Loretta Bingham collection, 1787-1976.

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Bingham, Loretta,. Loretta Bingham collection, 1787-1976.

Loretta Bingham collection, 1787-1976.

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Church membership transfer letter in German by a Mennonite Church elder for Cornelius Buller who was trying to escape conscription into the Russian Army by emigrating to America from Volhynia, Russia, 1874 (translation provided). Letter to Nathan Buller, Battle Creek, Michigan, 1909, from his uncle, J.C. Janz, a miner, advising him not to come to Arizona because of the poor economic situation. Photocopy of the Civil War diary of Charles S. Clark, Michigan 20th Infantry, Company C, 1863. Clark, of Barry County, Michigan served as a hospital attendant. Photocopies of military papers and genealogical information about Charles S. Clark. Obituary for his brother, Austin Wesley Clark, Battle Creek, Michigan, ca. 1939, who served with the Michigan 6th Cavalry, Company K, during the Civil War. Notebook compiled by Loretta B. Bingham, ca. 1976, containing Bible records and tombstone inscriptions about Benedict-Kinne-Chapel-Fralick, Shafer-Powers-Haas, Tewilliger-Gifford-Hickey, Morris-Jeffs-Reed, and Ridgeway families of Eaton, Jackson, Barry, Kalamazoo, and Calhoun Counties, Michigan. Wilkes County, North Carolina, material includes will books, 1778-1848; 1782 tax list; 1786 census.

9 folders.

Western Michigan University, Dwight B. Waldo Library