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A. Victor Donahey papers

Collection — Multiple Containers

Identifier: MSS 1611

Scope and Contents The Donahey diaries represent a small window to the career of Ohio Governor and Senator A. Victor Donahey. The diaries date from his time as Governor and topics covered include his vetoes, appointments, state and local politics, and his disliking the Republican General Assembly. Donahey also writes about family life, political speeches, and the amount of time he spends hearing constituents, lobbyists, and legislators who requested for his support for programs or their funding in the state...

Dates: 1924-1940

Found in: Ohio History Connection

Aho and Gowday Family collection

Collection — Multiple Containers

Identifier: MSS 1436 AV

Scope and Contents The Aho and Gowday collection includes photographs and paper material from the donor's husband, Arthur Aho, who was active in soap box derby races in Warren, Ohio, in the late 1950's. The collection also includes photographs, diaries, cookbooks and personal material from the donor's grandmother, Mary Goodiel Gowday, who recorded the working and living conditions in the lumber camps in Northeastern Ohio and western Pennsylvania from 1936-1946. An additional box of research files created by the...

Dates: 1876-1990

Found in: Ohio History Connection

Albert C. Houghton family papers

Collection — Multiple Containers

Identifier: MSS 1002

Scope and Contents The Albert C. Houghton Family Papers date from 1861 to 1924 and contain materials related to the Houghton Family of Wellington, Lorain County, Ohio. The collection includes correspondence, dairies, maps and military papers. Most of the collection pertains to Albert C, Houghton, but materials and correspondence from Henry W. Houghton and Henry S. Houghton are included. Also included is a collection of writings of Albert C. Houghton. The collection is divided into four series: Series 1: Albert C....

Dates: 1861-1924

Found in: Ohio History Connection

Alexander McDowell McCook papers

Collection — Multiple Containers

Identifier: MSS 1094

Scope and Contents The Alexander McDowell McCook papers include correspondence and news clippings related to McCook, his family and career after the Civil War. There is correspondence and clippings about copying "The Fighting McCook's" painting between McCook's grandson, Alexander McCook Craighead, Chauncey Baker and artist Jacob Royer and a letter from the U.S. War Dept. appointing McCook to represent the United States at the coronation of Czar Nicholas II in Moscow, Russia in 1896. Additionally, there are three...

Dates: 1858-1962

Found in: Ohio History Connection

Alvada Beck Journal collection

Collection

Identifier: MSS 1060

Scope and Contents The Alvada Beck Journals Collection spans one cf. and dates from 1918-1959. The collection contains the complete bound journals of Beck, a farm wife living in Morrow County, Ohio. The collection also contains typed transcriptions and genealogical information.

Dates: 1918-1959

Found in: Ohio History Connection

Bliss Morse papers

Collection — Box: 1

Identifier: MSS 1035

Scope and Contents The Bliss Morse Papers contain one-half cubic foot of letters and diaries, dated 1858-1871, the majority of which written by Morse while serving as a corporal in Company D, 105th Ohio Volunteer Infantry Regiment. Morse's letters are addressed mostly to his mother in LeRoy, Ohio. The letters document Morse's duties and experiences as a soldier in various campaigns in Kentucky, Tennessee, Georgia and the Carolinas. Morse often writes about his feeling towards the events he participates in and...

Dates: 1858-1871

Found in: Ohio History Connection

Bradford-Swagger family papers

Collection

Identifier: MSS 1235

Scope and Contents The Bradford-Swagger Family Papers consist of _ cf. and date from 1815-1867. The collection includes one journal, dated 1815-1843, containing the personal account records and other information of James Bradford, Coitsville, Muskingum County, Ohio, and eighteen letters, dated 1838-1867, written to or by friends and members of the Bradford and Swagger families. Also included are transcriptions of the journal and letters.

Dates: 1815-1867

Found in: Ohio History Connection

Brown family papers

Collection

Identifier: MSS 1647

Scope and Contents Collection of letters, legal papers, certificates and genealogical information related to the Brown family of Greene and Warren Counties, Ohio. Includes a journal of essays written by Thomas J. Brown, miscellaneous bonds and deeds of David W. Brown and miscellaneous papers of Annie Brown, including educational materials and documents.

Dates: 1829-1924

Found in: Ohio History Connection

Campus Martius Museum collection

Collection — Multiple Containers

Identifier: MSS 955

Scope and Contents Manuscript collections, prints, broadsides, drawings, scrapbooks, and certificates transferred to the Ohio Historical Society from Campus Martius Museum in Marrietta, Ohio, relate primarily to Washington County's early and prominent persons, businesses, organizations, and government. Includes papers of Edith S. Reiter and the Putnam, Wilking-Verges, Dawes, Buell and Curtis-Preston families, as well as court records, deeds, and land grants.

Dates: 1652-1976

Found in: Ohio History Connection

Cecil D. Smith collection

Collection

Identifier: MSS 1612 AV

Scope and Contents This collection is approximately 1 cubic foot in size and is divided into three series and thirty-three (33) folders. Series I contains four folders, in which folder 1 contains Cecil's daily diary. Folders 2 thru 4 are letters and a roll call of officers in the 329th Infantry. Series II contains eighteen (18) folders of military and civilian pamphlets. They range from military bulletins to maps and guidebooks of the French area both in English and French. Series III has eleven (11) folders of...

Dates: 1906-1977

Found in: Ohio History Connection

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