Papers : of Ione Gove Daniels, 1881-1899.

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Papers : of Ione Gove Daniels, 1881-1899.

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Daniels writes from several states (Virginia, Wisconsin, Nebraska, and Minnesota) to her friend Albert Kimsey Owen concerning her homesickness, the selling of Gunston Hall, death of her friends and family members, her daughter Frankie's 1886 wedding at Gunston Hall, her son Edward's attempts to get a job as a lawyer, her daughter Cleone, and her estrangement from and bitterness toward her geologist husband, Edward Daniels (1828-1916). She also writes about finishing a novel, and writing and publishing poems. Also, includes letters from Cleone, from her son Edward, and from Frankie to Owens; a biography of Ione Daniels and some of her poems and hymns.

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George Mason's Gunston Hall

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George Mason's Gunston Hall

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Gunston Hall (Fairfax County, Va.)

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Gunston Hall is an 18th-century Georgian mansion near the Potomac River in Mason Neck, Virginia, United States. Built between 1755 and 1759 as the main residence and headquarters of a 5,500-acre (22 km²) forced-labor farm, the house was the home of the United States Founding Father George Mason....

Daniels, Edward

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Ayers, Frankie A. Daniels.

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Daniels, Cleone.

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Daniels, Ione Gove, b. 1847.

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Owen, Albert Kimsey

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Albert Kimsey Owen (1848-1916) traveled to Mexico in 1873 on a surveying trip for the future Mexican Central Railroad and saw Topolobampo Bay, Sinaloa. Owen dreamed of a railroad linking the United States through Texas to this Mexican port and planned a cooperative colony to be founded on the rich agricultural land nearby. The Mexican government granted him permission to form the Texas, Topolobampo & Pacific Railway and Telegraph Company in 1881, and the first colonists began to arrive in 18...

Daniels, Ione Gove, 1847-1900.

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With her husband, owner of Gunston Hall, 1868-1891. From the description of Papers : of Ione Gove Daniels, 1881-1899. (Gunston Hall Plantation). WorldCat record id: 30471778 ...