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	Cool Things, New England Emigrant Aid Company sign, Kansas State Historical Society
		The company reorganized in 1855 as the New England Emigrant Aid Company (NEEAC).
		NEEAC secretary Thomas Webb wrote in an 1855 pamphlet that individuals in New England Emigrant Aid Company parties were not required to promise they would vote against slavery in Kansas Territory, however, he assumed they would support the free-state cause.
		NEEAC also suffered a major setback that provided a great deal of publicity for both the company and the free-state cause.
	www.kshs.org /cool3/neeacsign.htm (602 words)

	Emigrant Aid Company - HighBeam Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Emigrant Aid Company organization formed in 1854 to promote organized antislavery immigration to the Kansas territory from the Northeast.
		Many other Kansas aid societies were subsequently formed throughout the North (e.g., the Kansas Emigrant Aid Society of Northern Ohio and the New York Kansas League), but the New England group was preeminent in the field and the name Emigrant Aid Company is associated exclusively with it.
		Amos A. Lawrence served as treasurer of the company, which, despite its earnest soliciting of the support of clergymen throughout New England, remained in bad financial condition until Nov., 1855, when a notably successful campaign to raise money was launched.
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-emigrant.html (700 words)

	Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for emigrant (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Oregon Trail overland emigrant route in the United States from the Missouri River to the Columbia River country (all of which was then called Oregon).
		A Jewish emigrant from Poland, he was imprisoned (1778) by the British in New York City for aiding the Revolutionaries and was condemned to death, but he escaped to Philadelphia.
		He was a Free-Soiler in the Massachusetts legislature (1853-54), organized the New England Emigrant Aid Company for sending antislavery settlers to Kansas, and was a Republican member of the House of Representatives (1857-61).
	www.encyclopedia.com /searchpool.asp?target=emigrant (636 words)

	The Emigrant Aid Company in Kansas by Samuel A. Johnson, November 1932
		Partisans of Jim Lane, John Brown and the Emigrant Aid Company engaged in all but mortal verbal combat in defense of the claims of their respective heroes, while literary kill-joys bluntly declared that Kansas was saved by the unsung farmers from the Ohio valley.
		One of the aims avowed in all of the Aid Company advertising was the encouragement of schools and churches.
		It is obvious, too, from the preserved correspondence, that the Aid Company agents, Robinson and Pomeroy, who were among the most active founders of the Free-state party, were constantly keeping the officers of the company informed of their plans and activities, and were receiving advice and financial aid from Boston.
	www.kancoll.org /khq/1932/32_5_johnson.htm (4671 words)

	thayer
		New England Emigrant Aid Company for sending antislavery settlers to Kansas, and was a Republican member of the House of Representatives (1857—61).
		Incorporated under the guidance of Eli Thayer of Worcester in April, 1854, the company was a venture designed both for benevolence and moneymaking.Emigrant Aid Company, organization formed in 1854 to promote organized antislavery immigration to the Kansas territory from the Northeast.
		Then the company was to choose a new area of operation and commence the program again, until another free state had been admitted to the Union.
	members.tripod.com /~Penningtons/thayer.html (1472 words)

	OhioLINK ETD: Murphy, Tracee (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		The New England Emigrant Aid Company, formed in 1854 under the direction of Eli Thayer, was established to send settlers into the Kansas territory.
		The company's impact upon Kansas and the border Missourians needed to be examined thoroughly to understand its place in Kansas history.
		It is the focus of this study to determine the effects of the company's presence and its propaganda in Kansas.
	www.ohiolink.edu /etd/view.cgi?ysu999030940 (180 words)

	Ringing Out Freedom: Unitarians and Universalists in Early Kansas (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		It was the repeal of the Missouri Compromise that raised a firestorm of protest in the North and in Massachusetts in particular.
		The Unitarian minister, Edward Everett Hale, was one of the founders of the Aid Company.
		Interestingly, it was a representative of the Emigrant Aid Company that first suggested to the AUA that a church be built in Lawrence.
	www.uufhc.net /s040829.html (3084 words)

