Wakefield Family Collection: 1863-1921 1846-1940 1863-1910

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Wakefield Family Collection: 1863-1921 1846-1940 1863-1910

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This is a collection of papers belonging to Edmund Burritt Wakefield, Western Reserve Eclectic Institute alumnus, Civil War soldier, professor, and surveyor.

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Hiram College

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Lindsay, Vachel, 1879-1931

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Nicholas Vachel Lindsay was born in Springfield, IL. He studied in Ohio, Chicago, and New York and acquired a reputation as a poet and lecturer. Lindsay became famous for his walk from Springfield, IL to New Mexico in 1912, and for an unusual method of writing poetry. In 1924 he arrived in Spokane where he worked as a columnist for the "Spokesman-Review". He returned to Springfield in 1929, and at the time of his death was a major figure in American poetry. From the description of Co...

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Sheldon, Martha (Mattie)

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Wakefield, Olive Lindsay

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Wakefield, E. B. (Edmund Burritt)

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Wakefield was born in Greensburg, Ohio on August 27, 1846. He was the son of Edwin and Mary Payne (Churchill) Wakefield. His father was an early Disciples of Christ minister. Wakefield entered the Western Reserve Eclectic Institute (as Hiram College was then known) in 1863 where he studied under Harvey W. Everest, J. H. Rhodes and Almeda Booth. At the close of the 1863-1864 school year, 18 year old E. B. Wakefield enlisted in the Army as a private in Co. G 177th Ohio Infantry and se...

Hayden, F. V. (Ferdinand Vandeveer), 1829-1887

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Geologist who began his career as a teacher in Oberlin, Ohio. From the description of Ferdinand V. Hayden papers, 1846-1865. (Rhinelander District Library). WorldCat record id: 18376030 Surveyor and geologist. From the description of Hayden, F. V. (Ferdinand Vandeveer), 1829-1887 (U.S. National Archives and Records Administration). naId: 10570213 F. V. Hayden (1829-1887) was a physician turned geologist, explorer, and naturalist; originally of Westfield,...

Wakefield, Cornelia

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