Crawford - Capper Burial Site

Samuel Crawford was a publisher, attorney, farmer, and financial agent who served as the third Governor of Kansas from 1856 to 1868 and as head of the 19th Kansas Volunteer Cavalry from 1868 to 1869. His wife Isabel, the daughter of Enoch Chase, a founder of Topeka, became the youngest First Lady of Kansas at age 18. Arthur Capper, the twentieth Governor of Kansas from 1915 to 1919 and a U.S. Senator from 1919 to 1949, married Florence, the daughter of Samuel and Isabel Crawford, and founded Capper Foundation for Crippled Children and Capper Publications.

Topeka, Kansas · United States