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A ledger from the business papers of Thomas N. Stinson that is from 1848-68 and contains information on both Uniontown and Tecumseh trading posts. Thomas Nesbit Stinson was born in 1818 in Preble County, Ohio. Stinson built one of the earliest trading posts in Uniontown, Kansas, west of present day Topeka, in 1848. The post was a major trading center for the Potawatomi living in Kansas and the first of its kind in the area. Unfortunately, due to a cholera outbreak in 1850, the store was forced to close and Uniontown became a ghost town. From Uniontown, Thomas moved his trading post back east to the area surrounding Shunganunga Creek, where he met and married Julia Ann Beauchemie. The couple settled on a tract of land granted to Julia through an agreement between the united states and Shawnee, where Stinson founded the town of Tecumseh in 1853.
Date: Between 1848 and 1868
Item Number: 532626
Call Number: Thomas N. & Julia Ann Beauchemie Stinson papers, coll. #511, Box 2
KSHS Identifier: DaRT ID: 532626
Business and Industry - Retail - Trader's store
Collections - Manuscript - Stinson, Thomas Nesbit
Date - 1840s
Date - 1850s
Date - 1854-1860
Date - 1861-1869
Objects and Artifacts - Communication Artifacts - Documentary Artifact - Ledger
People - Notable Kansans - Stinson, Thomas N.
Thematic Time Period - Bleeding Kansas, 1854 - 1861
Thematic Time Period - Civil War, 1861 - 1865
Thematic Time Period - Immigration and Settlement, 1854 - 1890
Type of Material - Unpublished documents - Ledger
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