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Pittenger Family Letters
Pittenger family
A&M 3127
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1841-1875
Various Pittenger family members wrote these letters, mostly to other family members. The most frequent correspondent is Abraham Pittenger, a farmer, teacher, and local government official in Hancock County. The letters detail farming and marketing of farm goods, educational developments, affairs of the Presbyterian Church, and family events. The collection also provides significant information about the early Republican party, secession crisis, Civil War and Reconstruction.
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Pennsylvania
Ohio
Illinois
Hancock County (W. Va.)
African-Americans. SEE ALSO Coal miners - African Americans.
Weather
Wheeling Convention -- Wheeling (W. Va.) -- First
Teachers
Politics and government.
Steamboats
Jews & Judaism.
Elections
Schools
Farms and farming.
Churches -- Presbyterian and Reformed
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865
Oil and Gas Industry and Fields.
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Prisoners and prisons
Churches -- West Virginia -- Hancock County
Livestock
Clergy
Civil War -- Illinois 28th Infantry
Abolition of slavery
Republican Party (U.S. : 1854- )
Aten, William.
Pittenger family