Adelbert Ames letters 1863

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Adelbert Ames letters 1863

http://archives.nypl.org/mss/6637

American General in the Civil War and the Spanish-American War. This folder contains a letter to addressed to the Officers of the 20th Regiment thanking them for a sword sash and belt dated 18 Aug. 1863. Also found in the folder is a slip of paper addressed to Worthington C. Ford.

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New York Public Library. Manuscripts and Archives Division

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SNAC Resource ID: 6314261

New York Public Library. Manuscripts and Archives Division

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Ford, Worthington Chauncey, 1858-1941

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Librarian and historian. From the description of Papers of Worthington Chauncey Ford, undated. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 71068790 American historical editor, bibliographer, and statistician. From the description of Letters of Worthington Chauncey Ford [manuscript], 1886-1900. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 647806452 Worthington Chauncey Ford (1858-1941), the eldest son of Gordon Lester Ford and Emily Fowler Ford, first worked as a cas...

Ames, Adelbert, 1835-1933

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Adelbert Ames was born in 1835 in the town of Rockland (then known as East Thomaston), located in Knox County, Maine. He was the younger of two sons of Jesse Ames, a sea captain who would later purchase what became the Ames Mill (renowned as the producers of Malt-O-Meal) in Northfield, Minnesota, and Martha Bradbury Ames. Adelbert Ames also grew up to be a sailor and became a mate on a clipper ship, and he also served briefly as a merchant seaman on his father's ship. On July 1, 1856, he ente...