1859 MO Ltr/Cover: Baptist preacher/land speculator w/rare Kansas Terr Bus Card
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Marvelous 1859 frontier Missouri letter from Baptist preacher Jeremiah Farmer, Harrisonville, Missouri to G.M. Cooper, St. Francisville, Missouri. Included with Farmer's advice about land in the Kansas Territory is a rare business card from E.W. Robinson, County Clerk and Recorder of Lykins County, Kansas Territory [county is now defunct]. Cover has stamp with line cancel and "Harrisonville Mo July 27" postmark. Harrisonville, founded in 1837 is the county seat of Cass County, on the border with Kansas. Addressed to "Mr. G.M. Cooper St. Francisville MO" St. Francisville in extreme northeastern Missouri was founded in 1833 on the Des Moines River and is now an unincorporated community in Clark county. Recipient G.M. Cooper was born in 1807 and lived in Vermillion County, Illinois moving to Clark County in the 1850s. Author Jeremiah Farmer (1810-1881) [see #3 from internet] was born in Anderson County, Tennessee and lived in Knox County [1815-1818], and Roane and Meigs counties, all in Tennessee while his father ran a mill and iron works while doing a little preaching at the local Baptist church. Its important to note that many rural ministers received no ministerial salary and had to provide for themselves and family by farming, teaching or running a store or mill. Farmer left school in 1828 to superintend his father's business and
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