The series contains original affidavits of registration that record personal information about each registrant, their photograph affixed to the majority of documents, and the registrants fingerprints. All of these are specific to Kansas, and most have the actual documents attached.
Frank Sigel Dietrich, born January 23, 1863, near Ottawa, Kansas, came from German immigrant parents. After his father’s death when Frank was an infant, his mother ensured his education, leading him to graduate from Brown University in 1887. In 1891, Dietrich began practicing law in Idaho, eventually leading a successful law firm and serving as attorney for the Oregon Short Line Railroad. A committed Republican, he ran for district judge in 1898. Dietrich is married to Martha Behle, and they have a daughter, Margaret Kathryn.