Daniel Read Anthony fought in Kansas alongside John Brown. This photograph was taken when as mayor of Leavenworth he survived gunfights and torched illegal establishments. A leader in the state Republican Party, he hosted Abraham Lincoln’s 1859 visit to the city. His sister Susan moved to Kansas to live with him in 1865 and coedited his newspaper, aiming to make it the “most radical” in the territory. More than a half-century later his son, Daniel Read Anthony, Jr., would twice vote for the Anthony Amendment as a member of Congress.
Source photograph: Kansas Historical Society.
Date: c. 1864 (1854–74)
Daniel Read Anthony fought in Kansas alongside John Brown. This photograph was taken when as mayor of Leavenworth he survived gunfights and torched illegal establishments. A leader in the state Republican Party, he hosted Abraham Lincoln’s 1859 visit to the city. His sister Susan moved to Kansas to live with him in 1865 and coedited his newspaper, aiming to make it the “most radical” in the territory. More than a half-century later his son, Daniel Read Anthony, Jr., would twice vote for the Anthony Amendment as a member of Congress.
Source photograph: Kansas Historical Society.
Date: c. 1864 (1854–74)