Contents
- Descriptive Summary
- Conditions for Access
- Conditions Governing Use
- Preferred Citation
- Acquisition Information
- Scope and Content
- Indexed Terms
Collection Access
Letter to John Wentworth about Dr. Joseph Walker
Descriptive Summary
- Title
- Letter to John Wentworth about Dr. Joseph Walker
- Dates
- 1886 Apr 10
- Creator
- Wentworth, John, 1815-1888.
- Size
- 1 item (3 p.).
- Language
- Material is in English unless otherwise noted.
Conditions for Access
The collection is open for research.
Conditions Governing Use
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Preferred Citation
A common citation for archives is as follows: Item, Folder number and/or title, Box number, Collection title, ID number, Repository name, location.
Acquisition Information
Accession information not specified.
Scope and Content
Unsigned letter, on letterhead of Williams & Thompson (attorneys), gives a biography of Dr. Joseph Walker, an army surgeon who married a woman who owned a plantation with enslaved people located near Platte City, Missouri. Walker, who sympathized with the pro-slavery party, spent part of the Civil War years in Chicago but returned to Missouri and was killed by a party of Jayhawkers, Aug. 28, 1864. Includes poem on death of Walker. Annotation by John Wentworth says that Dr. Walker was a leading physician in Chicago when Wentworth arrived on Oct. 25, 1836.