Horatio P. Van Cleve and family papers, 1827-1970.

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Horatio P. Van Cleve and family papers, 1827-1970.

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Correspondence, genealogical and biographical data, diaries, financial records, clippings, and miscellany of Van Cleve, a military officer and early Minnesota settler, his wife Charlotte Ouisconsin Clark, and various family members. A large portion of the collection consists of family correspondence during Van Cleve's Civil War service as colonel (eventually general) with the 2nd Minnesota Infantry. Other materials include letters from Van Cleve at Fort Winnebago, Wisconsin (1834-1836); letters and compositions of Charlotte Clark at school in New Haven, Conn. (1834-1836); letters of their daughter Anna, married to New York journalist Mortimer Thomson (1850s); letters of their daughter Elizabeth in Honolulu (1860s); correspondence of their son Edward Mortimer Van Cleve, his two wives, and their families; papers of their grandson Horatio P. Van Cleve as a civil engineer and Minneapolis alderman (1893-1970); and Charlotte Van Cleve's reports as president of the Sisterhood of Bethany. There is information on life in southeast and northern Michigan (1830s-1850s), on the Winnebago Indian agency at Long Prairie, Minnesota (1850s), and in Saint Anthony, Minnesota (1860s-1870s).

13.6 cubic feet (14 boxes and 1 oversize folder).

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