Reverend E. W. Sehon papers of the Shawnee Mission, 1855-1862.

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In English.

Purchased from Peter Decker on the Walter McClintock Memorial Fund, 1968.

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Reverend E. W. Sehon was missionary secretary of the Shawnee Methodist Mission in Kansas, on which the Shawnee Indian Methodist Manual Labor School operated, circa 1859.

Manuscript statement of cash paid, receipt, and notes on payment rules for the Shawnee Indian Methodist Manual Labor School on the Shawnee Mission in Kansas, kept by Reverend E. W. Sehon, missionary secretary, 1855-1862. Notes reference the Treaty of St. Louis (1825), Treaty with the Seneca, Shawnees and Wyandots (1831), and Treaty with the Shawnee (1854)--all treaties in which the Shawnee tribe ceded land to the United States.

July 05, 2019

Reverend E. W. Sehon Papers of the Shawnee Mission. Yale Collection of Western Americana, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library.

Reverend E. W. Sehon Papers of the Shawnee Mission. Yale Collection of Western Americana, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library.

Missionaries Kansas 19th century.