Ransom Dunn papers 1796-1900

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Ransom Dunn papers 1796-1900

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Free Will Baptist minister, professor and acting president of Hillsdale College. Correspondence and other materials concerning the Free Will Baptists, Hillsdale College and its predecessor, Michigan Central College at Spring Arbor, with mention of Dunn's anti-slavery and Republican Party activities; also Civil War letters from his sons, Francis Wayland Dunn and Newell Ransom Dunn.

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Bentley Historical Library

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Michigan Central College (Spring Arbor, Mich.)

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Dunn, John, 1959-

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Dunn, Newell Ransom, 1841-1863.

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Student at Oberlin and Hillsdale Colleges, later school teacher in Wheatland, Michigan. From the description of Newell Ransom Dunn diary, February 1859-February 1860. (University of Michigan). WorldCat record id: 34421432 ...

Hillsdale College

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Blair, Austin, 1818-1894

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Republican governor of Michigan, 1861-1864. From the description of Austin Blair papers, 1861-1863 and 1882. (University of Michigan). WorldCat record id: 34422843 Governor of Michigan, 1861-64, state legislator and U.S. congressman, 1866-1870. From the description of Austin Blair papers, 1838-1921. (Detroit Public Library). WorldCat record id: 55628517 Blair was a Governor of Michigan, 1861-1864, a Michigan representative in Congress, 1867-1872, and a r...

United States. Army. Illinois Infantry Regiment, 64th (1861-1865)

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Dunn family.

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Dunn, Ransom, 1818-1900.

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Free Will Baptist minister and president of Hillsdale College. From the description of Ransom Dunn papers, 1796-1900. (University of Michigan). WorldCat record id: 34419813 Ransom Dunn was born in Bakersfield, Vermont, July 7, 1818. Around 1830, he joined the Free Will Baptist Church and soon thereafter decided to enter the ministry. He moved about frequently in this period. In 1837, he was in Ohio where he was ordained, then back east where he was minister at t...

Republican Party (Mich.)

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Dunn, Cyrena Emery, 1824-1896.

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Dunn, Francis Wayland, 1843-1874.

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Francis Wayland Dunn was born January 29, 1843 in Wayne, Astabula County, Ohio. Following graduation from Hillsdale College in 1862 Dunn enlisted in Company A, 64th Illinois Infantry. He later served in Company H, First Alabama Cavalry (Union) as sergeant major. After the war, Dunn taught at Hillsdale College. He also traveled extensively in the Middle East and much of Europe. He died December 13, 1873. From the guide to the Francis Wayland Dunn papers, 1856-1874, (Bentley Historical...

Free Will Baptists (1780?-1911)

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