Subject | • | African Americans -- Ohio. | [X] | | • | Abbey family. |
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| | • | African Americans -- Genealogy. |
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| | • | Authors as teachers. |
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| | • | Bierce family. |
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| | • | Education, Higher -- Ohio. |
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| | • | Kistler family. |
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| | • | Ohio -- Social life and customs. |
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| | • | Scarborough family. |
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| | • | Scarborough, Sarah Cordelia Bierce, b. 1851. |
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| | • | Scarborough, W. S. (William Sanders), 1852-1926. |
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| | • | Wilberforce University. |
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| | • | Afro-American soldiers -- Ohio. |
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| | • | Grand Army of the Republic. Forest City Post, No. 556 (Cleveland, Ohio) |
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| | • | Jones, Albert G., 1842-1919. |
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| | • | Soldiers -- Ohio. |
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| | • | United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Participation, Afro-American, [Indian, etc.] |
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| | • | United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Regimental histories. |
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| | • | United States. Army -- African American troops. |
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| | • | United States. Army. Colored Infantry Regiment, 27th (1864-1865). |
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| | Manuscript Collection | Save | | 1 | Title: | Albert G. Jones Papers
| | | | Creator: | Jones, Albert G. | | | | Dates: | 1851-1930 | | | | Abstract: | Albert G. Jones was an American Civil War veteran born in Lake County, Ohio. Jones served as a 2nd Lieutenant, 27th United States Colored Troops, a unit primarily composed of Ohio soldiers, from January 1864-September 1865. He was appointed 1st Lieutenant in September 1864, and in 1865 was appointed Assistant Adjutant General. The 27th USCT participated in the campaign that captured Fort Fisher and Wilmington, North Carolina. After the war, Jones returned to Cleveland, where he worked as a laborer, clerk, and sewer inspector. In 1870, he was appointed Assistant Marshal, Northern District of Ohio, 9th United States Census. He was a charter member of the Grand Army of the Republic, Forest City Post Number 556. The collection consists of correspondence, deeds, and memorabilia. | | | | Call #: | MS 4808 | | | | Extent: | 0.20 linear feet (1 container) | | | | Subjects: | Jones, Albert G., 1842-1919. | United States. Army. Colored Infantry Regiment, 27th (1864-1865). | Grand Army of the Republic. Forest City Post, No. 556 (Cleveland, Ohio) | United States. Army -- African American troops. | Afro-American soldiers -- Ohio. | Soldiers -- Ohio. | African Americans -- Ohio. | United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Participation, Afro-American, [Indian, etc.] | United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Regimental histories.
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| Manuscript Collection | Save | | 2 | Title: | William Sanders and Sarah Cordelia Bierce Scarborough Papers
| | | | Creator: | Scarborough, William Sanders and Sarah Cordelia Bierce | | | | Dates: | 1797-1935 | | | | Abstract: | William and Sarah Scarborough were educators and writers in Greene County, Ohio, in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. William Scarborough migrated to Ohio from Georgia, graduating from Oberlin College in 1875. He spent a year at the Oberlin Theological Seminary before joining the classical department at Wilberforce University in Greene County. In 1878 he received a Master of Arts degree. Sarah Cordelia Bierce was an 1875 graduate of the State Normal School at Oswego, New York. She served as principal of the Normal Department of Wilberforce University from 1877-1887, and for the next twenty-seven years, as principal of the Combined Normal and Industrial Department at Wilberforce. William Scarborough moved up through the ranks of faculty and administration at Wilberforce, eventually becoming president of the University in 1908. During their career as educators, both wrote frequently, Sarah focusing on fiction for women's and Christian magazines, and William on scholarly topics. William joined a variety of professional and race-related organizations, including the Afro-American State League and the American Negro Academy, while his wife pursued her family's genealogy, collecting correspondence and documents for the Abbey and Bierce families. The collection consists of correspondence for the Abbey, Bierce and Scarborough families, genealogical materials, memorabilia, clippings, and articles written by Sarah Scarborough. This collection pertains primarily to the social life and conditions of a black family during the 19th and early 20th centuries. There is also a small amount of material pertaining to William Scarborough's attempts for governmental appointments in the 1890s and 1920s. | | | | Call #: | MS 4213 | | | | Extent: | 0.90 linear feet (3 containers) | | | | Subjects: | Scarborough, W. S. (William Sanders), 1852-1926. | Scarborough, Sarah Cordelia Bierce, b. 1851. | Scarborough family. | Bierce family. | Abbey family. | Kistler family. | Wilberforce University. | African Americans -- Ohio. | African American teachers -- Ohio -- Greene County. | African American women teachers -- Ohio -- Greene County. | African American authors -- Ohio. | African Americans -- Genealogy. | Authors as teachers. | Education, Higher -- Ohio. | African Americans -- Education (Higher) -- Ohio. | Ohio -- Social life and customs.
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| Photograph Collection | Save | | 3 | Title: | William Sanders and Sarah Cordelia Bierce Scarborough Family Photographs
| | | | Creator: | Scarborough, William Sanders and Sarah Cordelia Bierce Family | | | | Dates: | 1850-1920 | | | | Abstract: | William and Sarah Scarborough were educators and writers in Greene County, Ohio, in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. William Scarborough migrated to Ohio from Georgia, graduating from Oberlin College in 1875. He spent a year at the Oberlin Theological Seminary before joining the classical department at Wilberforce University in Greene County. In 1878 he received a Master of Arts degree. Sarah Cordelia Bierce was an 1875 graduate of the State Normal School at Oswego, New York. She served as principal of the Normal Department of Wilberforce University from 1877-1887, and for the next twenty-seven years, as principal of the Combined Normal and Industrial Department at Wilberforce. William Scarborough moved up through the ranks of faculty and administration at Wilberforce, eventually becoming president of the University in 1908. During their career as educators, both wrote frequently, Sarah focusing on fiction for women's and Christian magazines, and William on scholarly topics. William joined a variety of professional and race-related organizations, including the Afro-American State League and the American Negro Academy, while his wife pursued her family's genealogy, collecting correspondence and documents for the Abbey and Bierce families. The collection consists of individual photographs of Scarborough, Bierce, Abbey, and Grant family members and other family members, friends and associates. Also included is an album of views of Tretton Place, home of the Scarboroughs. | | | | Call #: | PG 396 | | | | Extent: | 0.10 linear feet (1 container) | | | | Subjects: | Scarborough, W. S. (William Sanders), 1852-1926. | Scarborough, Sarah Cordelia Bierce, b. 1851. | Scarborough family. | Bierce family. | Abbey family. | Kistler family. | Wilberforce University. | African Americans -- Ohio. | African American teachers -- Ohio -- Greene County. | African American women teachers -- Ohio -- Greene County. | African American authors -- Ohio. | African Americans -- Genealogy. | Authors as teachers. | Education, Higher -- Ohio. | African Americans -- Education (Higher) -- Ohio. | Ohio -- Social life and customs.
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