Lyman Warren Ayer papers, 1862-1961 (bulk 1862-1864).

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Lyman Warren Ayer papers, 1862-1961 (bulk 1862-1864).

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Letters (1862-1864, 1875, 1880), research notes (1961), and biographical information on the son of Minnesota missionaries Frederick and Elizabeth Taylor Ayer, who worked variously as a teacher, fur trader, and timber cruiser, and who was a veteran of the Second Battery of Minnesota Light Artillery during the Civil War.

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Minnesota Historical Society, Division of Archives and Manuscripts

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United States. Army. Minnesota Light Artillery Battery, 2nd (1862-1865).

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Lemons, William E.

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Ayer, Elizabeth Taylor, 1803-1898

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Elizabeth Taylor Ayer was born in Massachusetts in 1803. FRederick Ayer was born in Stockbridge, Massachusetts that same year. Elizabeth went to Mackinac, Michigan in 1828 as a missionary teacher among Ojibwe Indians. She was there married to missionary Frederick Ayer in 1831 and the two traveled in 1832 to Sandy Lake, Minnesota, where they opened a school for the Ojibwe, the first such school opened in what later became Minnesota. They went on to open another such school at Pokegama, Minnesota,...

Ayer, Lyman Warren, [1834?]-1920.

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