Vashti Detwiler Garwood collection 1827-1990 1834-1896 Garwood, Vashti Detwiler collection

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Vashti Detwiler Garwood collection 1827-1990 1834-1896 Garwood, Vashti Detwiler collection

This collection contains correspondence, diaries, ephemera, photographs, and other material related to Vashti Detwiler Garwood, a schoolteacher and physician in Ohio, Massachusetts, Kansas, and Michigan. The collection documents her experiences teaching school in Ohio and Massachusetts, as well as her coursework at the Boston University School of Medicine. Also included are additional photographs of her family and a published history of the Novy-Garwood families.

0.5 linear feet

eng,

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SNAC Resource ID: 6392304

William L. Clements Library

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Boston University. School of Medicine

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Garwood, Angeline, 1805-1881

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Garwood, Spencer Willard, 1835-1927

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Garwood family.

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University of Michigan.

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Outside of museum holdings, no comprehensive survey and inventory of campus artwork had been attempted since 1937. With support from the Michigan Commission on Art in Public Places, 1,076 items were inventoried during 1988-1990. Additional inventory work was undertaken in 1997-1998 for risk management purposed, but generated little new information. From the description of Inventory of University of Michigan-owned art, 1988-1990, 1997-1998. (University of Michigan). WorldCat record id...

Berkey, W. H.

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United States. Army. Ohio Infantry Regiment, 132nd, 1864

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Cannon, Jemima.

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Garfield, James A. (James Abram), 1831-1881

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James Garfield, twentieth President of the United States, was born in Cuyahoga County, Ohio, in 1831. After embarking on an academic career, he joined the Ohio volunteer infantry regiment, and in 1863 was appointed Major General in the same regiment. He served as a member of the U. S. House of Representatives from 1863 to 1880, when he was elected President. His inauguration took place on March 4, 1881, but his term of office was unfortunately brought to an abrupt end with his assassination by C...

Garwood, Vashti Magdalen Detwiler, 1842-1918

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Cannon, Isaiah.

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Lambert, Mary E.

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Vashti Magdalen Detwiler was born in Urbana, Ohio, on February 23, 1842, the daughter of Christian Detwiler (1803-1854) and his wife, Isabella Criley (1809-1901). She taught school in Ohio from 1858 to 1863, and moved to North Adams, Massachusetts, in April 1864, where she lived with her sister and continued to teach. She became engaged to Spencer Willard Garwood (1835-1927) in 1863, and they married on September 20, 1866, despite temporarily breaking off their engagement in 1864. T...