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[Description and date of item], [Box/folder number], Gard Family Correspondence, A&M 4424, West Virginia and Regional History Center, West Virginia University Libraries, Morgantown, West Virginia.

Content Description

Letters between Lucy Todd Gard, her husband Isaac Newton Gard, and their family and friends. Lucy, originally from Newport, Kentucky, married Isaac Gard of Greenville, Ohio in the 1830s. Isaac was a physician and served in the Ohio state legislature in the 1840s. The letters discuss family events, personal matters, Isaac's medical practice, antebellum politics, the Whig party, the Baptist Association in Trenton, Ohio, and social events in Jacksonburg and Greenville, Ohio. Also included in this collection are two letters written in 1874 to Lieutenant Harry Knox from his father, John Knox, and sister, Elizabeth Knox. At the time the letters were written Harry was serving in the U.S. Navy aboard the USS Monongahela and was stationed on the Island of St. Helena. He married Lucy and Isaac Gard's daughter, Mary, in 1875. The collection also includes two manuscript acrostic poems sent to Miss Mayo (1829) and Miss Taylor (undated); and two photographs (one of William H. Gist, governor of South Carolina, and the other a carte de visite of S. H. Conner inscribed with "for the Constitution, the union and the laws").

Subjects and Indexing Terms

• Gard family
• Greenville (Ohio)
• Knox, Harry, fl. 1874
• Medicine -- United States -- History -- 19th century
• Newport (Ky.)
• Ohio - Politics and government - 19th century.