http://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification 720 http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/search?docsPerPage%3D100;expand%3Dsubject;f1-subject%3DAbolitionists%20--%20Ohio.;facet-format%3DManuscript%20Collection;facet-format%3DPhotograph%20Collection;freeformQuery%3Dcompany%20OR%20business%20OR%20manufacturing%20OR%20corporation Results for your query: docsPerPage=100;expand=subject;f1-subject=Abolitionists -- Ohio.;facet-format=Manuscript Collection;facet-format=Photograph Collection;freeformQuery=company OR business OR manufacturing OR corporation Tue, 28 Jul 2020 12:00:00 GMT http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS3891.xml John Henry Mathews (1785-1862) was the first doctor in Painesville, Ohio. He married Martha Devotion Huntington, the daughter of Ohio's third governor. Dr. Mathews had a pharmaceutical company with Jedediah Hills and a medical practice with his half-brother, Dr David Mathews. He was also an abolitionist and suspected member of the Undrground Railroad. The collection consists of correspondence of John H. Mathews, Jedediah Hills and Charles B. Storrs, miscellaneous papers of Alfred, Rodney and Samuel Mathews, Wills of John and Martha Mathews, contracts, legal notices, transcripts, partnership papers, accounts, orders, bills, receipts, appraisals, financial notes, tax statements and receipts, daybooks, indices, ledgers, invoice and account books, and material relating to Dr. David Mathews. http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS3891.xml Wed, 01 Jan 2014 12:00:00 GMT http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS4017.xml Samuel Mathews (1816-1891) was the son of Dr. John Henry Mathews (1785-1862) and Martha Huntington Mathews, daughter of the third Governor of Ohio. Samuel was one of the first white children born in Painesville, Ohio. In 1844 he married Hulda O. Ford (d. 1857), daughter of Darius Ford, one of the first settlers of East Cleveland. In 1849 Mathews traveled to California with his partners in the Painesville Mining Company. He returned home in 1852. The collection consists of a constitution and treasurer's account book of the Painesville Mining Association, newspaper articles relating Mathews' California experiences, a diary of the overland journey to California, an annotated transcript of the diary, family correspondence, obituaries, and miscellaneous printed items. http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS4017.xml Wed, 01 Jan 2014 12:00:00 GMT