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Joes W. Wilson papers

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Description: Correspondence and other items concerning politics in Ohio, especially the Know-Nothing Party and related movements.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Production date: 1852-1856.
Call number: mssHM 27188-27212
Creator: Wilson, Joel W(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Acquired from Allen Wilson, March 1943.
Restrictions: Open for use by qualified researchers and by appointment. Please contact Reader Services at the Huntington Library for more information.

Wilson Keys diary

Manuscripts

Wilson Keys writes in detail about his troops' movements, and his experience in Johnson Island, Ohio, and the Battle of Cold Harbor, Virginia. With the diary is a memo book belonging to Milt Kemble of Ohio with scattered entries from 1861 to 1876.

mssHM 29057

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Oliver Frank Wilson letters to Ursula L. Wilson

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HM 80954: Letter from Oliver Frank Wilson to Ursula L. Wilson from Willapa, Washington Territory on March 16, 1887. Wilson begins the letter with common pleasantries concerning the family's health and news. Concerning the weather he writes, "This is Wednesday and it has rained since Sunday morning that is the only falt with this country, when it is bad it is to bad and when it is good it is good all over" (p. 2). Ursula reports that their mother is currently in debt and owes approximately $400. Wilson offers suggestions and states that the cow "should be the last thing to part with..." (p. 3). He closes the letter "Give my respects to all the young folks that I used to know and excuse bad writing & so" (p. 4).

mssHM 80954-80958

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Phinehas Adams Papers

Manuscripts

This collection contains 200 items of the family of Phinehas Adams of Connecticut and Ohio. The bulk of this collection contains letters, manuscripts, documents including Connecticut and Ohio land deeds, documents, personal and business affairs of the Adams and their relatives, chiefly concerning land transactions; everyday life in Ohio in the middle of the 19th century. There are also genealogy notes relating to the Adams and Bennett family in ephemera; 1 map; and several printed items.

mssHM 79415-79479

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Abram Keller Shaifer antebellum movable scrapbook

Manuscripts

This scrapbook was assembled by Abram Keller Shaifer and features clippings of articles, poems, and other printed matter that were published in various newspapers and magazines. Shaifer created flaps and little doors out of colored paper to expand the scrapbook pages in order to hold additional text. Included in the scrapbook are all 19 installments of Alexander Walker's "Jackson and New Orleans" which were published in the New Orleans Weekly Delta. Other topics featured in the scrapbook include steamboat accidents, Kansas and enslavement, the telegraph system, plantation operation, the Know-Nothing Party, and world events.

mssHM 84539

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William B. Le Couteulx letter to "Mon Cher Monsieur et ami,"

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This letter, written in French by Le Couteulx in Buffalo, New York, to a friend in France, describes in detail the Franklin shipwreck off New York and how the author and his family were saved. The letter also provides specific information about the Know Nothing Party, a political movement of the time characterized by anti-immigration, mostly anti-Catholic, sentiment. More specifically Le Couteulx talks about a Catholic church being burned to the ground and attempts to "burn other churches." He also talks about Catholic clergy being fined as a result of their actions.

mssHM 77963

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John B. Wilson letter to Emma Moore Wilson

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Letter from John Bordeaux Wilson to his mother Emma Moore Wilson, written shortly after Wilson had joined the engineering corps of the Union Pacific Railroad in 1868. In the letter, written at Fort Sanders, Dakota Territory, Wilson writes of his dissatisfaction with being removed from Colonel Joseph Opdyke Hudnutt's company and placed instead with a Mr. Lawrence's party, which he writes will "operate much further west" than the other and work east for 250 or 300 miles from the Green River until they meet the other parties. He notes that Colonel Hudnutt's party was headed for the North Platte while John O'Neill's party would work at Medicine Bow, and gives a description of the various supplies carried by each party. The remainder of the letter describes Wilson's attempts to stay warm in his tent and the meals that he has been given. With envelope, marked "Union Pacific Railway Company, Engineer's Office, Fort Sanders - Dakota."

mssHM 74318

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