A collection of the correspondence and papers of the Rev.
Jotham
Meeker, Baptist minister, Indian missionary, and printer. Meeker devised
a phonetic printing system which enabled him to print in an Indian language
as easily and cheaply as in English. Among items he produced were a newspaper,
the Shawnee
Sun (left), and a code of tribal laws of the Ottawa Indians. The Dept.
of Special Collections at Miller Nichols Library owns one of only two copies
of the Shawnee Sun known to exist.
Form: Microfilm,
7027
Access: Guide
to the Microfilm Edition of the Jotham Meeker Papers, 1825-1864, in the Kansas
State Historical Society.
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