This black and white portrait depicts Edward Payson Fitch. He was born in Hopkinton, Massachusetts in 1857 and was one of the early settlers in Kansas Territory. On August 21, 1863, he was killed in Quantrill’s Raid on Lawrence. An intruder shot him in the heart, then burned down his house with his body still inside. His wife and three children escaped.

Battle for Missouri, 1861-1865 -- Military History of Missouri and Kansas
Bleeding Kansas, Bloodletting Missouri
Picturing the War
Presidential Election of 1860, Secession, and the War's Commencement
Surviving a Guerrilla War
Border Ruffians
Bushwhackers
Guerrillas
Jayhawkers
Quantrill's Raid on Lawrence

Lawrence, Kansas
Douglas County, Kansas

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Watkins Community Museum of History

88.40.11; C.158.27-.29

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