What looked like a routine 1899 Kansas deed turned out to preserve part of a decades-long friendship. A family biography explains why George W. Allen of Massachusetts sold 160 acres in Woodson County to Fred Mentzer—and connects the transaction to a covered-wagon journey, a Kansas homestead, and the Mentzer family’s early years on the prairie.
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Of Middlesex county, Massachusetts Phillip Andrew Mentzer [1] was born about Mar 1793. [2–3] He obtained a marriage license to marry Orinda Miles on 16… Read More »Phillip A Mentzer
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