Biography and Reminiscences of Diantha Shaw Edgerton Mahaffey

Publication

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St. Joseph Museums

Name/Title

Biography and Reminiscences of Diantha Shaw Edgerton Mahaffey

Entry/Object ID

L9999.736.17459

Description

Reminiscence of Diantha Shaw Edgerton Mahaffey. She wrote this as a member of Atchison Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution on February 6, 1918. Revolutionary War ancestors were Moses Churchill and Samuel Curtis. In 1857, her father James Shaw came to Kansas and preached in Atchison. Mahaffey recalls early years of Kansas and the Civil War. Her story continues to just past 1910. NOTE THIS IS STORED IN DOCUMENT STORAGE - PAMPHLETS II. 16 pages/folder/photograph

Lexicon

Nomenclature 4.0

Nomenclature Tertiary Object Term

Diary

Nomenclature Secondary Object Term

Journal

Nomenclature Primary Object Term

Book

Nomenclature Sub-Class

Other Documents

Nomenclature Class

Documentary Objects

Nomenclature Category

Category 08: Communication Objects

LOC Thesaurus for Graphic Materials

Civil wars

Search Terms

Kansas History, Doniphan County, Kansas, Revolutionary War, Civil War, Atchison, Kansas, Doniphan County, Reminiscence

Publication Details

Author

Diantha Shaw Edgerton Mahaffey

Place Published

City

Atchison

State/Province

Kansas

Date Published

1918

Call No.

StJoArea MA

Notes

Copy No.: 1

Condition

Overall Condition

Good

Relationships

Related Person or Organization

Person or Organization

Diantha Shaw Edgerton Mahaffey