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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.
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