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Preferred Citation:

Ayres Papers, Special Collections Research Center, Swem Library, College of William and Mary.

Acquisition Information:

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Scope and Contents

Correspondence, 1833-1855, of members of the Ayres family including John W. Ayres at Chillicothe and Cincinnati, Ohio; and Fort Madison and Agency City, Iowa (with his father John B. Ayres at Diana Mills, Buckingham County, Va.), Robert H. Ayres, Hillsboro, Ohio and Jackson, Tenn. (with John B. Ayres, Matthias L. Ayres and Suckie Ayres) and Nathan W. Ayres (with Matthias L. Ayres and William Ford & Co., Richmond, Va. Letters concern the Methodist Church, abolitionists, politics, Thomsonian medicine; and passing the examination to be admitted to practice law in Iowa.

Subjects and Indexing Terms

• Abolitionists
• Buckingham County (Va.)--History--19th century
• Cincinnati (Ohio)--History--19th century
• Correspondence
• Iowa--History--19th century
• Medicine, Botanic
• Methodist Church--Virginia--History--19th century
• Ohio--History--19th century
• Virginia--Politics and Government--19th century