Asa Earl Martin collection of Pennsylvania historical documents, and Civil War letters, 1709-1962.

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Asa Earl Martin collection of Pennsylvania historical documents, and Civil War letters, 1709-1962.

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The Asa Martin collection includes primarily land ownership documents from thirteen central Pennsylvania counties between 1775 and 1837. Additional materials of interest include items from John Wunderlich (also Wonderlich or Wonderly) concerning legal guardianship of orphans in Cumberland County after 1811. Also included are: 21 Civil War letters from various soldiers; a facsimile set of courtship letters by Alexander Farnsley to Mary Elizabeth Thurman ("Miss Bettie") of Kentucky dated 1856 to 1860; and an 1811 pass written by Anne Snowden for a former slave woman to travel unmolested from Prince George County, Maryland, to Pennsylvania. Some of the land documents are filed separately due to poor condition.

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Pennsylvania State University Libraries

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SNAC Resource ID: 7553877

Pennsylvania State University Libraries

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Wunderlich, John

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Martin, Asa Earl, 1885-

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Asa Earl Martin (1885-1962) taught high school in Kansas before completing a master's degree at William Jewell College and doctoral work at Cornell. He came to Penn State in 1915 and soon appointed Head of the Department of History. In 1931, he was awarded the Outstanding Work in Research medal by the university. In 1928 he first published History of the United States from 1783 to 1865, revising it through the 1940s, retiring in 1949. In addition to his many articles, he published the following ...

Farnsley, Alexander P...

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Alexander Farnsley was a farmer in the vicinity of Louisville, Ky. From the description of Alexander Farnsley Letters, 1856-1860 (Wake Forest University - ZSR Library). WorldCat record id: 59882493 ...