William Dominick Matthews was an African-American abolitionist, Civil War Union officer and Freemason. He was leader in Leavenworth, Kansas, as well as nationally.

Daniel Read Anthony was an American publisher, women's suffragist, and abolitionist. He moved to Kansas, where he published the Leavenworth Times in Leavenworth, Kansas, as well as other newspapers in the area. He was a leader of the New England Emigrant Aid Company. He was a younger brother of activist Susan B. Anthony.