts to establish the exact location of the village of the Pawnee
Republic, which was visited and described b}^ Capt. Zebulon M.
Pike, in the year 1806, and thus to fix the point where American
occupancy under the Louisiana territory purchase first encountered
28 Kansas State Historical Society.
Spanish occupancy, and the flag of the United states was made to
supplant the flag of Spain.
Resolved, That the information ah^eady gathered by that society,
supported as it is by the testimony of the distinguished investigator
and antiquarian, Prof. Elliott Coues, leaves little if any question
that that village site had its location near the Republican river, on
portions of sections 2 and 3, township 2, range 5 west, in White
Rock township. Republic county.
Resolved, That a committee of this Board be appointed to cooperate
with the Pawnee Republic Historical Society in definitely determin-
ing that location, and in recommending such action as may be
deemed advisable towards suitably marking the place by monument
or otherwise.
The President appointed the following committee, in accordance
with the foregoing resolution: F. G. Adams, E. B. Cowgill, and N.
L, Prentis.
Judge Kingman proffered his resignation as member of the
Board of Directors. On motion of Judge Guthrie, the resignation
was accepted, and Judge Kingman was nominated as an honorary
member.
On motion of Mr. Adams, Miss Lucy D. Kingman was nominated
to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of her father.
On motion, the meeting adjourned.
TWENTIETH ANNUAL MEETING.
The twentieth annual meeting of the State Historical Society
met in representative hall at 8 p. m., Tuesday, January 21, 1896,
the President, Gov. E. N. Morrill, in the chair.
Dr. H. D. Fisher offered prayer.
Judge Samuel A, Kingman made the announcement that Gen.
Thomas Ewing, an honorary member of our Historical Society,
and a former distinguished citizen of Kansas, had just died in New
York city, on this, the 21st day of January, 1896, as the result of
injuries sustained by him through accident. Judge Kingman also
read a letter of regret written by General Ewing to the Secretary
of the Society in response to an invitation given him to attend the
present annual meeting. On motion. Judge Samuel A. Kingman,
A. H. Horton and John Guthrie were appointed to prepare a paper
on the life and services of General Ewing.
The report of the Board of Directors was read, and, on motion of
Judge Guthrie, was adopted.
Proceedings. 29
Members of the Board of Directors were then elected for the term
of three years, ending January 17, 1899, as follows:
James B. Abbott, De Soto; A. J. Arnold, North Topeka; W. L.
Brown, Kingman; E. B. Cowgill, Topeka; W. C. Edwards, Larned;
A. J. Felt, Atchison; A. G. Forney, Belle Plaine; W. A. Harris,
Linwood; E. W. Hoch, Marion; L. Houk, Hutchinson; J. K. Hud-
son, Topeka; McCown Hunt, Leavenworth; Mrs. Laura M. Johns,
Salina; L. D. Lewelling, Wichita; Dr. S. McLallin, Topeka; P. B.
Maxson, Emporia; Sol. Miller, Troy; John R. Mulvane, Topeka;
M. M. Murdock, Wichita; Mrs. Bina A. Otis, Topeka; N. L. Prentis,
Kansas City; J. B. Remington, Osawatomie; Harvey D. Rice,
Topeka; J. W. Robison, El Dorado; Charles F. Scott, Tola; Robert
H. Semple, Ottawa; A. A. Stewart, Olathe; Edwin Taylor, Ed-
wardsville; James A. Troutman, Topeka; Alex. Warner, Baxter
Springs; A. B. Whiting, Topeka; L. D. Whittemore, Topeka ; B. W.
Woodward, Lawrence.
Member of the Board for the year ending January 19, 1897, to
fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Judge S. A. Kingman,
Miss Lucy D. Kingman, of Topeka.
Governor Morrill then read the President's annual address, upon
the subject ''Trials and Hardships of the Pioneer Settlers."
At the close of the governor's address. Prof. Frank H. Hodder,
of the chair of American history and administration of the State
University, delivered an address on the subject ''The Making of
Kansas."
The members of the newly elected Board who were present then
took the oath of office.
The Lotus club sang selections during the evening's proceedings.
The meeting adjourned.
EVENING MEETING OF THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS- JANUARY 21, 1896.
At the close of the annual meeting, the Board of Directors con-
vened and proceeded to an election of officers for the ensuing year.
