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Title
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High Waters in Kansas
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Description
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Extracts from the diary of Reverend Jotham Meeker (1804-1855), a physician, missionary to the Ottawa Indians starting in 1837, and introducer of the printing press to Kansas. Description of the 1844 flooding of his house on the Marais des Cygnes River near present-day Ottawa, Kansas and taking refuge at the Shawnee Baptist Mission in Johnson County.
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Date
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1904
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Object Type
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Magazine Article