Cowdery-Gillum-Starling family papers, 1857-1926.

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Cowdery-Gillum-Starling family papers, 1857-1926.

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Correspondence, documents, writings, printed material, photographs and financial papers relating to the Cowdery, Gillum, and Starling families. The correspondence, which consists primarily of family news, includes letters written during the Civil War, with an account of the evacuation of Pensacola written by Lewis Cowdery, and a letter from a Union soldier named Henry (possibly Henry Gillum) on board ship to New Orleans in 1863. There are two letters written from Texas by Virginia and Henry Gillum, one referring to an accident on board a steamer, another referring to "interests" there, and one letter to Lewis Starling from Missouri in July, 1858, about land in Hannibal. The collection includes several items that aren't obviously related to the Cowdery, Gillum, or Starling families. There is a Confederate account book kept by Lt. Commander Joseph B. Goodwin, Company F, 16th Virginia Regiment, used to track of purchases of clothing, with lists at the back of returned men reported as deserted, and men who have been discharged, died, and killed. There are also morning reports of Captain G. Alexander, Assistant Provost Marshal, Eastern District dated November-December 1863, listing men arrested, and including Julia Ann Cheek and C. Cheek, a "negro woman and infant." Also present is the machine room time book of the Thomas Clock Company in Thomaston, Conn., dated 1905-1911.

0.8 linear ft. (2 boxes)

Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 8282483

Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library

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Starling family.

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Gillum family.

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Barlow, Kate Light.

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Alexander, G., Captain.

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Cowdery family.

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Starling, Lewis

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Cowdery, Lewis.

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Seth Thomas Clock Company

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L.L. Cowdery & Co. (Columbus, Ga.)

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Gillum, Virginia A. (Virginia Anne)

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Gillum, Henry, 1832-1907

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Nixon was born in Ireland in 1781 and settled in Coahuila y Texas in the 1820s, becoming a citizen of Mexico in 1826. He was land commissioner for the Joseph Vehlein, Lorenzo de Zavala, and David G. Burnet empresario grants (which were represented by the Galveston Bay and Texas Land Company) from July, 1834, to November, 1835, when the land office was closed by the provisional government of Texas. Nixon accumulated large personal holdings of land before his death in 1843. From the gu...

Confederate States of America. Army. Virginia Infantry Regiment, 16th

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Goodwin, Joseph B.

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Plantation manager in Cuba from Hudson, New York. From the description of Diary, 1820-1827. (New York University, Group Batchload). WorldCat record id: 58665023 ...