SC36 Robinson Family Papers Finding Aid

This collection contains correspondence, court records, maps, deeds, bills, etc., and has been arranged by date order with most items relating to Montgomery and Buchanan County, Missouri. It contains maps of state roads for St. Joseph and the Gallatin area. A series of letters were written during the Civil War, some from Vicksburg, others written from the ship the U.S.S. Constitution off Newport, Rhode Island. Folder 23 includes mention of Jim Lane of Kansas, "I fell in with a congressman from Platte County and (also one of Jim Lane's Colonels) I saw Jim Lane in Washington and heard him speak...."

1820/1893

Correspondence
Robinson, William
Robinson Family
Lane, James H. (Jim)
Civil War
Montgomery County, Missouri
Buchanan County, Missouri

Finding Aid

SC36