1862 Copley Center, Ohio SCHOOL TEACHER CIVIL WAR LETTER, Campbellite Revival !

1862 Copley Center, Ohio SCHOOL TEACHER CIVIL WAR LETTER, Campbellite Revival ! (image 3/[null, null, null, null])

1862 Copley Center, Ohio SCHOOL TEACHER CIVIL WAR LETTER, Campbellite Revival ! (image 4/[null, null, null, null])

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Postal HistoryLong 5 page Civil War letter written November 23, 1862 by Hosea Paul in Copley Center (Ohio) and sent to his parents who resided in the Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio area. A long bio of Hosea Paul is provided below - from the Spared & Shared blog. This letter was written from a school where Hosea was teaching. Terrific description of his students - very vivid and interesting. Also writes of a Campbellite Revival - a reference to followers of Thomas and Alexander Campbell - a significant religious movement of this period. Just two years later, Hosea was off to the war. He and his family were heavily involved in surveying lands for the government and mining, oil and gas companies.From the Spared & Shared Blog:Hosea Paul, Jr. worked as a paid volunteer at the U. S. Christian Commission at City Point, Virginia, during a six week period in the fall of 1864. Since Hosea was an impressionable young man with keen observation skillsâand blessed with sufficient time to record themâthe letters offer us a rare opportunity to look into the inner workings of the Commission at this critical supply point. While there, Hosea visited with and wrote often about Sylvanus Cadwalladerâthe now famous correspondent of the New York Herald, previously of the Chicago Times , whose embellished reports on Gen. Grant unjustly tended to fuel the stories of Grantâs penchant for excessive drinking in the field. Cadwallader was the husband of Hoseaâs cousin, Belle Paul.The following biographical sketch comes from the catalogue records of the Western Reserve Historical Society:âHosea Paul (1845-1923) was born in Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio, on January 17, 1845. His parents, Hosea and Ellen Gamble Paul, were early settlers of the region, traveling from Vermont to Ohio in 1834. Hosea, one of the youngest of seven children, followed his fatherâs and older brothersâ professional interests in surveying and trained under their tutelage. While Hoseaâs father and brothers served in the American Civil War, he managed the familyâs surveying business, completing Summit County maps and surveys.âAfter 1864, Hosea Paul participated in relief work for the Army of the Potomac, City Point, Virginia, and from 1865 to 1866, he surveyed Oil Creek and Pithole, Pennsylvania. Returning to Akron in 1866, Paul served for a period of time as City Engineer and County Auditor. During his surveying career, he prepared city maps and atlases, including ones for Wabash County, Indiana, and Cleveland, Ohio. He worked for fifteen years in railroad surveying and construction in Detroit and Toledo and served as assistant engineer for the Cleveland Park System and as Deputy Surveyor for Cuyahoga County.âIn 1875, Hosea Paul married Emma Plum, whose family members were early settlers in Cuyahoga Falls. Well-read and intelligent, she accompanied her husband on many of his surveying travels in the Midwest. Their only child, Katie Eveline, died of diphtheria at the age of ten. Emma died in 1913 in Cleveland of heart failure. Paul took office in 1913 as Cuyahoga County Recorder, being familiar with land division and transfer laws, and he was easily reelected in 1916. During his tenure as County Recorder, he proposed that the Torrens System, a progressive system of land transfer laws, be adopted by Cuyahoga County. He held his position of County Recorder until his voluntary retirement. During his later years, Paul was elected to the Board of Education in Cleveland and was a founding member of the Cleveland Engineering Society. He was also active in the City Club and the Cleveland Real Estate Board and was a director of the Associate Investment Company and the Summit County Bank. Paul was well-known for his historical addresses and writings regarding the pioneer settlement of the Western Reserve and the history of oil development.â [ Western Reserve Historical Society ]FULL SCANS provided for your research benefit.TERMS$3.00 postage in the United States. We accept Paypal.Postage combined for multiple purchases. Please wait for me to send the invoice, otherw... read more

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