Finding aid for the Wade Family Papers
Title:
Wade Family Papers
Repository:
Western Reserve Historical Society
Phone: 216-721-5722
http://www.wrhs.org
Creator:
Wade Family
Dates:
1862-1891
Quantity:
0.10 linear feet (1 container)
Abstract:
 Benjamin F. Wade, an Ashtabula County, Ohio, lawyer and zealous abolitionist, was one of the foremost Radical Republican United States Senators of the American Civil War. Wade demanded that Lincoln make the war a crusade to free the slaves, and he led the charge to keep control of Reconstruction in the hands of Congress. His family, descended from Jonathan Wade, a 1632 immigrant to Massachusetts, was one of the most prominent families of Ashtabula County during the 19th century. The first of the family to settle in Ashtabula County was James Wade, father of Benjamin, who arrived there in the 1820s. The collection consists of correspondence, wedding invitations, genealogy notes, newspaper clippings, and a freight receipt. The collection pertains to the views of Radical Republicans during the early stages of the Civil War. Caroline Wade's letter strongly expresses her (and probably her husband's) negative views of President Abraham Lincoln and General George B. McClellan. The genealogical material is also useful for information on the Wade family of the 17th and 18th centuries, as well as the families of Dudley, Newhall, Hills, Upham, Wigglesworth, and Leonard.
Identification:
MS 4181
Location:
closed stacks
Language:
The records are in English

Biography of the Wade Family

Benjamin F. Wade (1800-1878) was one of the foremost Radical Republican United States Senators of the American Civil War. His family, who descended from Jonathan Wade, a 1632 immigrant to Massachusetts, was one of the most prominent families of Ashtabula County, Ohio, during the nineteenth century. The first of the family to settle in Ashtabula County was James Wade, father of Benjamin, who arrived there in the 1820s.

Scope and Content

The Benjamin F. Wade Family Papers, 1862-1891 and undated, consist of correspondence, a freight receipt, wedding invitations, genealogy notes, and newspaper clippings.

This collection is useful for anyone interested in the views of Radical Republicans during the early stages of the American Civil War. Caroline Wade's letter strongly expresses her (and probably her husband's) negative views of President Abraham Lincoln and General George B. McClellan. The genealogical material is also useful for information on the Wade family of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, as well as the families of Dudley, Newhall, Hills, Upham, Wigglesworth, and Leonard.

Statement of Arrangement

The material is arranged chronologically and is maintained in two folders. The first folder contains a letter written by Caroline Rosekrans Wade (Benjamin F. Wade's wife) to her brother-in-law, Theodore Wade, in 1862. The second folder includes a freight receipt dated 1867, wedding invitations dated 1887-1891, an undated genealogy of the Wade family and various other ancestral families of Benjamin F. Wade, and newspaper clippings, also undated.

Restrictions on Access

None.

Indexing Terms

The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the library's online public access catalog.

Subjects:

Dudley family.
Hill family.
Leonard family.
Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865.
McClellan, George Brinton, 1826-1885.
Newell family.
United States -- Politics and government -- 1861-1865.
Upham family.
Wade family -- Periodicals.
Wade family -- Periodicals.
Wade, B. F. (Benjamin Franklin), 1800-1878.
Wigglesworth family.

Preferred Citation

[Container ___, Folder ___ ] MS 4181 Wade Family Papers, Western Reserve Historical Society, Cleveland, Ohio

Acquisition Information

Mrs. E.A. Bender, 1975.

Processing Information

Processed by Richard Hite in 1988.