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		In 1831 the charter of the Amoskeag Manufac- turing Company was obtained and the company organized, and the proprietors engaged in the enter- prise with energy a n d activity.
		Straw, a na- tive of Salisbury, New Hampshire, was temporarily engaged by the THE SOLDIERS MONUMENT.
		The fonnder of this company was one of the most scientific men engaged in the bnsiness, and his thorongh nnderstanding of all the technical reqnire- ments enabled him to place his company in the front rank.
	lcweb2.loc.gov /ndlpcoop/nicmoas/newe/newe0022.sgm (20695 words)

	History of the Manhattan, Kansas Fire Department
		Manhattan was settled in April 1855 by "free-staters" traveling to Kansas under the sponsorship of the New England Emigrant Aid Company.
		The Hartford passengers accepted an invitation to join the new town, but insisted that it be renamed Manhattan, which was done on June 29, 1855.
		The new station was designed as a regional training center and to provide living quarters for student firefighters.
	members.cox.net /ctannehill1/MFDHistory.htm (962 words)

	Franklin Pierce - MSN Encarta
		Because both territories lay north of parallel 36° 30', this was an exception to the Missouri Compromise of 1820, which barred the creation of new slavery states north of that line.
		The proslavery forces won, but the North countered with the New England Emigrant Aid Company, which sent Northern settlers into Kansas to help organize a rival free-soil (antislavery) government.
		However, Pierce's outspoken condemnation of the New England Emigrant Aid Company and his bitter diatribes against abolitionists, especially abolitionist clergymen, had so outraged his home state that Concord refused him a public reception on his return.
	encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761555881_4/Franklin_Pierce.html (948 words)

	Kansas and Kansans Ch. 23
		Lane's vindictive rival and most relentless detractor was Dr. Charles Robinson, resident agent at Lawrence of the New England Emigrant Aid Company.
		The claim of Clark Stearns was purchased for the Aid Company by Charles H. Branscomb for $500.
		The New England people were always in the minority in Kansas, and even in Douglas County, but they exerted a great influence from the beginning, because of their ability and cohesion.
	skyways.lib.ks.us /genweb/archives/1918ks/v1/ch23p1.html (2876 words)

	S. C. Pomeroy and the New England Emigrant Aid Company, 1854-1858, by Edgar Langsdorf, Kansas Historical Quarterly, ...
		Eli Thayer, of Worcester, founder of the company, was also a politician, serving in the house of representatives in 1853 and 1854, and it seems likely that he and Pomeroy were acquainted before Pomeroy became an agent.
		Work was proceeding rapidly on the company's new hotel at Lawrence, expenses had been heavy, and the workmen would soon be asking for their wages.
		The Massachusetts Emigrant Aid Company had been reorganized as the New England Emigrant Aid Company, and on March 5, 1855, five men were chosen to constitute an executive committee, replacing the three trustees.
	www.kancoll.org /khq/1938/38_3_langsdorf.htm (7112 words)

	PBS - THE WEST - Julia Louisa Lovejoy
		Through her letters to New England newspapers, Julia Louisa Lovejoy left a vivid account of the tumult that wracked Kansas during the struggle over abolition and slavery, and a testimony to the moral commitment that finally brought the struggle to an end.
		Lovejoy was born in New Hampshire in 1812.
		The Lovejoys moved West as members of a group sent by the New England Emigrant Aid Company, which was devoted to making Kansas a state free from slavery.
	www.pbs.org /weta/thewest/people/i_r/lovejoy.htm (703 words)

	Bloody Bill Anderson
		When William Anderson led his company of guerrillas into the Centralia rail station on 27 September 1864, he was already the most feared Confederate guerrilla in Missouri.
		In response to this perceived threat to the north, the New England Emigrant Aid Company (NEAC) was formed.
		In fact, a company of about 150 union troops had been on Anderson’s trail for some time and was not far behind them.
	www.geocities.com /mosouthron/partisans/Anderson.html (1866 words)

