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Ephraim C. Dawes papers

 Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Dawes
Abstract

Letters, diaries, scrapbooks and writings of Dawes and others, miscellaneous personal and military items, relating to Dawes’s service in the United States Civil War as adjutant and major in the 53rd Ohio Volunteer Infantry. Also material relating to his historical interests and his subsequent activities in the rail and coal industries in the Midwest.

Dates: 1836-1905; Majority of material found within 1855-1895

Rodgers Family Papers

 Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Rodgers
Abstract Correspondence, essays, financial and legal documents, genealogies, journals, newspaper clippings, and four photographs relating to the Rodgers family, descendants of Rev. John Rodger (1735-1812). The papers document the life of an American pioneer family in Virginia, Kansas, Illinois, Iowa, Oregon, New Mexico, and California, and cover topics such as farming life, homestead claims, politics, livestock and grain industries, and religion. There is an overland journal penned by Andrew Rodgers,...
Dates: 1773-1925; Majority of material found within 1830 - 1890

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Amateur journalism -- Ohio -- Warren -- Specimens 1
Atlanta Campaign, 1864 -- Personal narratives 1
Businessmen -- Middle West -- History -- 19th century -- Sources 1
Coal mines and mining -- Middle West 1
College students -- United States -- Correspondence 1
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Correspondence -- 1751-1800 1
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Correspondence -- 1901-1950 1
Diaries -- 1851-1900 1
Families -- Illinois 1
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Freedmen -- Correspondence 1
Frontier and pioneer life -- Middle West -- 19th century -- Sources 1
Genealogical correspondence -- United States 1
Husband and wife -- United States -- Correspondence 1
Illinois -- Politics and government -- Sources 1
Jackson (Miss.) -- History -- Siege, 1863 -- Personal narratives 1
Middle West -- Correspondence 1
Middle West -- Genealogy 1
Middle West -- Rural conditions -- 19th century -- Sources 1
Middle West -- Social life and customs -- 19th century -- Sources 1
Oregon National Historic Trail -- History 1
Oregon Territory -- History -- Sources 1
Overland journeys to the Pacific -- Sources 1
Parent and adult child -- United States -- Correspondence 1
Physicians -- Ohio 1
Railroads -- Middle West -- History -- 19th century -- Sources 1
Rockbridge County (Va.) -- History -- 18th century -- Sources 1
Rockbridge County (Va.) -- History -- 19th century -- Sources 1
Rural families -- United States -- History -- 19th century -- Sources 1
Rural women -- United States 1
Scrapbooks -- 1851-1900 1
Shiloh, Battle of, Tenn., 1862 -- Personal narratives 1
Slavery -- United States -- Public opinion 1
Soldiers -- Ohio -- Correspondence 1
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Correspondence 1
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Personal narratives 1
Vicksburg (Miss.) -- History -- Siege, 1863 -- Personal narratives 1
Virginia -- Politics and government -- Sources 1
War wounds -- United States -- History -- 19th century -- Sources 1
Warren County (Ill.) -- History -- 19th century -- Sources 1
Whitman Massacre, 1847 1
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Names
Blackman, George Curtis, 1819-1871 1
Cutler, William Parker, 1812-1889 1
Davidson family 1
Dawes family 1
Dawes, E. C. (Ephraim Cutler), 1840-1895 1