Guide to the Charles Ashton Letter MSS.3248
Ashton, Charles
- Publication:
W.S. Hoole Special Collections Library, The University of Alabama
Mary Harmon Bryant Hall
April 2011
500 Hackberry Lane
Box 870266
Tuscaloosa, Alabama, 35487-0266
205.348.0500
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Charles Ashton Letter
- Unit ID:
MSS.3248
- Repository:
W.S. Hoole Special Collections Library, The University of Alabama
- Quantity:
0.05 Linear feet (one letter, one envelope)
- Dates:
1897 March 24
- Abstract:
One typewritten letter from Charles Ashton of Guthrie Center, Iowa, to his young grandson Ned Ashton of Knoxville, Iowa. Charles Ashton talked of the new hens bought by Ned's father and instructed Ned to obey his mother and father.
Biographical/Historical note
Charles Ashton (6/2/1823 - ? ) was born in England and emigrated to the United States as a child. He married Mary Haverfield in 1845 and at various times in his life worked as a farmer, preacher, and railroad organizer. Later in life he served on the Iowa Columbian Commission and as the editor of the Guthrian, a Republican weekly newspaper. He and his wife had eleven children, nine of whom survived to adulthood.
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- Acquisition Information:
Provenance
Gift of Wade Hall, 2006
- Preferred Citation:
Preferred Citation note
Charles Ashton Letter, W.S. Hoole Special Collections Library, The University of Alabama
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Processed by Kendal Spires, 2011
Scope and Contents note
Contains one typewritten letter from Charles Ashton, editor of the Guthrian and member of the Iowa Columbian Commission, to his grandson Ned Ashton. Ashton wrote of the hens that Ned's father Henry had recently bought, as well as Ned's recent illness, ending with an admonishment for the young boy to listen to his parents.
Charles Ashton Letter Box SC0056 Folder 3248.01
Letter from Charles Ashton, Guthrie Center, Iowa, to Ned Aston, Knoxville, Iowa, March 7, 1897 http://purl.lib.ua.edu/44506