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ADDISON DANFORD
| Addison Danford, of Linn county, was born in Laconia, Belknap county, New Hampshire, July 4, 1829; settled at Mound City, Kan., February, 1857; was a member of the house of representatives in 1857 and 1858; was a member of the Leavenworth constitutional convention, March 1858; was a member of the committee on credentials at the convention at Osawatomie, May 18, 1859, when the Republican Party in Kansas was organized; was state senator in 1865, from Fort Scott; was attorney-general from January 12, 1869, to January 12, 1871. His last place of residence was Colorado Springs, Colo., where he died in 1901.
(Transactions of the Kansas State Historical Society 1907-1908, Vol. X, edited by Geo. W. Martin, Secretary, State Printing Office, Topeka, 1908, page 210) |