Joseph Hewitt and Lydia Hewitt Bennison papers [microform], 1848-1890.

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Joseph Hewitt and Lydia Hewitt Bennison papers [microform], 1848-1890.

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Papers of an itinerant minister of the Primitive Methodist Connexion in southwestern Wisconsin, including correspondence, ministerial papers, and diaries, 1848-1885, recording his travels, statistics on the churches he served, discussions of doctrine and other ministers, and observations on the Civil War and Lincoln's assassination; and diaries of his daughter Lydia, 1880-1885, recording daily activities and her reactions to the progressive consumption which eventually caused her death.

1 reel of microfilm (35mm)

Wisconsin Historical Society, Newspaper Project

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Wisconsin Historical Society, Newspaper Project

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