Masten family papers 1799-1899 Masten family papers

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Masten family papers 1799-1899 Masten family papers

The Masten family papers contain correspondence documenting the everyday lives of the Hastings and Masten families in 19th-century New York, as well as the Civil War service and subsequent endeavors of Henry Masten in Grandville, Michigan.

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SNAC Resource ID: 6391685

William L. Clements Library

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United States. Army New York Infantry Regiment, 90th.

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Hastings, Nathan.

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Beal, George Lafayette, 1825-1896

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Beal was born in Norway, Maine. His father was one of the founders of the town. Beal studied at the Westbrook Seminary and was very interested military affairs, eventually being elected Captain of the local militia unit known as the Norway Light Infantry, a position he held at the beginning of the war. He was employed as an agent of the Canadian Express Company. Beal was the first man in Oxford County to enlist, and his militia unit became Company "G" of the First Maine Infantry Regiment, a t...

Independent Order of Good Templars

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Part of a world-wide temperance movement, the International Order of Good Templars was formed in 1851, with the West Australian branch being established in approximately 1881. From the description of Records. 1896-1955. (Libraries Australia). WorldCat record id: 221857334 ...

Masten, Henry.

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Pennell, Caroline Hastings.

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Pennell, Charles

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United States Christian Commission

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Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865

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Abraham Lincoln (born February 12, 1809, Sinking Spring Farm near Hodgenville, Kentucky-died April 15, 1865, Washington, D.C.) was the sixteenth President of the United States from 1861 until his death by assassination. He was the son of a Kentucky frontiersman, Thomas Lincoln, and Nancy Hanks. In 1816, Lincoln moved to Pigeon Creek, Indiana, where he worked on his family's farm. Following his mother's death two years later, he continued working on farms until moving with his father to New Sa...

Masten family

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Nancy Law Hastings was born September 20, 1796, to Jonas Hastings and Nancy Emerson in Warwick, Massachusetts. The Hastings’ other children included Caroline (Pennell), Samuel, Oliver, and two girls that died in infancy. In November 1815, Nancy married Ephraim Masten (1786-1840) of Sutton, New Hampshire, and in 1819, they settled on a farm in Ridgeway, New York. They had 11 children, the youngest of whom was Henry Masten, born September 28, 1840. During the Civil War, He...

Masten, Ephraim.

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Hastings, Nancy.

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