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Margaret Hubbard Countryman Collection
Collection Summary
Title
Margaret Hubbard Countryman Collection
Date
Approximately 1806 to 1960
Extent
36 folders
Name and Location of Repository
Midwest Genealogy Center, Independence (Mo.)
Reference code: MGC 1049-MHCC
Processed by: Jolene Clark, 2014; Finding aid created by Jolene Clark, 2014
Name of Creator
Countryman, Margaret Hubbard
Biographical History
Margaret Hubbard Countryman is the daughter of Maggie Amelia Dunkleberg and Clark Seymour
Hubbard. She was born on October 30, 1881 in Illinois. She married Ralph A Countryman on June 2, 1903
in Chicago, Illinois. Together they had four children, Caroline, Clark, Mary and William.
Scope and Content
The collection includes research done in 1940s and 1950s by Margaret Hubbard Countryman on both
her family, the Hubbard line, and her husband’s family, the Countryman line. The collection includes
unique family items some dated from the nineteenth century. The oldest item in the collection is a
pension request for Godfrey Young dated 1806. Some other interesting items include a calling card from
Paulina Hubbard circa 1830, Alonzo Hamlin’s bank notes from the 1850s and 1860s, a Palmer family
reunion invitation from 1881, and a Thanksgiving dinner menu and guest list from 1907. The collection
contains some old correspondence including a not dated 1832, a letter dated 1853, a telegram from
Ralph Countryman from Nicaragua in 1933 that stated he was “back from the jungle,” and a letter typed
in 1956 on war surplus paper that was for “unimportant letters (those that need not be kept long).”
Also included are photographs of several family members including a tintype of James Alonzo
Countryman, a member of the Illinois state legislature.
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Margaret Hubbard Countryman Collection
Collection Inventory
System of Arrangement
These records are arranged in 2 series.
Series 1, Genealogy research
Folder 1, Baldwin Family
Folder 2, Bradt Family
Folder 3, Cogswell Family
Folder 4, Countryman Family
Folder 5, Denison Family
Folder 6, Dunkleburg/Dunkleburger Family
Folder 7, Dyer Family
Folder 8, Ellis Family
Folder 9, Fiske Family
Folder 10, French Family
Folder 11, Hamlin Family
Folder 12, Hillard Family
Folder 13, Hubbard Family
Folder 14, Hudson Family
Folder 15, Hyde Family
Folder 16, Inman Family
Folder 17, Jacobus and Jillson Family
Folder 18, Palmer Family
Folder 19, Potter Family
Folder 20, Randall Family
Folder 21, Ray Family
Folder 22, Ritchie-Davis Family
Folder 23, Shimer Family
Folder 24, Sitler Family
Folder 25, Sweet Family
Folder 26, Thompson Family
Folder 27, Todd Research Project
Folder 28, Young Family
Folder 29, Misc. Families
Folder 30, Research Notebooks
Series 2, Miscellaneous
Folder 31, Announcements, Cards and Programs
Folder 32, Correspondence
Folder 33, Obituaries
Folder 34, Pedigree Charts
Folder 35, Photographs
Folder 36, Wedding Announcements
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Margaret Hubbard Countryman Collection
Rights and Access
Conditions Governing Access
The collection is open for research use by appointment.
Physical Access
Most records within this collection are housed within file folders
Conditions Governing Reproduction and Use
Permission to publish, quote, or reproduce must be secured from the Midwest Genealogy Center.
Languages and Scripts of the Material
Materials in the collection are entirely in English.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
This collection was donated by the Lawrence Public Library which obtained the materials from a child of
Margaret Hubbard Countryman.
Accruals
No further accruals are expected for this collection.
Existence and Location of Originals
Originals owned by the Midwest Genealogy Center.
Notes
The following sources were consulted during the preparation of the biographical history:
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Ancestry.com. 1920 United States Federal Census [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA:
Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2010. Images reproduced by FamilySearch.
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Ancestry.com. 1930 United States Federal Census [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA:
Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2002.
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Ancestry.com. Cook County, Illinois, Marriages Index, 1871-1920 [database on-line]. Provo, UT,
USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2011.
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Ancestry.com. U.S., Social Security Death Index, 1935-2014 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA:
Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2011.
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• An Historic Strain of Blood in America : Frances Latham Mother of Governors / Tracy, Louise.
• Ancestors and Descendants of Samuel E. Bradt and Bertha Glidden Bradt / Bradt, Bertha
Glidden.
• Captain George & Lady Ann : The Denisons of Pequotsepos Manor / Haynes, William.
• Colonial Families of America / Smith, Frances M.
• Notes on the Ancestry of Sylvester Baldwin / Baldwin, Charles C.
• Some of the Early Jacksons in Cambridge, Mass. / Jackson, Fred Kinney.
• Woodruff Collection
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