Johnson-Hunt-Wilkeson genealogical papers, 1861-1962.

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Johnson-Hunt-Wilkeson genealogical papers, 1861-1962.

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Notes, correspondence, registers and clippings related to genealogical research on the Johnson and Wilkeson families; includes notes on Capt. Ebenezer Johnson (1760-1841), Elisha Johnson (1784-1866), Samuel Wilkeson (1781-1848) and Elizabeth Wilkeson Hamlin (1875-1951); descriptions of "The Cottage," Ebenezer Johnson's house on Delaware Ave., Buffalo; Elisha Johnson's "Hornby Lodge" at Portage, N.Y., and his "Mansion" at Tellico Plains, Tennessee; commissioning papers of Hugh M. Johnson (1842-1928), 1st Lt. in the 21st Regiment of New York State Volunteers during the Civil War; and a published version of Lt. John Wilkeson's last Civil War letters to family before dying at the Battle of Fair Oaks, Va.

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Buffalo History Museum, Research Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 7364183

Buffalo History Museum, Research Library

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Hamlin, Elizabeth (Elizabeth Frye Wilkeson), 1875-1951.

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Wilkeson, Samuel, 1781-1848

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Judge Samuel Wilkeson was involved in shipping and the manufacture of stoves and engines. He was the first judge of Erie County, an early mayor of Buffalo (1836), and a representative in the State Assembly and Senate. He was instrumental in the construction of Buffalo Harbor and the choice of Buffalo as the western terminus of the Erie Canal, and he was active in the abolitionist movement as a member of the American Colonization Society. From the description of Samuel Wilkeson papers...

Johnson, Tellico, 1846-1918.

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United States. Army. New York Infantry Regiment, 21st (1861-1863)

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Regiment organized at Elmira, N.Y., 20 May 1861, from the 65th and 74th Militia. Men were recruited principally from Erie County. The regiment left the state on 18 June 1861, and saw service in Maryland and Virginia, including McDowell's advance on Richmond, Pope's Campaign, Bull Run, and Antietam. The regiment was mustered out 18 May 1863. From the description of Regimental descriptive book, 1861-1863. (Buffalo History Museum). WorldCat record id: 53157394 Organized at Buff...

Johnson, Ebenezer, 1760-1841.

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United States. Army. New York Infantry Regiment, 100th (1862-1965)

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Johnson, Hugh M., 1842-1928.

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Johnson, Elisha, 1785-1866

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Hunt, Edith Johnson, b. 1875.

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