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1	Title:	Wade Family Papers
	Creator:	Wade Family
	Dates:	1862-1891
	Abstract:	Benjamin F. Wade, an Ashtabula County, Ohio, lawyer and zealous abolitionist, was one of the foremost Radical Republican United States Senators of the American Civil War. Wade demanded that Lincoln make the war a crusade to free the slaves, and he led the charge to keep control of Reconstruction in the hands of Congress. His family, descended from Jonathan Wade, a 1632 immigrant to Massachusetts, was one of the most prominent families of Ashtabula County during the 19th century. The first of the family to settle in Ashtabula County was James Wade, father of Benjamin, who arrived there in the 1820s. The collection consists of correspondence, wedding invitations, genealogy notes, newspaper clippings, and a freight receipt. The collection pertains to the views of Radical Republicans during the early stages of the Civil War. Caroline Wade's letter strongly expresses her (and probably her husband's) negative views of President Abraham Lincoln and General George B. McClellan. The genealogical material is also useful for information on the Wade family of the 17th and 18th centuries, as well as the families of Dudley, Newhall, Hills, Upham, Wigglesworth, and Leonard.
	Call #:	MS 4181
	Extent:	0.10 linear feet (1 container)
	Subjects:	Wade family -- Periodicals. \| Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865. \| McClellan, George Brinton, 1826-1885. \| Dudley family. \| Newell family. \| Hill family. \| Upham family. \| Wigglesworth family. \| Leonard family. \| Wade, B. F. (Benjamin Franklin), 1800-1878. \| United States -- Politics and government -- 1861-1865.
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2	Title:	Emily Newell Blair Family Papers
	Creator:	Blair, Emily Newell Family
	Dates:	1785-1972
	Abstract:	Emily Newell Blair was a suffragist, feminist, Democratic Party official, mother and writer. During World War I she worked in the press department of the Missouri Woman's Committee of the Council of National Defense, eventually becoming vice chair. Representing Missouri on the Democratic National Committee, Blair was chosen national vice chair responsible for organizing women voters and women's activities, and eventually rose to first vice president, organized 2,000 plus Democratic women's clubs, and helped found the Woman's National Democratic Club. In 1935, she was appointed to the Consumers' Advisory Board of the National Recovery Administration, and, in 1942, was appointed chief of the Women's Interest Section of the War Department's Public Relations Bureau. Her husband, Harry Wallace Blair, was U.S. Assistant Attorney General in the Land Div. of the Justice Dept. in the 1930s and later served with the President's Loyalty Review Board. The collection consists of personal, professional and family correspondence, published and unpublished writings by and about Emily Blair, diaries, speeches, personal and family memorabilia, and clippings. Series I and II form the bulk of the collection, Series II being largely Emily Blair's personal writings, such as diaries, speeches, published articles, typescripts of fiction and non-fiction, and typescripts of her autobiography. Blair family material consists of the papers of Harry Wallace Blair (husband), Harriet Blair Forsythe (daughter), James Patton and Anna Gray Newell (parents), and her McDowell family ancestors of Pennsylvania, particularly the correspondence of Alexander McDowell. The collection is useful for researching the history of women and the family in the early 20th century, the issues of feminism and women's suffrage, and the emergence of women as politicians within the Democratic Party. Notable correspondents include Cordell Hull, Eleanor and Franklin Roosevelt, and Harry S. Truman. McDowell family materials chronicle pioneer life on the 18th-century Pennsylvania frontier.
	Call #:	MS 4342
	Extent:	7.50 linear feet (18 containers and 1 oversize folder)
	Subjects:	Blair, Emily Newell, b. 1877 -- Archives. \| Blair family. \| Newell family. \| McDowell family. \| United States. Council of National Defense. Woman's Committee. \| Democratic National Committee (U.S.) \| Democratic Party (U.S.) \| Feminists -- United States -- Archives. \| Authors, American -- United States -- Archives. \| Feminism -- United States -- History -- Sources. \| Women in politics -- United States. \| Women -- Suffrage -- United States. \| Women -- United States -- Societies and clubs. \| Journalism, Consumer -- United States -- History -- Sources. \| Presidents -- United States -- Election -- 1932. \| World War, 1914-1918 -- Women -- United States. \| Frontier and pioneer life -- Pennsylvania -- Venango County. \| United States -- Politics and government -- 1923-1929.
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