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0134: Clendenning Family Papers, 1850-1955, Marshall University Special Collections

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The collection consists primarily of two groups of letters. The first group were written by Arminda Holiday Clendenning of Freeport, Harrison County, Ohio, to her sister Ann Holliday Winder of Iowa, from 1850 until 1867. She writes of local and family news, life in the country, and later, as a young married woman, of her family and her husband’s business. Several letters mention travels and migrations of family and friends to the West.

The second group of letters were written by Robert Joseph Clendenning, grandson of Arminda Clendenning, to his family during the FirstWorld War. He describes his life in …

0183: Elizabeth Bostwick Typescript, 1976, Marshall University Special Collections

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This collection contains a term paper written for a course on Appalachian Culture. The paper, entitled, `The influence of German settlers on the pioneer period of Pendleton County' includes maps, and a fold-out family tree of the Henkel family.