Ferry family (William Montague Ferry) papers, 1822-1905.

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Ferry family (William Montague Ferry) papers, 1822-1905.

1822-1905

Letters from Ferry and his wife Amanda White Ferry describing their trip from Ashfield, Massachusetts, to Mackinac Island and their missionary work among the Indians; also letterbook, 1823-1837, of personal correspondence; four letters to Hannah White; letter, 1865 to the Ferry children; sermons and address by Ferry; letter, 1862-1901, of Colonel William M. Ferry, University of Michigan regent, particularly to his wife and other relatives while serving in the Fourteenth Michigan Infantry during the. Civil War; speeches, letters from contemporary politicians to Thomas White Ferry, lumberman and U.S. Senator, and two scrapbooks of newspaper clippings on the Ferry family. Correspondents include: Susan B. Anthony, Henry P. Baldwin, Zachariah Chandler, Schuyler Colfax, William M. Evarts, Hamilton Fish, Rutherford B. Hayes, Whitelaw Reid, and Elizabeth Cady Stanton.

.8 linear ft. and 1 oversize folder.

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