Papers, 1772-1954 (bulk 1814-1952).

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Papers, 1772-1954 (bulk 1814-1952).

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Letters and papers of Judge Samuel Wilkeson concerning family matters, personal business, the Erie Canal, Buffalo harbor, politics and the American Colonization Society, 1814-1848; and letters and financial, legal and personal papers of his sons John, Samuel, Jr., and William, grandsons John W. and Samuel H., granddaughter Louise, and great- granddaughters Elizabeth Wilkeson Hamlin and Margaret W. Burnett, as well as papers of William and Frederick Wilkes. Includes papers of John Wilkeson as consul to Turk's Island, 1842-1844; land records of Samuel Wilkeson, Jr. in Galena, Ill., 1835; Union College papers of John W. Wilkeson, 1835-1880; Civil War military papers and letters; biographical and genealogical notes; and typed trnascripts of many original papers in the collection.

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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...

Wilkeson, Samuel, 1817-1889

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Union college Schenectady, N.Y.

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Wilkeson family.

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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 Papers, 1772-1954 (bul...

Wilkeson, John, 1806-1894.

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Born 1806 in Poland, Ohio. Elder son of Judge Samuel Wilkeson. Owned iron companies in Ohio and Pennsylvania; built and operated the Wilkeson elevator in Buffalo; appointed consul to Turk's Island in 1842 by President John Tyler. He married Maria Louisa Wilkes of Portsmouth, England, in 1832. They had one daughter and two sons. Both sons fought in the Civil War; the elder son, John Wilkes Wilkeson, was killed in the Battle of Seven Pines, Va. in 1862. John Wilkeson died in Buffalo in 1894. ...

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

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Wilkeson, John Wilkes, 1834-1862.

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Fillmore, Caroline C. (Caroline Carmichael McIntosh), 1813- 1881.

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Wilkes family.

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United States. Army. New York Cavalry Regiment, 100th (1862-1865). Company K.

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American colonization society

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The American Colonization Society was founded in 1817 in Washington, D.C. for the purpose of transporting freeborn and emancipated American blacks to Africa and helping them start a new life there. From the description of List of emigrants for Liberia, 1867 Nov. 17. (The South Carolina Historical Society). WorldCat record id: 32144821 The American Colonization Society was an organization dedicated to transporting freeborn blacks and emancipated slaves to Africa, to what is n...

Wilkeson, Samuel H. (Samuel Henry), 1836-1915.

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Burnett, Margaret W. (Margaret Louise Wilkeson)

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