KTWU Sunflower Journeys 2002 - Episode 1510A - The Ritchie House
A FRIENDSHIP FORMED IN TURBULENT TIMES--Brown and Ritchie left deep and lasting footprints in Topeka history, by Steve Fry
"OLD RITCHIE CEMETERY" FALL 2001
Southwest Topeka Cemetery Resting Place Of Black Soldiers, by Dick King
Book--John
Ritchie: Portrait of an Uncommon Man
Separate sections of the book can be found below
Ritchie/Shelledy
Family History: Our People Who Came To Kansas Territory in 1855 (Compiled
And Written By Mary Evelyn Ritchie) (PDF
version here)
JOHN RITCHIE’S CIVIL
WAR: A Documentary History. by Bryce Benedict
Wrecking Slavery from the Kansas
Territory: The "Topeka Boys" as Saboteurs, 1855-1861
Account
of the death of Deputy U.S. Marshal Leonard Arms (PDF)
Terrible
Homicide –"The Kansas Record" (Topeka)
Monday Morning April 28, 1860
Public Meeting in Lawrence "Kansas State Record"
Saturday, May 5, 1860
A Just Judge "Kansas
State Record" April 28, 1860"
The Story of
the Killing of Leonard Ames - The Topeka "Capital"
- July 30, 1881
Lewis
Bodwell's Account of Assisting Slaves Containing Description of the
Ritchie House (PDF) "The Kansas Telephone"
(Manhattan, Kansas) August 1893
Lewis
Bodwell, Frontier Preacher: The Early Years, Part 1, by Russell
K. Hickman
Lewis Bodwell,
Frontier Preacher: The Early Years (Conclusion), by Russell K.
Hickman
Excerpts that reference John
Ritchie from William G. Cutler's "History of the State of Kansas",
1883, A. T. Andreas, chicago, IL
Mrs.
H. C. Root's Paper on the Life of John Ritchie April 27, 1903 (PDF)
Major Harrison Hannahs account of John Ritchie
and Washburn University from the Rome, N.Y. Daily Sentinel dated February
27, 1911
The Ritchie Lime Kiln,
an article from the Topeka Daily State Journal written by Lloyd Sieber
on Saturday, June 4, 1921
Mary Margaret Ritchie
Wright's recollections of her grandfather John Ritchie
Narrative
Report for Evaluating Eligibility for the National Register of Historic
Places and/or the Register of Historic Kansas Places
(PDF version here)
