Pillsbury-Weston
- Stephen PillsburyStephen Pillsbury was a Baptist minister in Hebron and North Londonderry, New Hampshire during the first half of the nineteenth century. He and his wife Lavinia had eight children. Their children’s lives are described below.
- Josiah PillsburyJosiah Pillsbury left New Hampshire in 1840 to work as a clerk and merchant in New York City. He returned to North Londonderry in the 1850s. From there, he emigrated to Zeandale in Riley County, Kansas in 1854 with his wife Nora, his brother Hobart, and his brother in law, William Marshall.
- L. Hobart PillsburyL. Hobart Pillsbury emigrated to Zeandale with his brother Josiah in 1854, but returned to New Hampshire some time before the Civil War. He served in a battery of Union artillery he had helped to raise. Hobart fought at the Battle of Fredericksburg in December 1862, and took part in campaigns in Kentucky and Mississippi in 1863. After the war, he traveled several times between Kansas and New Hampshire, but seems to have settled down to start a business in New Hampshire by the 1880s.
- Anne PillsburyAnne Pillsbury (1827-1856) married William Marshall, who emigrated to Kansas in 1854. Anne's health was poor, and she died shortly after joining her husband in Kansas in 1856.
- Edwin PillsburyEdwin Pillsbury went to sea, signing on with a whaling ship out of New Bedford, Massachusetts in the 1840s. He and his family could not afford to emigrate to Kansas with his brothers.
- William PillsburyWilliam Pillsbury served with Union forces in the Civil War, and afterwards led a relatively quiet life in New Hampshire.
- Mary PillsburyMary Pillsbury (1817-1894) ran away from home as a young woman to study art in Hartford, Connecticut. She became an artist, painting miniatures, portraits, landscapes, and religious subjects like "Angel Gabriel" and "Infant Saviour." Some of her paintings were exhibited at the National Academy in 1842. Mary continued to paint after she married New York City merchant Valentine Weston around 1840. After her husband's death in 1863, Mary and her daughter Eva lived with relatives in New Hampshire before moving to Lawrence, Kansas in 1874.
- Stephen Pillsbury Stephen Pillsbury worked with his brother Josiah in New York City in the 1840s. He moved to Boston in 1846 and settled in Andover, Massachusetts in 1849.
- Lavinia PillsburyLavinia Pillsbury (d. 1871) married Samuel Andrews of New Hampshire in 1853 after living and working with the Westons in New York City for a time in the 1840s. The letters of Lavinia and her two daughters Sarah and Anne comprise the bulk of the collection.
From the guide to the Family Correspondence, 1828-1896, (University of Kansas Kenneth Spencer Research Library Kansas Collection)
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