Papers, 1842-1969.

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Papers, 1842-1969.

Miscellaneous letters of the Kennedy, Mumford, Hewlett, and Mann families, mainly from Michigan, containing some references to state political matters and the Civil War. Letters and papers of Willoughby O'Donoughue, surgeon of the 1st Michigan Regiment, Engineers and Mechanics, contain enlistment and discharge papers, mustering-out lists, and papers concerning the Grand Army of the Republic. Papers of Frederick Blackmar Mumford, dean of the University of Missouri College of Agriculture, contain family letters, clippings, pictures, legal papers, diplomas and special awards, a diary, 1945, and a scrapbook tracing Mumford's career, 1917-1938.

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Kennedy family.

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Hollyday, Frederic B. M.

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Mumford family.

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University of Missouri.

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O'Donoughue, Willoughby.

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Mann family.

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