Jay Monaghan Collection, [ca. 1840s-1980] (bulk 1930s-1970s)

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Jay Monaghan Collection, [ca. 1840s-1980] (bulk 1930s-1970s)

The collection contains appointment books, biographical, personal and family files, correspondence, research files, scrapbooks, speeches and lectures, writings (including ms drafts), photographs and illustrations of Jay Monaghan, a Lincoln, Civil War, and western history scholar. Monaghan also played a major role in developing the William Wyles Collection at the UCSB Libraries.

24.5 linear ft. (47 document boxes, 4 records containers, and 5 oversize boxes)

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Monaghan, Jay, 1891-1980

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Author, historian, teacher. Writing from Santa Barbara, Calif. where he was consultant to the Wyles Collection, UCSB Library. From the description of Letters to Caroline Bancroft, 1966 June 21 & Oct. 24. (Denver Public Library). WorldCat record id: 19018455 The following biographical sketch was derived from: Donald C. Davidson, "James Jay Monaghan IV, 1891-1980; Mildred Eversole Monaghan, 1902-1980" in Soundings: Collections of the University Library (UCSB),...

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...