Naaman K. Ployd scrapbooks Bulk, 1901-1912 1849-1912

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Naaman K. Ployd scrapbooks Bulk, 1901-1912 1849-1912

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Naaman K. Ployd (1840-1918) was a Civil War veteran, newspaper columnist, and local historian who lived in the Germantown section of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The Naaman K. Ployd scrapbooks, 1849-1912, consist of ten scrapbooks relating largely to the Civil War and Germantown history.

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Germantown Historical Society

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Grand Army of the Republic

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Founded in 1866, in Decatur, Ill. From the description of Grand Army of the Republic scrapbooks, 1913. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 276172404 The Grand Army of the Republic (GAR) was a fraternal organization composed of Civil War Union military veterans, formed in Decatur, Illinois in 1866. The GAR became one of the first advocacy groups in American politics, lobbying for black veterans, pensions, and supporting Republican candidates. The GAR waned during the 1870s as the ...

Ployd, Naaman Keyser, 1840-1918

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"Naaman Keyser Ployd was a newspaperman and Germantown historian, who was born July 20, 1840. His great-great-grandfather was Captain John Miller, who fought under George Washington in the Revolution. Ployd was born on East Haines Street, which was then known as Old Methodist Lane. He was a member of Company B of the 119th Pennsylvania Volunteers and was, for many years, active in the affairs of Ellis Post Six, Grand Army of the Republic, of which he was a past commander. Ployd was ...

Ployd family

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Grand Army of the Republic. Ellis Post No. 6. (Philadelphia, Pa).

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General Louis Wagner founded Ellis Post No. 6 in 1879. The Post was active in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century in the Germantown section of Philadelphia. The post dispersed its funds in 1928 to its remaining twenty-two members, which suggests the beginning of the disbanding of the Post. From the guide to the Records of Ellis Post No. 6, Grand Army of the Republic, Bulk, 1879-1908, 1879-1937, (Grand Army of the Republic Civil War Museum and Library) ...