Communities. In 1856 when this house was built, ritchies idea was to make this house as solid as he possibly could. Its kind of like a fort in that sense. The house has become known as somebodys port, whether you are on one side or another. That will result in ritchies arrest for his involvement in rating stores and he will be arrested and incarcerated in the proslavery jail. And managed to escape in the fall of 1856 and find his way back to franklin, indiana where he spent time with his family, his father and his family in indiana, leaving a wife and children here into bego topeka. When he comes back to topeka in the spring of 1857, the free soil people have gained control of the territorial legislature. They begin to institute, rather than pro slavery legislation, they enact a free soil anti slavery legislation. That pretty well seals the deal that kansas is ultimately going to be a free state rather than a pro slavery state. The result is pretty clear. The free people have become a
Communities. In 1856 when this house was built, ritchies idea was to make this house as solid as he possibly could. Its kind of like a fort in that sense. The house has become known as somebodys port, whether you are on one side or another. That will result in ritchies arrest for his involvement in rating stores and he will be arrested and incarcerated in the proslavery jail. And managed to escape in the fall of 1856 and find his way back to franklin, indiana where he spent time with his family, his father and his family in indiana, leaving a wife and children here into bego topeka. When he comes back to topeka in the spring of 1857, the free soil people have gained control of the territorial legislature. They begin to institute, rather than pro slavery legislation, they enact a free soil anti slavery legislation. That pretty well seals the deal that kansas is ultimately going to be a free state rather than a pro slavery state. The result is pretty clear. The free people have become a
By then he had so ensconced himself with business that i dont believe his Indian Heritage was a negative. It does not appear to have been. He is hoovers Vice President. Hoover was not popular because his administration some people think his administration was responsible for the depression. Nobody associated with that is very popular. As Vice President , curtis was something of a nobody. All Vice President s are to some extent. But curtis became a caricature of the time. It is very unfortunate because he was a very remarkable man. The house. A very beautiful house. Just almost unbelievable how beautiful it still is. This is called an eclectic victorian. Eclectic because it has the mooring stone and some stainedglass windows and curved windows. It is a lot of different styles of the victorian area that have been put together. They call it eclectic victorian. We just love the building. People love to come here. They love to come here. They love to see the house and the furnishings and ta