	TMIP\|Clearinghouse\|Quick Response Freight Manual: Final Report (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		The City of Lawrence was founded in 1854 by the New England Emigrant Aid Company in Boston and was planned to be the capital of Kansas.
		Their locations correspond to the areas of highest employment as shown in Figure 9.2 (centroid sizes are proportional to zonal employment).
		New industries or expansion of existing ones can add additional truck traffic both to nearby streets and to outlying streets.
	tmip.fhwa.dot.gov /clearinghouse/docs/quick/ch9.stm (4991 words)

	Joseph Denison - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Joseph J. Denison (October 1, 1815–February 19, 1900) was a minister; the first President of Kansas State University; and a founder of Manhattan, Kansas, having volunteered to go to Kansas Territory with the New England Emigrant Aid Company in 1855 to fight against the extension of slavery.
		Denison was born in Bernardston, Massachusetts and raised in Colrain, Massachusetts.
		In 1855, Denison was convinced by his brother-in-law, Isaac Goodnow, that he should move to Kansas Territory to help establish a new town for the New England Emigrant Aid Company.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Joseph_Denison (596 words)

	Massachusetts Emigrant Aid Company - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Massachusetts Emigrant Aid Company was founded in 1854 by Eli Thayer of Massachusetts to fight against the extension of slavery to Kansas Territory.
		Settlers sent by the Company were centrally involved in the "Bleeding Kansas" saga.
		The company was directly responsible for creating the Kansas towns of Lawrence and Manhattan, and it played a key role in founding Topeka and Osawatomie.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Massachusetts_Emigrant_Aid_Company (155 words)

	Sumner's Speech - Dispatch Depot Message Board
		Sumner then attacked the idea that the New England Emigrant Aid Company was the cause of the problems in Kansas.
		He called this the "Apology absurd" and pointed out that the New England society was entirely legal and based on the idea of simply supporting freedom in the territory.
		He expounded that the Company had "supplied no arms of any kind to anybody," a statement that was not entirely true; whether Sumner realized it or not.
	civilwartalk.com /forums/showthread.php?t=19187 (3195 words)

	The Impending Crisis
		Even before the 1854 act had been passed, Eli Thayer, a businessman and educator from Worcester, Massachusetts, had organized the New England Emigrant Aid Company to promote the emigration of antislavery New Englanders to Kansas to "vote to make it free." By the summer of 1855, more than 9000 pioneers had settled in Kansas.
		Slaveholders from Missouri feared that the New England Emigrant Aid Company wanted to convert Kansas into a haven for runaway slaves.
		Brooks then quietly left the Senate chamber, leaving Sumner "as senseless as a corpse for several minutes, his head bleeding copiously from the frightful wounds, and the blood saturating his clothes." It took Sumner three years to recover from his injuries and return to his Senate seat.
	www.hfac.uh.edu /gl/1850s9.htm (929 words)

	Shalor Winchell Eldridge (1816-1899) Letters (KC217) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Shalor Winchell Eldridge was born at West Springfield, Massachusetts, the son of Lyman Eldridge, a mechanic, and Phoebe Winchell Eldridge.
		In 1855, the New England Emigrant Aid Company hired Eldridge to came to Kansas City and operate the American Hotel (Gillis House) as the headquarters for emigrants brought to the Kansas Territory.
		As tensions heightened within the city over the slavery question and opposition to the Emigrant Aid Company developed, Eldridge bought the hotel and was able, for a time, to maintain better relations with the community.
	www.umkc.edu /WHMCKC/Collections/IKC0217.HTM (346 words)

	MHS Amos Adams Lawrence Papers, 1817-1886 : Guide to the Collection
		Lawrence, a strong supporter of a free Kansas, was instrumental in establishing the New England Emigrant Aid Company, which financed settlement by free state supporters.
		Lawrence served as treasurer of the Emigrant Aid Company for the first two years of its existence.
		Eli Thayer and Charles Robinson corresponded extensively with Lawrence, Robinson in his role first as the Kansas agent for the New England Emigrant Aid Company and later as the first Governor of Kansas.
	www.masshist.org /findingaids/doc.cfm?fa=fa0166 (2165 words)

