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1Title:  Albanus K. Moulton Papers     
 Creator:  Moulton, Albanus K. 
 Dates:  1853-1872 
 Abstract:  Albanus K. Moulton (1810-1873) was a Freewill Baptist minister and radical abolitionist who served as a pastor at churches in Lowell, Massachusetts; Russell Township, Ohio; Maple Grove, Ohio; Cleveland, Ohio; Bremer County, Iowa; Portland and Lewiston, Maine; and Manchester and Dover, New Hampshire. He also served as a trustee of Bates College in Lewiston, Maine. The collection consists of four diaries. 
 Call #:  MS 5205 
 Extent:  0.20 linear feet (1 container) 
 Subjects:  Abolitionists -- United States. | Baptists -- Massachusetts -- Lowell | Baptists -- Ohio -- Cleveland | Baptists -- Sermons -- 19th century | Baptists -- United States -- Clergy | Moulton family | Moulton, Albanus K., 1810-1873 | United States Christian Commission.
 
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2Title:  Ford and White Family Papers Collected by Ella Almira White Ford     
 Creator:  Ford and White Family 
 Dates:  1809-1975 
 Abstract:  The families of Thomas White and Andrew Ford resided in Massachusetts in the mid-1600s. Their descendants migrated to Cleveland, Ohio, where Ella White (1883-1952) married Horatio Ford (1881-1952) in 1908. The collection consists primarily of genealogical data on the Horatio Ford family and the Thomas White family. Includes diaries, newspaper clippings, correspondence, certificates, receipts, forms, and miscellaneous writings by Horatio C. Ford. The diaries (1845-1848) contain references to temperance, abolitionists, the Mexican-American War, and the Liberty Party. 
 Call #:  MS 3666 
 Extent:  4.61 linear feet (7 containers and 1 oversize folder) 
 Subjects:  Ford family. | White family. | Douglass, Frederick, 1818-1895. | Garrison, William Lloyd, 1805-1879. | Wright, Henry Clarke, 1797-1870. | East Cleveland Anti-Slavery Society. | Liberty Party. | African Americans -- Legal status, laws, etc. | Abolitionists -- United States. | Antislavery movements -- United States. | Temperance.
 
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3Title:  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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