Lynch, Mary Atkins, 1819-1882

Scope and Contents This collection consists of 133 copies made from selected materials in the Atkins Family Papers at The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley. The Atkins family were early settlers in Ashtabula County, Ohio. The Bancroft’s collection of Atkins Family Papers document their participation in the anti-slavery movement from 1836 through 1950. The copies (solicited by Oberlin College’s second archivist in 1988) comprise correspondence of Josiah Atkins (1757-1828), who served in the...