Nathan M. Thomas papers, 1818-1889.

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Nathan M. Thomas papers, 1818-1889.

Correspondence of Thomas, his wife Pamela S. Brown Thomas, his children Ella, Malcolm, and Stanton, and relatives, friends, public leaders, abolitionists, and publishers, dealing largely with family affairs, land transactions, medical discoveries, woman suffrage, the Liberty Party, and anti-slavery activities; letters of Stanton B. Thomas while a student at the University of Michigan (1859-1864); Civil War letters of S.B. Thayer, medical director of the Merrill Horse Regiment; also manuscript. Addresses, essays and other papers; a manuscript autobiography of Thomas, and three account books, 1832-1879. Correspondents include: James G. Birney, Erastus Hussey, Lucius Lyon, S.B. Thayer, Jesse Thomas (father of Nathan), Jesse Thomas (brother of Nathan), Jonathan Thomas, Seymour B. Treadwell.

2 linear ft. and 1 outsize v.

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SNAC Resource ID: 7359524

Bentley Historical Library

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Lyon, Lucius, 1800-1851

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U.S. senator and representative of Michigan and surveyor. From the description of Letters of Lucius Lyon, 1833-1836. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 79454137 Surveyor, congressman, U.S. Senator. From the description of Lucius Lyon letters, 1830, 1831 and 1834. (University of Michigan). WorldCat record id: 34420826 Lyon (1800-1851) came to Detroit from Vt. in 1822 and was appointed Surveyor General Deputy in the territory northwest of the Ohio. He served i...

Thomas, Nathan T., 1809-1893

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Quaker abolitionist and physician in Mt. Pleasant, Ohio, and Schoolcraft, Michigan. From the description of Nathan M. Thomas papers, 1818-1889. (University of Michigan). WorldCat record id: 79982293 From the description of Nathan M. Thomas papers, 1818-1889. (University of Michigan). WorldCat record id: 34418894 Nathan M. Thomas was born at Mount Pleasant, Jefferson Co., Ohio, on January 2, 1803, the son of Jesse and Avis (Stanton) Thomas, who were devo...

University of Michigan.

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Outside of museum holdings, no comprehensive survey and inventory of campus artwork had been attempted since 1937. With support from the Michigan Commission on Art in Public Places, 1,076 items were inventoried during 1988-1990. Additional inventory work was undertaken in 1997-1998 for risk management purposed, but generated little new information. From the description of Inventory of University of Michigan-owned art, 1988-1990, 1997-1998. (University of Michigan). WorldCat record id...

Birney, James Gillespie, 1792-1857

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Biographical Note: James G. Birney was an attorney, an abolitionist writer and publisher. He was born in Kentucky in 1784 to a wealthy, slaveholding family, but he abandoned a successful law practice to become an agent for abolitionism. Birney hoped to accomplish the abolition of slavery through political means and through the publication of books, pamphlets, and newspapers. He was the Liberty Party's unanimous presidential nominee in 1840 and 1844. James G. Birney died in 1853. From...

Thomas, Stanton Brown.

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Thayer, S. B.

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Thomas, Jesse O.

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Hussey, Erastus.

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United States. Army. Missouri Cavalry Regiment, 2nd (1861-1865)

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Thomas, Jonathan.

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Treadwell, S. B. (Seymour Boughton), 1795-1867

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Editor of the Michigan Freeman. From the description of Seymour boughton Treadwell papers, 1818-1869 and undated. (University of Michigan). WorldCat record id: 34422361 From the description of Seymour Boughton Treadwell papers, 1818-1869 and undated. (University of Michigan). WorldCat record id: 81274403 ...

Liberty Party (U.S.)

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