The election resulted in the choice of Gov. Edmund N. Morrill
for President, and Maj. James B. Abbott and Hon. Harrison Kelley
for Vice-Presidents.
Hon. Geo. R. Peck, of Chicago, and Gen. George A. Forsyth, of
Wilkes-Barre, Pa., were then elected as honorary members, and
Samuel Hutchins Hurd, M. D., of New^ York City, and Murray E.
Poole, of Ithaca, N. Y., were elected corresponding members. W.
W. Phillips, of Topeka, was elected an active member.
The President announced that the standing committees would be
appointed later.
The meeting then adjourned.
30 Kansas Htatc Historical Society.
JOHN G. WHITTIER.
John Greenleaf Whittier was born in Haverhill, Mass., December 17, 1807,
and died at Amesbury, September 7, 1892. His parents were members of the
Society of Friends. His first American ancestry came to Massachusetts in 1638;
and the conversion to Quakerism took place in the second generation of the fam-
ily in New England, and at a time when that sect was sternly persecuted. Thus
Whittier inherited unswerving constancy to unpopular opinions. Born on a
farm, Whittier's first occupations were those of a farmer boy, driving the kine
to and from pasture, riding to mill, fetching in wood for the undying kitchen
fire, and helping in the lighter labors of haying and harvest,
A farm-hand taught him shoemaking — a comnaon occupation during the win-
ter in the fishing and farming villages along the coast — and by this means he
earned enough to warrant his attending, at the age of 20, Haverhill Academy
during six months. Then he became a school-teacher ; then a writer for news-
papers. He read the old poets. The poetic instinct is said to have been awak-
ened in him by the poetry of Robert Burns. As he himself said, ' ' Burns was the
first poet I read, and he will be the last." His own first poem, printed when the
author was 19 years old, was published in William Lloyd Garrison's newspaper —
the "Free Press." Five years later this farmer's son decided to cast his lot
with the despised abolitionists, and to become in a distinctive sense the poet of
freedom.
For 30 years Whittier's anti-slavery political lyrics appealed to a gradually
widening audience, until his song of the "Kansas Emigrants" was heard
from Massachusetts bay to the Missouri river, and his "Bin Feste Burg," and
his "Song of the Negro Boatman" were sung in the union armies in the war
of the rebellion. It cannot be said, however, that he ever deliberately wrote
in praise of warfare; on the contrary, his poems are full of passages deplor-
ing it.
The autograph copy of the "Kansas Emigrant's Song," here published,
with the accompanying note of transmittal, were given our Kansas State
Historical Society in compliance with a request made for the same.
Whittier.
31
Amesbury, Mass., May 26, 1891.
F G. Adams: My sight has failed so much that I fear my writing will be unreadable.
wouid not have tried to copy anything for any other purpose. ^^^^ ^ Whittiek.
SONG OF THE KANSAS EMIGRANTS.
We cross the prairie as of old
Our fathers crossed the sea,
To make the West as they the East
The homestead of the free.
We go to rear a waU. of men
On Freedom's southern line.
And plant beside the cotton-tree
The rugged northern pine.
We 're flowing from our native hills
As our free rivers flow ;
The blessing of our motherland
Is on us as we go.
We go to plant her common schools
On distant prairie swells.
And give the Sabbaths of the wild
The music of her bells !
Upbearing like the ark of old
The Bible in our van,
We go to test the truth of God
Against the fraud of man.
No pause nor rest, save where the streams
That feed the Kansas run.
Save where our pilgrim gonfalon
ShaU flout the setting sun.
We '11 tread the prairies as of old
Our fathers sailed the sea.
To make the West as they the East
The homestead of the free I
John G. Whittier.
32
Kansas State Historical Society.
^
Whittier.
33
4
^
34
Kansas State Historical Society.
WhUtier.
85
1214Q21
86 Kansas State Historical Society.
LUCY LARCOM.
Lucy Larcom was born in Beverly, Mass., in 1826, and died in Boston, April
17, 1893, As a child of seven years she wrote stories and poems for her own
amusement. When she was 10 years old her father died, and her mother estab-
lished a factory boarding-house at Lowell, where, after spending two or three
years in school, Lucy entered the mills. While working as a cotton-operative,
she contributed largely to the "Lowell Oflfering." John G. Whittier, then con-
ducting a free-soil paper in Lowell, encouraged her literary efforts. When about
20 years of age she went to Illinois with a married sister, taught school there for
some time, and was for three years a pupil in Monticello Female Seminary.
