Excerpt from A Directory of the Kansas Historical Exhibit, in the Kansas State Building, at the World's Columbian Exposition, 1893 15. Gen. William T. Sherman was, in 1859, for a few months, a resident of Leavenworth, Kas., and, for a brief period, of Shawnee county, near Topeka. He always took a great interest in the growth and development of Kansas. He was born in Ohio, in 1820, and died in New York city, February 14, 1891. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.