Family record and memoir of M.J. Matthews.

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Family record and memoir of M.J. Matthews.

This collection consists of records of births, marriages, and deaths of the Rufus Matthews and Marcus J. Matthews families. The collection includes pictures, a brief autobiography of Marcus Matthews, including information on being a traveling salesman, a Free Mason, Civil War duty, and being in the Republican party; a paper on patriotism by M.J. Matthews; poems by M.J. Matthews; a leaflet entitled Light of truth tracts, what is spiritualism? by Hudson Tuttle (1892); recollections of Rufus Matthews; and a handwritten obituary for Charles Benton Flagg.

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SNAC Resource ID: 7434742

State Archive of Michigan

Related Entities

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Matthews, Rufus H. (Rufus Henry), 1915-2003

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Flagg, Charles Benton

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Matthews, Marcus C.

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Republican Party (U.S. : 1854- )

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The Republican Party is a national political party in the United States, and was founded in 1854. In the 1864 election, the party took the name National Union Party to allow the participation of Democrats. From the description of Republican Party tickets, 1864. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 496362231 From the guide to the Republican Party tickets, 1864, (L. Tom Perry Special Collections) ...

Matthews family.

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Tuttle, Hudson, 1836-1910

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