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Box 3

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Contains 12 Results:

Miscellaneous clippings, death of Henry C. Corbit, 1840s-1850s

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pp. 1-5, includes letter of thanks to Mrs. Charles S. Ogden, President of the Ladies Association from Tenth Ward Relief Association Resolution, 1858 (p. 4)

Dates: 1840s-1850s

Clippings concerning election of Abraham Lincoln, War, Ogden's appointment as Consul to Quebec annotated with notes by Charles S. Ogden, 1850-1860s

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pp. 6-36, Tenth Ward People's Campaign Club ribbon, signed A. Lincoln (p. 9). Ogden was active in Lincoln's campaign and a delegate from the Tenth Ward at the Republican Convention in Philadelphia; also Clippings concerning Ogden's gift of a study of George Washington to the Historical which he purchased the Charles Willson Peale portrait at the sale of the Peale gallery in 1854

Dates: 1850-1860s

Clippings and memorabilia, Philadelphia Monthly Meeting and Union League

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pp. 28-35, Letter from the Monthly Meeting accepting Ogden's explanation for his business failure; Notification of his election to the Union League of Philadelphia, 1864. He notes that he served in various capacities until his resignation in 1886 when he went abroad

Clippings

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pp. 36-55, Death of his brother-in-law, Charles Corbit, and clipping on Pennsylvania Hall with a note by Ogden that he was present at the opening of Pennsylvania hall and at its destruction

Wedding of H. Corbit Ogden and Lizzie C. Bowman, 1877

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pp. 56-62. Married at Saint Stephen's Church, Wilkes Barre. Family photographs

Dates: 1877

Family genealogy and visits to Quaker Sites

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pp. 104-116, Bowman, Low, Middleton families and visits to homes of George Fox, William Penn, and Benjamin West

Pages 154-155

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Clipping on espionage in Quebec during United States Civil War. Quebec had many Confederate sympathizers