Keen family letters 1859-1867 1862-1867 Keen family letters

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Keen family letters 1859-1867 1862-1867 Keen family letters

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This collection is made up of 74 letters and letter fragments that Sarah Augusta Keen and her family wrote to her brother William between 1859 and 1867. The letters are about their lives in Acushnet, Massachusetts, after William moved to San Francisco, California, in early 1862, and their views on the Civil War. Sarah A. Keen, William's most frequent correspondent, discussed her experiences as a schoolteacher in Lakeville, Massachusetts.

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White, Sarah Augusta Keen.

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Keen, Leonard L.

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Keen, William, 1839-1878

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Leonard Keen and Sarah Davis lived in Fairhaven, Massachusetts, in the mid-19th century, and later moved to Acushnet, where they lived during the Civil War. They had at least nine children: James F., Susan E., William Augustus (1839-1878), Sarah Augusta, Lydia Ann (1843-1862), Leonard, Jr., Amelia F., Charles F., and Mary E. William Augustus Keen moved to San Francisco, California, in the spring of 1862, and remained there for several years, though he later returned to Massachusetts...

Keen, Amelia.

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Keen, Sarah Davis.

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Keen, Charles F.

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Keen, Leonard L., Jr.

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