Rufus Saxton correspondence, 1862-1889.

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Rufus Saxton correspondence, 1862-1889.

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ALS (1862 October 22) written by Saxton to the Board of Home Missions requesting the assignment of a military chaplain; ALS (1863 June 18) to George Whipple of the American Missionary Association expressing Saxton's appreciation upon receiving life membership in the organization; and ALS (1889 June 14) to John M. Burt reflecting Saxton's patriotism.

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Saxton, Rufus, 1824-1908

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Saxton was born in Greenfield, Massachusetts. His father, Jonathan Ashley Saxton, was a Unitarian and a Transcendentalist whose feminist and abolitionist writings were heard on the lyceum circuit. He descended from a family of Unitarian ministers (Ashley, Williams, Edwards). His father attempted to secure a place for Rufus Saxton at Brook Farm in West Roxbury, Massachusetts, a transcendentalist community started by George Ripley and attended by Nathaniel Hawthorne. Rufus Saxton's brother Samuel ...

Burt, John Mowlem, Sir, 1845-1918

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American Missionary Association.

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Whipple, George, 1805-1876

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