Fulton County Museum & Archives collection, 1830-present.

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Fulton County Museum & Archives collection, 1830-present.

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Correspondence, diaries, newspaper clippings, books, photographs and negatives, ledgers, memorabilia, railroad documents, and other materials, reflecting the history of Fulton County, Ohio. Includes the collection of Civil War and personal memorabilia of Wauseon native, Edwin Lewis Hayes, fourth cousin to President Rutherford B. Hayes, including correspondence, diaries, reminiscences of his daughter Hortensia Hayes, pistols and swords, including presentation sword, commissioned by the town of Wauseon in the summer of 1862 from Tiffany & Co., New York, presented by the mayor to Hayes who was leaving his post as city councilman and businessman to recruit Fulton County men to form the 100th Volunteer Infantry, and other materials. This regiment fought throughout the South and were even held as prisoners of war at Libby Prison during the war. Also includes letter (1860 Jan. 8) of Samuel Bell Finney, a doctor from Delta, Ohio, with the lyrics to two abolition songs entitled The African's Complaint and Give the Bible to the Slave. Bell joined the 166th Ohio Regiment and ended up as one of the body guards to President Abraham Lincoln. After the war he moved to Fulton County to pursue the manufacture of herbal remedies and other medicines, eventually shipping them throughout the world.

40 linear ft.

Fulton County Museum & Archives

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