Augustus Ward Loomis papers, 1803-1897.

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Augustus Ward Loomis papers, 1803-1897.

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Collection includes letters to relatives in Cazenovia, New York, from Augustus Ward Loomis and his wife, Mary Ann, Presbyterian missionaries to Chekiang Province, China (1845-1849), Indian Territory (1852), and to the Chinese in San Francisco (1865-1867). These letters are mainly concerned with the Loomis' religious views and activities, their impressions of the places to which they traveled, in particular Hong Kong, Canton, Chusan, and Ningpo, China; Chicago and Galesburg, Illinois; St. Charles, Missouri; Little Rock, Arkansas; and Cowetah and Tullahassee, Oklahoma; and with their evaluation of the Chinese and the Creek and Cherokee Indians. They also mention such events and issues as the defeat of Winfield Scott in the presidential election of 1852 and the election of Gerrit Smith to Congress in the same year, the volume of the migration to California and Oregon (1852-1853), the railroad fever in St. Louis (1853), the question of slavery and whether it was right to buy slaves and allow them to work for their freedom, the assassination of Lincoln, and the capture of Jefferson Davis. Also included are papers (1803-1849) of Ward's father, Seba Loomis, among them deeds for lands in Coventry, Connecticut, and Cazenovia, New York; a survey of his farm in Road Township, Madison County, New York; debtors' writs from Tolland County, Connecticut; a blacksmith's apprenticeship indenture from Windham County, Connecticut; and his will.

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