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Letters from Zeri and miriam H. Hough, James Hadley, Jr., Vierling and Mary E. Kersey, Oliver W. Nixon, William P. Nixon, Sarah Ann Nixon, Samuel and Rhoda Nixon, R. P. Hall, and Levi Coffin concerning antislavery, the Friends School in Indian Territory, a trip to North Carolina in 1843, James West of Clinton County, Ohio, murdering his daughter, and family matters.

Scope and Contents From the Collection: The Huff-Nixon family papers consist of correspondence, legal and business papers, reminiscences, clippings, and genealogical materials of five generations of Quaker families in North Carolina and Indiana. Most of the material concerns the families of Samuel Nixon (1781-1865), his son-in-law Daniel Huff (1816-1899), and his son Dr. Oliver Nixon Huff (1852-1937) of Fountain City, Indiana, and Oliver Nixon Huff's wife, Sophia (Bogue) Huff (1866-1931). The oldest material in the Nixon-Huff...