	WebRoots Library U.S. History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		The Emigrant Aid Company bought his claim for $500, and the ground was supposed to be clear.
		The agent of the company, Dr. Robinson, proposed to let the matter rest till the question could be referred to the land office, or to the courts, where the rights of each could be legally determined.
		The news of the outrage spread over the country on the wings of the lightning, and stirred the wildest excitement and indignation throughout the entire North.
	www.webroots.org /library/usahist/aholk001.html (13025 words)

	JAMES CHRISTIAN
		It had been purchased for the New England Emigrant Aid Company, to be used as a depot for the "organized emigration" which they were directing to Kansas.
		The news of the threatened invasion and the intention to destroy Lawrence spread rapidly through the territory, with the result that the free-state men rushed to the aid of the besieged, until there were probably 800 men armed and equipped for defense in the town.
		In connection with his management of the aid committee for the relief of the people of Kansas in the great drought of 1860 he was charged with irregular conduct, but was exonerated in March, 1861, by a committee composed of W. Guthrie, F. Baker, and C. Lines.
	www.ausbcomp.com /~bbott/cowley/OLDNEWS/WORTMAW/CHRIS.htm (18913 words)

	Wili
		It was the New England Emigrant Aid Company that brought Ruben Miderding to Kansas.
		For five years, he wandered aimlessly around New England and happened to be in the Boston area when the New England Emigrant Aid Company was recruiting.
		Wili tried his best to make her understand that his Indians were moving to the new ways, that they were not savages and that he loved his Papa and Mama.
	home.comcast.net /~gklopstein/wili/wili-10.html (5002 words)

	NPS, The American Civil War, About the Civil War: Timeline of Events/Lead-in
		This last piece of legislation allowed for "popular sovereignty," that is, a decision by settlers in Kansas and Nebraska whether their new states would be slave or free.
		The first settlers from the Massachusetts Emigrant Aid Company, supporting a Free State, arrive in Lawrence, Kansas.
		More New Englanders (New England Emigrant Aid Company), favoring a Free State, journey to Kansas to participate in the election of the territorial legislature.
	cwar.nps.gov /civilwar/abcivwarTimeline.htm (592 words)

	Bleeding Kansas
		Eli Thayer organized the New England Emigrant Aid Company, which sent settlers to Kansas to secure it as a free territory.
		By the summer of 1855, approximately 1,200 New Englanders had made the journey to the new territory, armed to fight for freedom.
		The new state legislature enacted what Northerners called the "Bogus Laws," which incorporated the Missouri slave code.
	www.pbs.org /wgbh/aia/part4/4p2952.html (1284 words)

	City churches trace roots to pioneer days \| LJWorld.com
		In 1854, the New England Emigrant Aid Company sent a hardy band of 29 men to found a city in the Kansas Territory, hoping to settle the land with as many abolitionists as possible.
		The Unitarian Church was used as a hospital in the aftermath of Quantrill's Raid (Aug. 21, 1863)," said Carol Huettner, administrator of the Unitarian Fellowship of Lawrence, 1263 N. 1100 Road.
		They were among the group sent out by the New England Emigrant Aid Company.
	www.ljworld.com /section/150th/story/181855 (2095 words)

	Topeka: History - Westward Expansion Targets Kaw River Valley
		Holliday formed a company, naming himself as president and the Lawrence contingent and Chase as stockholders.
		Robinson attracted antislavery New Englanders to settle in Topeka, thus counteracting the influence of a proslavery group in Tecumseh.
		A Free State constitutional convention was held in Topeka but federal troops arrested the new legislators when they tried to meet on July 4, 1855.
	www.city-data.com /us-cities/The-Midwest/Topeka-History.html (689 words)

	Happy 149th, Lawrence \| LJWorld.com
		Exactly 149 years ago today, a group of men met to establish a town constitution and assembly for a small settlement on the banks of the Kansas River.
		They eventually settled on "Lawrence," in honor of Amos Lawrence, a free state supporter and booster of the New England Emigrant Aid Company, which first settled the region.
		Now, nearly 150 years later, Lawrence has boomed from an anti-slavery village of about 200, with men emerging from their tents to gather around a campfire for meals, to a bustling city of more than 80,000.
	www2.ljworld.com /news/2003/sep/18/happy_149th_lawrence (1258 words)

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