The diary mainly consists of drafts of a petition dated November 1864 to be sent to Lt. General Harder "in behalf of the federal officers confined in this military prison, hereby respectfully submit in protest against the treatment which we haveā¦
He was intimately involved with the establishment of the University serving on the first Executive Committee and the first Board of Regents. He had also been the first Governor of Kansas and was elected to the Kansas State Senate.