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1Title:  Jeremiah B. and Elizabeth Taggart Mansfield Papers     
 Creator:  Mansfield, Jeremiah B. and Elizabeth Taggart 
 Dates:  1810-1898 
 Abstract:  Jeremiah Browning Mansfield, the son of Samuel and Elizabeth Mansfield, was born in 1841 in Ohio, and raised on his father's farm in Wayne Township, Jefferson County, Ohio. He and his older brother Oliver served in the 52nd Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry during the American Civil War. Jeremiah Mansfield participated in the Battles of Chickamauga and the Battle of Perrysville, and then served at Camp Sheridan in Nashville, Tennessee until the end of the war. He and Elizabeth Taggart Mansfield were married in Harrison County, Ohio in 1869. She was born in 1845 in Harrison County, Ohio, and received a teaching certificate in 1863. Her brother, Milton, attended Oberlin College and Michigan Law School. By 1880, Jeremiah and Elizabeth Mansfield had settled in Wells Township, Jefferson County, Ohio, where they farmed and raised five children. The collection consists of correspondence, essays, and miscellany relating to the Mansfield and Taggart families; Jefferson and Harrison counties, Ohio; the Civil War; and Oberlin College and Michigan Law School. The papers include letters written over a twenty-year period to James Carrick, an early settler of Harrison County, Ohio and ancestor of the Mansfield/Taggart family. 
 Call #:  MS 4592 
 Extent:  0.20 linear feet (1 container) 
 Subjects:  Mansfield, Jeremiah Browning. | Mansfield, Elizabeth Taggart. | Mansfield family. | Taggart family. | Carrick, James. | United States. Army. Ohio Infantry Regiment, 52nd (1862-1865). | Oberlin College. | University of Michigan. Law School. | Antislavery movements -- United States. | Farmers -- Ohio -- Jefferson County. | Women -- Ohio -- Harrison County. | Women -- Ohio -- Jefferson County. | College students -- Ohio -- Correspondence. | Soldiers -- Ohio -- Correspondence. | United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Personal narratives. | Jefferson County (Ohio) -- Social life and customs -- 19th century. | Harrison County (Ohio) -- Social life and customs -- 19th century.
 
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2Title:  John Otis Wattles and Esther Whinery Wattles Family Papers     
 Creator:  Wattles, John Otis and Esther Whinery 
 Dates:  1820-1960 
 Abstract:  John Otis Wattles was a radical Hicksite Quaker and an ardent abolitionist. With his brother Augustus, John founded the Prairie Home Community in Logan County, Ohio; the Clermont/Excelsior, Ohio, utopian community; and, later, the town of Moneka, Kansas. John married Esther Whinery, an elementary school teacher, in 1844. The Wattles brothers and Esther actively defended John Brown. They continued to promote abolitionism and utopian communal living until John Wattles' death in 1859. Esther and her three daughters then returned from Kansas to Oberlin, Ohio, where the girls attended Oberlin College. Esther died in Coconut Grove, Florida, in 1908. The collection consists of articles of incorporation, autobiographies, by-laws, correspondence, essays, genealogical charts, journals, ledger books, lists, magazine and newspaper clippings, memoirs, minutes, notes, obituaries, poems, a scrapbook, speech texts, and wills. 
 Call #:  MS 5041 
 Extent:  1.20 linear feet (2 containers) 
 Subjects:  Wattles, John Otis, d. 1859. | Wattles, Augustus, 1807-1876. | Wattles, Esther Whinery, 1819-1908. | Wattles, Lucretia Celestia, 1849-1933. | Woodford, Harmonia Wattles, 1851-1924. | Case, Theano Wattles, 1853-1949. | Wattles family. | Prairie Home Community (Logan County, Ohio) | Excelsior Community (Clermont County, Ohio) | Moneka (Linn County, Kansas) | Oberlin College. | Abolitionists -- United States. | Quakers -- Ohio. | Slavery -- United States. | Collective settlements -- Ohio. | Collective settlements -- Kansas.
 
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