Death in Kansas
His private business ventures were ruined by the Panic of 1855, and in 1857, Ransom gratefully accepted appointment from U.S. President James Buchanan as receiver of the public monies for the Osage Land Office in Fort Scott, Kansas.
He died at the age of 61 in Fort Scott and is interred at Mountain Home Cemetery in Kalamazoo.
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