Owen Jones collection, ca. 1840-ca. 1920 (bulk 1863-1917).

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Owen Jones collection, ca. 1840-ca. 1920 (bulk 1863-1917).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/70958157

Diaries (1863-1887, 1918-1920), reflecting Jones's 100 days spent in the Civil War, serving with Company F, 171st Ohio Volunteers (partially on guard duty at Johnson Island Prison), building and carpentry work, deaths of relatives and friends, banking, farming, participation in church and community affairs, reunions of the Jones and Evans families and other Welsh Americans, social life, and the weather; political memorabilia, including handbill on the 1867 election of Rutherford B. Hayes as governor and clippings concerning the assassination of Abraham Lincoln; advertisements, clippings, photographs, and other enclosures from the diaries; materials relating to First National Bank, Newton Falls, Ohio and other local banks; deeds, contracts, certificates, and other documents of the Jones, Evans, and Davis families; pension papers; several artifacts; and records of G.A.R. Post #310, Newton Falls, of which Jones was last surviving member, including speeches made to the local Woman's Relief Corps.

3 boxes.

Mahoning Valley Historical Society, Arms Museum

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SNAC Resource ID: 8052343

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Jones, Sadie Evans

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Davis family.

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Evans family.

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United States. Army. Ohio Infantry Regiment, 171st (1864). Company F

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Woman's Relief Corps (U.S.)

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National organization formed in 1883 at the Denver Encampment of the Grand Army of the Republic, as an auxiliary to that organization and to continue to "care for the Veteran and his dependent ones and to perpetuate the memory of their heroic dead". As the number of Corps grew, each state elected its own governing body, subordinate to the national governing body. In addition to helping veterans, these women worked to get pension help for the nurses who served in the Civil War, founded a home for...

Johnson Island Prison

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Johnson Island, located in Sandusky, Ohio, operated as a federal prisoner of war depot, housing Confederate officers and other enlisted men captured in battle, from April 1862 to September 1865. From the guide to the Johnson Island Prison Autograph Albums, ., 1861-1865, (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection.) Union army prison in Ohio. From the description of Diagram, 1862. (Filson Historical Society, The). WorldCat...

Jones, Paul S.

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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...

Hayes, Rutherford Birchard, 1822-1893

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Rutherford B. Hayes was born in Delaware, Ohio, in 1822 and earned degrees from Kenyon College and Harvard Law School before starting a career as a lawyer in Cincinnati. Hayes served as a major general in the Ohio Volunteer Infantry during the Civil War and was elected to the U.S. Congress in 1864. Hayes then was elected Governor of Ohio and later served one term as President of the United States (1877-1881) before retiring to his home in Fremont, Ohio, where he died in 1893.President of the Uni...

McCreary, Alberta Jones

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Davis, James, 1845-1897

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Jones, John H., -1918

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Jones, Harry Owen, 1890-1918

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Jones family.

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Jones, Owen R.

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Soldier, farmer, and carpenter, of Milton Township (Mahoning County), Palmyra Township (Portage County), Newton Township (Trumbull County), and Youngstown, Ohio. From the description of Owen Jones collection, ca. 1840-ca. 1920 (bulk 1863-1917). (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 70958157 ...

Grand Army of the Republic. Post #310 (Newton Falls, Ohio)

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