Ada Remington and Remington family collection, 1858-ca. 1979.

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Ada Remington and Remington family collection, 1858-ca. 1979.

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The Ada Remington and Remington Family Collection contains a variety of documents relating to abolitionist John Brown's legacy, particularly celebrating his achievements and reconstructing his log house. The records were created by Ada Remington and several other descendants of John Brown's family. Records include histories and reminiscences of the Kansas border wars and the Battle of Osawatomie by Emma Florella Adair Remington; records from a settlers' picnic honoring Charles C. Cuttler's birthday near Rantoul, Kan.; correspondence from John R. Brown to Samuel Lyle Adair dated 1865; military records relating to Major J. B. Remington; correspondence and papers of Chester Ward, a descendant of John Brown's father, Owen Brown, celebrating John Brown's legacy; correspondence of Ada Remington regarding John Brown's cabin, Osawatomie history, Brown's grave near Lake Placid, N.Y., and celebrating Brown's legacy. Other records document Brown family reunions.

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Remington, Ada Marian, 1879-1961.

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Adair, Samuel Lyle, 1811-1898.

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Samuel Adair: Congregational missionary, minister, Fort Leavenworth (Kan.) hospital chaplain. Of Ohio; Dundee, Mich.; Osawatomie, Kan. Samuel Lyle Adair and Florella (Brown) Adair were born in Ohio and educated at Oberlin College of Ohio. He was a Congregational minister as well as a school principal in Ohio and Michigan. They had 7 children but only 2 survived to adulthood. Samuel was supported as a missionary to the Kansas frontier by the American Missionary Associatio...

Remington family.

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Remington, Jeremiah Benjamin, 1838-1912.

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Remington, Emma Adair (Emma Florilla Adair), 1847-1924.

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Brown, John, 1800-1859

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John Brown (May 9, 1800, Torrington, Connecticut – December 2, 1859, Charles Town, Virginia) was born in Connecticut in 1800 before migrating with his family at an early age to the Connecticut Western Reserve. He failed at several business ventures and land speculations before devoting his life to the abolition of slavery. Brown was executed in 1859 following his failed attempt to incite a slave rebellion at Harper's Ferry, Virginia. Edwin Coppoc, a native of Salem, Ohio, joined Brown in his rai...

Adair, Emma Florella, 1848-1924.

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