Francis Presley Wilson family photograph collection, 1870-1926.

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Francis Presley Wilson family photograph collection, 1870-1926.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/335292004

This collection consists of photographs, correspondence and documents pertaining to four generations of Francis Presley Wilson's family. The bulk of the collection is photographs. The photos depict the house Frances Presley Wilson built with her husband in Lebanon, Illinois, family members at different ages, including Electra Wilson, Edward Presley Wilson, Mabrey H. Presley, Sarah E. Presley, Ellen Wilson Yoke, and Mrs. R.W. Watson. The correspondence is between family members is personal in nature. There is also some newspaper clippings, financial documents, and a souvenir pamphlet of a visit Theodore Roosevelt made to Camp Lincoln, Illinois in 1901 when he was vice president.

1.00 boxes.

Southern Illinois University, Morris Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 7351023

Southern Illinois University, Morris Library

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Presley, Mabrey H.

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Presley, Sarah E.

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Watson, R. W.

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Yoke, Ellen Wilson

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Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

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Roosevelt, 26th U.S. president, served 1901-1909. From the description of DS, 1904 March 1. : Washington, D.C. Homestead Certificate. (Copley Press, J S Copley Library). WorldCat record id: 15210791 26th president of the United States, 1901-1909. From the description of Theodore Roosevelt letters, 1917, 1918. (Buffalo History Museum). WorldCat record id: 213408920 Roosevelt was then Governor of New York. Chapman was one of the founders of the New York St...

Presley, Edward

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Wilson, Edward Presley.

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Wilson, Electra

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Wilson, Edwin H.

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Edwin H. Wilson was born August 23, 1898, in Woodhaven New York. He earned a bachelor's degree in business administration from Boston University in 1922, and graduated from the Meadville Theological School in 1924. He became an ordained Unitarian minister in 1926, and for the next six decades served congregations in Dayton, Ohio; Schenectady, New York; Chicago, Illinois; Yellow Springs, Ohio; Salt Lake City, Utah; and Cocoa Beach, Florida. Wilson had a lifelong interest in religious humanism. He...

Wilson, Francis Presley.

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Francis Presley Wilson was the sister of Electra Presley Sweet, and they were the only children of Mabrey H. Presley and Sarah Elizabeth Presley. Wilson married and moved with her husband to Lebanon, Illinois and built a house "Fair Oaks." The couple had two children, Edward Presley Wilson, and Electra Wilson Yoke. From the description of Francis Presley Wilson family photograph collection, 1870-1926. (Southern Illinois University). WorldCat record id: 335292004 ...