Adams-Gilmore family papers, [ca. 1840s-1900s]

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Adams-Gilmore family papers, [ca. 1840s-1900s]

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/719556095

Correspondence, legal and financial records, photographs, memoirs, and printed items comprise the Adams-Gilmore Family Papers, [ca. 1840s-1900s], documenting the business and social activities of Harvey A. Adams, George Gilmore, and members of their families, particularly in Texas from the time of Mexican rule through the Civil War.

1 ft., 5 in.

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SNAC Resource ID: 8086945

University of Texas Libraries

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Gilmore, George, 1898-1985.

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Adams, Harvey Alexander, 1812-1895

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Gilmore family

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Adams family.

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Born in Providence, Rhode Island, to Benoni and Susan (Chamberlain) Adams, Harvey Alexander Adams (1812-1895) lived in Ohio, before settling in Fayette County, Texas, where he was appointed a Justice of the Peace in 1848. Adams also participated in the Somervell Expedition, a failed invasion of Mexico in 1842. In 1851, Adams married Caroline Eliza Barnett (1828-1851), with whom he had one daughter, Caroline Missouri Adams (1851-1921). He later married Caroline McMillan (...