Letter : Fort Dummer, [Vt.], to Jonathan Ashley, Deerfield, [Mass.], 1746 June 13.

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The Newberry was founded on July 1, 1887 and opened for business on September 6 of that year. The Newberry’s establishment came about because of a contingent provision in the will of Chicago businessman Walter L. Newberry (1804-68), which left what later amounted to approximately $2.2 million for the foundation of a “free, public” library on the north side of the Chicago River, if his two children died without issue. After the deaths of Mr. Newberry’s daughters and then, in 1885, of his widow, t...

Edward E. Ayer Manuscript Collection (Newberry Library)

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Ashley, Jonathan, 1712-1780

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Jonathan Ashley, the son of Jonathan and Abigail (Stebbins) Ashley was born in Westfield, Mass., Nov. 11, 1712. He graduated from Yale College in 1730, where he studied theology. Jonathan was a teacher in Suffield, Conn., until Nov. 8, 1732, when he was ordained as pastor of the Congregational Church in Deerfield. In 1736 he married Dorothy Williams, whose father was also a minister. Ashley was socially prominent in Deerfield, as a minister ranked high in the town hierarchy. He supplemented his ...

Ashley, Joseph, 1709-1797.

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Congregational clergyman. A graduate of Yale College, Joseph Ashley in 1736 assumed a pastorship in Arlington (later named Winchester) in southwestern New Hampshire (now Vermont). In 1746, during King George's War, the settlement was broken up by the Indians, but Ashley was not dismissed from his post until 1747. That year he was appointed to a ministry in Sunderland, Mass., where he remained until his death in 1797. From the description of Letter : Fort Dumm...