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| | Painter. Homesteader near north Topeka in 1855. He left a 12-volume diary illustrated with pen & ink drawings, and by oil and watercolors. Reader was a soldier in the Free State Guards. He fought in the Civil War Battle of Hickory Point and at Big Blue with the 2nd Regiment of the Kansas Militia. | Source:
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State Historical Museum, Topeka.
SOURCES:
Susan Craig, "Biographical Dictionary of Kansas Artists (active before 1945)"
Federal Writers’ Project of the Work Projects Administration for the State of Kansas. Kansas: A Guide to the Sunflower State. (American Guide Series) New York: Viking Press, 1939.; Newlin, Gertrude Dix (Development of Art in Kansas. Typed Manuscript, 1951) | | This and over 1,750 other biographies can be found in Biographical Dictionary of Kansas Artists (active before 1945) compiled by Susan V. Craig, Art & Architecture Librarian at University of Kansas. |
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