The Kramer Family of Douglas County, Kansas

Fairfax, VA: Self Published (1st Edition, April 1999). Hardcover, 109 pages.

About the Book: The Kramer family was one of the German immigrant families that settled on the absentee Shawnee Indian lands in Douglas County, Kansas, in 1864. Tracing and documenting the movement of this family from Württemberg in southwest Germany to the Iowa frontier, to western Missouri, and then to eastern Kansas was a challenging task for the author.

About the Author: Helen McShane Bailey (1916-2013) was born in Kansas and grew up in Colorado. In 1941, she became a "government girl" and moved to Washington, DC where she worked for General George C. Marshall in the US Army Office of the Chief of Staff. From 1941-1945, she was the Head of the Records Section in the War Department. From 1945 to 1948, she was an historian for the US Army, writing and editing the US Army's official history series of World War II. From 1958 to 1959, she was a research assistant for the George C. Marshall Research Foundation. From 1968 until she retired in 1987, she was a historian for the Joint Chiefs of Staff in the Department of Defense at the Pentagon. Helen was an active member in the American Historical Association, the Society of Historians of American Foreign Relations, the World War II Studies Association and the Society for History in the Federal Government.