Hoxie-Banbury family papers, 1836-1902.

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Hoxie-Banbury family papers, 1836-1902.

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This collection includes family correspondence, receipts and financial records; various Johnson County (Iowa) land records; tax receipts and other records for property in Tama, Poweshiek and Benton counties; scrapbooks of newspaper clippings; Thomas Banbury Civil War commissions and other military papers; a ledger from the Defensive Mercantile Association in Iowa City (1868-1869); a journal kept by Richard Hoxie during a Corps of Engineers project in the southwest (1873); a copy of N. Whittock's The Youth's New London Self-Instructing Drawing Book in Colours (London, 1836); poems and a published songbook written by Vinnie Ream; four letters written by George Yewell sent to Jane ("Auntie") or Thomas Banbury (1853-1893); and a copy of a letter written by Jane Kirkwood, the widow of Governor Kirkwood, to Vinnie Ream regarding the sculpting of a statue honoring Gov. Kirkwood to be placed in Washington, D.C.

.5 linear ft. (1 box containing 12 folders and 4 volumes)

Iowa State Historical Society

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SNAC Resource ID: 7789905

Iowa State Historical Society

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There are 8 Entities related to this resource.

Banbury, Jane Hoxie Robinson, 1815-1898.

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Ream, Vinnie, 1847-1914

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Sculptor; Washington, D.C. Myers was a Congressman. From the description of Letters to Leonard Myers, 1872-1875. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122515436 American sculptor and composer. From the description of Letter : to unidentified recipient, [18--?] (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 22773764 Sculptor of the statue of Abraham Lincoln in the U.S. Capitol rotunda. From the description of Vinnie Ream letter : Washington, D.C., to Chas. A. Clarke...

Banbury, Thomas M., 1816-1883.

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Yewell, George Henry, 1830-1923

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Artist. From the description of Papers of George Henry Yewell, 1847-1919. (University of Iowa Libraries). WorldCat record id: 233106842 Portrait painter, genre painter, and etcher; Iowa City, New York City, and Lake George, N.Y. Lived in Rome 1856-1878. From the description of George Henry Yewell papers, 1847-1973. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 81380431 ...

Banbury family.

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Hoxie, R. L. (Richard Leveridge), 1844-1930

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Richard Leveridge Hoxie (1844-1930) served in the Civil War and graduated from West Point in 1868. He served with George Montague Wheeler during his 1872-1873 field sessions. In 1874, he was promoted to Chief Engineer of the District of Columbia under the Temporary Board of Commissioners, and became Assistant to the Engineer Commissioner of the District in 1878. He retired as a Brigadier General in 1908. From the description of The Richard Leveridge Hoxie notebooks. 1872-1873. (Unive...

Hoxie family.

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Jane Hoxie Robinson came to Iowa City in 1842 with her husband, James Robinson. On September 27, 1852 she married Thomas Banbury. Her parents, Ichabod (?) and Electa Hoxie were living in Iowa City after 1850. Richard Hoxie, son of her brother Joseph who was living in New York, came to live with Jane around 1858. Richard Hoxie was a West Point graduate (1868) and served in the Army until 1908. In 1878 he married Vinnie Ream. The Hoxies used the Banbury home at 310 South Lucas in Iowa City as a su...

Defensive Mercantile Association (Iowa City, Iowa).

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