On her return to Massachusetts she was employed for six years in a seminary
at Norton, but desisted on the failure of her health, subsequently only taking
classes occasionally in Boston schools. During the civil war she wrote many
patriotic poems. When " Our Young Folks " was established in Boston in 1865,
she became an assistant and in the following year chief editor, conducting the
magazine till 1874. A complete collection of her poetical works appeared in 188i.
At the opening of emigration to Kansas in the spring of 1855, Dr. Thomas H .
Webb, secretary of the New England Emigrant Aid Company, offered a prize of
$50 for a Kansas poem. Eighty -nine were presented in competition. " The Call
to Kansas," by Lucy Larcom, obtained the prize.
The fac simile of this poem, together with that of the interesting letter of
transmittal by the author, were given our State Historical Society upon solicita-
tion.
Lucy Larcom. 37
Mr. Adams: 214 Columbus Avenue, Boston, January 29, 1891.
Deae Sib— I have been too busy to copy this earlier. Rewriting it brings back many mem-
ories of border struggles, and the excitement that preceded the outbreak of the rebellion. I
was teaching at Wheaton Seminary, Norton, Mass., at the time I wrote the song; and, before I
knew that the school knew of it, I was one day surprised by liaving it sung to me, in full chorus.
I have always hoped to visit Kansas, but have never found opportunity to do so.
Sincerely yours, Lucy Larcom.
CALL TO KANSAS.
Yeomen strong, hither throng.
Nature's honest men !
We will make the wilderness
Bud and bloom again.
Bring the sickle, speed the plough,
Turn the ready soil !
Freedom is the noblest pay
For the true man's toU.
Ho, brothers ! Come, brothers !
Hasten all with me !
We '11 sing upon the Kansas plains
A song of liberty !
Father, haste ! o'er the waste
Lies a i^leasant land ;
There your fireside's altar stones
Fixed in truth shall stand.
There your sons, brave and good.
Shall to freemen grow.
Clad in triple mail of right.
Wrong to overthrow.
Ho, brothers ! Come, brothers !
Hasten all with me !
We' 11 sing upon the Kansas plains
A song of liberty !
Mother, come ! here 's a home
In the waiting West.
Bring the seeds of love and peace.
You who sow them best !
Faithful hearts, holy prayers.
Keep from taint the air:
Soil a mother's tears have wet
Golden crops shall bear.
Come, mother, fond mother.
List ! wo call to thee !
We '11 sing upon the Kansas plains
A song of liberty.
Brother brave, stem the wave.
Firm the prairies tread ;
Up the dark Missouri flood
Be your canvas spread !
Sister true, join us, too.
Where the Kansas flows ;
Let the northern lily bloom
With the southern rose !
Brave brother, true sister.
List, we call to thee !
We '11 sing upon the Kansas plains
A song of liberty !
One and all, hear our call
Echo through the land !
Aid us with the willing heart
And the strong right hand !
Feed the spark the Pilgrims struck
On the old Plymouth rock !
To the watch-fires of the free
Millions glad shall flock.
Ho, brothers, come brothers !
Hasten all with me !
We '11 sing upon the Kansas plains
The song of liberty !
1855. Lucy Larcom.
38 Kansas State Historical Society.
^^ l^r~ C^ ^^^^^4/ /:^t<3 cp(^^^ G.^?iz->^^?Xi^
^ C
^
Lucy Larcom. 39
y^^...Cr7^..J^'<^ i7r^V^'-^ Ji^..^^^^^^ ^^^-p-^-g^
Pfff^iuejc^ /W /^^^^^^ '-S^C^^-^ tPzS^I.^6
J^^^o jf^p-2^<^ 't^cr^o/^ ^^-^fc^^e; <^^^-'^<^ ^t72P^
~~ J^
"r:'-7<^
/
^ Kansas State Historical Society.
}^^^^ ^fe cT^xii^ J^^- /^^^- ^2*-^ J^2e^©
^
^^j,.^^^^
Lucy Larcom.
41
t>1rr^c^ "^^^ Q?^?V^^ 91^.^4^ fC^ek.,^,^ ^