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Osawatomie

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Osawatomie

Town in Miami County, eastern-central Kansas, on the Marais des Cygnes River, 75 km/47 mi southwest of Kansas City; population (1990) 4,600. It is a rail distribution point for grain and fruit. Founded in 1855 by the New England Emigrant Aid Company, it was a temporary home to the abolitionist John Brown, and a station on the Underground Railroad, providing sanctuary and assistance for escaped black slaves before the American Civil War. In 1856 it was the site of the Battle of Osawatomie, a bloody clash between Brown and his antislavery forces and proslavery Kansans.



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He entered the ministry in 1957 in Eugene and served as a pastor in Eastland, Bartlett and Holland Texas, Osawatomie, Kan.
His middle name was derived from Osawatomie, the town in Kansas where abolitionist John Brown started his antislavery campaign.
One might note Theodore Roosevelt's speech "The New Nationalism" in Osawatomie, Kansas, in 1910, where he said The National Government belongs to the whole American people, and where the whole American people are interested, that interest can be guarded only by the National Government.
 
 
 
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