Vallandigham collection, 1933-1977 (bulk 1933-1942).

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Vallandigham collection, 1933-1977 (bulk 1933-1942).

This collection contains Earl Eastwood's research notes on the political career of Clement L. Vallandigham, and the outline and two chapters of a book about him. Other items written by Eastwood are also present, including a typed manuscript on religious education.

.5 cubic ft.

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SNAC Resource ID: 6961955

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Vallandigham, Clement Laird, 1820-1871

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Clement Laird Vallandigham was born July 29, 1820, in New Lisbon, Ohio (now Lisbon, Ohio), to Clement and Rebecca Laird Vallandigham. His father, a Presbyterian minister, educated his son at home. In 1841, Vallandigham had a dispute with the college president at Jefferson College in Canonsburg, Pennsylvania. He was honorably dismissed, but he never received a degree. Edwin M. Stanton, the future Secretary of War under President Lincoln, was Vallandigham's close friend before the Civil War....

Eastwood, Earl.

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Biographical note: Earl Eastwood graduated from Transylvania University in Lexington, Kentucky in 1919, and was an instructor in education from 1921 to 1923. He served on the board of curators from 1943 to 1954. In 1939 he became news editor of the DAYTON JOURNAL HERALD. Clement Vallandigham held a similar position on the DAYTON JOURNAL in the 1840s. Clement Laird Vallandigham is best known for his oppostition to the Civil War. A democrat from Ohio, Vallandigham had serv...