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| | Cool Things, Coverlet, Kansas State Historical Society |
 | | By 1849 he was in Noblesville, Indiana, then to Mahaska County, Iowa, by 1855, followed by a stay in Greene County, Missouri, and on to Douglas County, Kansas, by 1866. |
 | | Perhaps in the young state of Kansas he found a market for his coverlets and continued to work, although his fellow weavers elsewhere were giving up their looms and moving to other professions. |
 | | Adolph continued his weaving in Douglas County until the end of the 1870s. |
| www.kshs.org /cool/coolcov.htm (499 words) |
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