Search billions of records on Ancestry.com
   

Things to get

itemsourceattempts
Charles Hebding, death certificate   [not available on LDS pilot site--wrong link--14 May 2009
Cincinnati directory for 1853 [more information about Edgar Gregory before the war]   req'd ILL 05--not available
2 letters complaining about Edgar Gregory in Texas. Galveston Daily News 28 Jan + 3 Mar 1866   req'd ILL 4 Apr 03 from BMPL--not available; req'd from UNL 28 May 03, have now received the wrong films three times
first and last installments of Thomas Walter's 'Personal recollections and experiences of an obscure soldier'   req'd ILL 4 June; not available
Baltimore American, 1 July 1867 [re meeting addressed by Gregory June 1867] Richard Paul Fuke. 'Land Lumber and learning'. The Freedmen's Bureau and Reconstruction, ed. Paul A Cimbala and Randall M Miller. NY: Fordham, 1999. note 83  
[report of meeting July 1867] Centreville Citizen, n.d. quoted in Baltimore American 5 August 1867 Richard Paul Fuke. 'Land Lumber and learning'. The Freedmen's Bureau and Reconstruction, ed. Paul A Cimbala and Randall M Miller. NY: Fordham, 1999. note 85. also Fuke Imperfect equality p.44 n.64  
Baltimore American 30 July, 3 August, 12 August 1867 [re meetings; reference doesn't explicitly mention Gregory] Richard Paul Fuke. 'Land Lumber and learning'. The Freedmen's Bureau and Reconstruction, ed. Paul A Cimbala and Randall M Miller. NY: Fordham, 1999. note 84  
Baltimore American 5 September 1867 [re meetings; reference doesn't explicitly mention Gregory] Richard Paul Fuke. 'Land Lumber and learning'. The Freedmen's Bureau and Reconstruction, ed. Paul A Cimbala and Randall M Miller. NY: Fordham, 1999. note 86  
Baltimore American 4 September 1867 [re Gregory's speech at the Lincoln Zouave encampment] Fuke Imperfect equality page 194 note 61 GET THIS!
perhaps: New York Herald, May 1866 see 'The Freedmen's Bureau and its workings' for a reference  
[Gregory's final report about Texas]. Records of the Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands. Letters Received, Commissioner. Edgar Gregory to Oliver Howard, 18 June 1866. cited in William L Richter, Overreached on all sides (College Station, Texas A&M University Press, 1991), e.g. at page 329 note 60 requested from NARA 4 Nov 03; they couldn't find it in a brief search
Cincinnati city directory entries for Edgar Gregory (there in the 1850 census)    
Philadelphia city directory entries for Edgar Gregory (there in the 1860 census)    
letter, Howard to Gregory, 3 March 1866 [the "wise as serpents" letter], Freedmen's Bureau, letters sent, II 189 cited in Bentley History of the Freedmen's Bureau p.241 note 3  
report, by Edgar Gregory (Ass't Commissioner of Freedmen's Bureau, for Maryland), 11 January 1868, in Freedmen's Bureau records, letters received cited in Bentley History of the Freedmen's Bureau, page 180, at note 74  
death notice, Philadelphia Inquirer, 19 and 20 January 1920 (free preview only, on GenealogyBank.com; searched 20 April 2008)
'Prison chaplain 28 years ousted--Dies in 4 days--Rev. Joseph Welch succumbs to attack of hemorrhage'. Philadelphia Inquirer, 19 January 1920. (free preview only, on GenealogyBank.com; searched 20 April 2008)
'Bury prison chaplain--Eastern Penitentiary inmates send floral tribute'. Philadelphia Inquirer 22 January 1920. (free preview only, on GenealogyBank.com; searched 20 April 2008)
'M'Kenty is cleared by prison probers'. Philadelphia Inquirer 10 January 1920. (free preview only, on GenealogyBank.com; searched 20 April 2008)
'Governor demands early report on prison inquiry--State Board of Charities ordered to speed up ...'. Philadelphia Inquirer, 22 December 1919: (free preview only, on GenealogyBank.com; searched 20 April 2008)

top of document | home
revised 12 Oct 08
contact Harry Ide at hide1@unl.edu with comments or questions