Scope and Contents Note From the Collection: This document records the purchase of 160 acres in Washington County, Kansas under the Morrill Land Grant Act of 1862. It is signed by Charles White on behalf of President Ulysses S. Grant. On the back, there is a handwritten record of the deed's filing in October of 1873. The proceeds of this sale supported agricultural and mechanical education in Tennessee. As East Tennessee University had been designated the land grant school for Tennessee in 1869, the sale benefited this school that...