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Florella Brown Adair was the wife of Samuel Lyle Adair and the half-sister of abolitionist, John Brown. She settled near Osawatomie, Kansas Territory, with her husband, who was a Congregational minister. She and her husband were free state supporters. The identification on the photograph indicates it is an enlargement of a small photograph taken in 1862.
Creator: Snyder & Steinhoff
Date: 1862
Item Number: 90461
Call Number: B Adair Florella Brown *2
KSHS Identifier: DaRT ID: 90461
Collections - Photograph
Government and Politics - Reform and Protest - Antislavery - Abolition
Home and Family
Objects and Artifacts - Communication Artifacts - Documentary Artifact - Photograph - Cabinet cards
People - Notable Kansans - Adair, Florella Brown, 1816-1865
Places - Cities and towns - Osawatomie
Places - Counties - Lykins (1855-1861)
Places - Counties - Miami
Thematic Time Period - Bleeding Kansas, 1854 - 1861
Thematic Time Period - Immigration and Settlement, 1854 - 1890
Type of Material - Photographs - Format - Cabinet cards
https://www.kansasmemory.gov/item/90461
