From the Lawrence Daily World for Jan. 26, 1909: “The university will probably be given $20,000 from the federal government to settle the time-honored Emigrant Aid Hotel claim, which has stood on the credit books of KU for the past three decades. The claim arose from the destruction of the old Free State Hotel, razed in 1859 by the order of a U.S. marshal who was a pro-slaver. The hotel belonged to the Emigrant Aid Society of New England … .”