Mudd family papers, 1860-2002.

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Mudd family papers, 1860-2002.

Boxes 1 -3. notes, booklists, photographs, postcards, newspaper clippings, etc. that are inserts to the books in the Mudd Collection at the Hoyt Library -- Box 4. photographs of Dr. Richard Mudd ; memory card from Richard Mudd's death ; thank you note from the Mudd family to Hoyt Library ; holiday greetings family newsletter ; Surratt House & Tavern pamphlet ; papers relating to the Saginaw Genealogical Society ; Mudd family newsletter, fall 1992 ; Dr. Samuel Mudd newsletter, Jan/Feb 1994 ; Lincoln Group of Florida newsletter, September 1993 ; photocopy of letter from President Ronald Reagan regarding the pardon of Dr. Samuel Mudd ; article "on behalf of Dr. Samuel A. Mudd" by George McNamara ; photos and papers relating to the donation of the Mudd Collection to Hoyt Library ; booklist of the Mudd Collection ; list of Lincoln assassination files and private book collection of Dr. Richard Mudd ; special collections at Georgetown: a descriptive catalog, 1989.

2 linear ft.

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SNAC Resource ID: 7793637

Public Libraries of Saginaw

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Mudd, Samuel Alexander, 1833-1883

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Physician who lived with his wife and children on a farm near Bryantown, Maryland at the time of President Lincoln's assassination and treated John Wilkes Booth after the murder. He was convicted of conspiring with the killers because he had set Booth's broken leg during the assassin's flight. While on Tortugas Island he worked as the prison doctor during the yellow fever epidemic. President Andrew Johnson pardoned him in 1869, and in 1979 a presidential proclamation cleared his name. He was ele...

Mudd, Richard Dyer, 1901-2002

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Grandson of Dr. Samuel Mudd who was implicated in the assassination of Abraham Lincoln. From the description of Oral history interview, 1972. (Maryland Historical Society). WorldCat record id: 32818965 ...

Mudd family.

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Richard Mudd worked for 37 years as an industrial physician and surgeon for General Motors Corporation. He was a well known historian from Saginaw, Michigan. He spent many years trying to clear the name of Dr. Samuel Mudd, his grandfather, in the Lincoln assassination conspiracy. From the description of Mudd family papers, 1860-2002. (Public Libraries of Saginaw). WorldCat record id: 61191417 ...

Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865

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Abraham Lincoln (born February 12, 1809, Sinking Spring Farm near Hodgenville, Kentucky-died April 15, 1865, Washington, D.C.) was the sixteenth President of the United States from 1861 until his death by assassination. He was the son of a Kentucky frontiersman, Thomas Lincoln, and Nancy Hanks. In 1816, Lincoln moved to Pigeon Creek, Indiana, where he worked on his family's farm. Following his mother's death two years later, he continued working on farms until moving with his father to New Sa...