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Title: Elizabeth Butler Gainer papers
Dates: 1845-1921 (Bulk 1845-1976)
Collection number: MS 137
Creator:
Gainer, Elizabeth Butler
Collection Size:
3 boxes
2 linear ft
2 linear ft
Repository:
University of California, Santa Cruz. University Library.
Special Collections and Archives
Santa Cruz, California 95064
Abstract: Papers documenting the history and geneology of the families Butler, Jones, Morgan, and Thomas from seventeenth-century Wales
and England to the United States.
Physical location: Stored in Special Collections & Archives: Advance notice is required for access to the papers.
Languages:
Languages represented in the collection:
English
Collection open for research.
Property rights reside with the University of California. Literary rights are retained by the creators of the records and
their heirs. For permission to publish or to reproduce the material, please contact the Head of Special Collections and Archives.
Elizabeth Butler Gainer papers. MS 137. University Archives, University Library, University of
California, Santa Cruz.
Gift of Mrs. William Julien, 1976
Elizabeth Butler Gainer 1843-1921 was born in Warren County, IL. in Larchmont and lived her early life between Larchmont &
Monmouth before traveling overland with her family to Oregon.
She resided in Long Beach, CA for 15 years. Mrs. Gainer was married to Joseph F. Gainer, was mother to Mrs. H. L. Pillsbury
[Ann Gainer], Eleanor Gainer, Marie Gainer and Frank B. Gainer as well as grandmother to Sterling Pillsbury and Elizabeth
Pillsbury. Mrs. Gainer was also the niece of Rev. Harrison Jones, a pioneer preacher in Ohio and chaplain of the regiment
commanded
by President James A. Garfield during the Civil War.
Mrs. Gainer was known as a most loveable Christian character, ever prominent in church work teaching the Loyal Women's Sunday
School class in the First Christian Church. She was also a member of the Gaviota Chapter of the Daughters of the American
Revolution.
Scope and Content of Collection
Papers documenting the history and geneology of the families Butler, Jones, Morgan, and Thomas from seventeenth-century Wales
and England to the United
States. Includes a holograph reminiscence (127 p.), typescript transcriptions of the manuscript, photographs, correspondence,
documents, scrapbook and three small framed items.
The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in
the library's online public access catalog.
Gainer, Elizabeth Butler, 1843-1921--Archives
Garfield, James A. (James Abram). 1831-1881
Illinois--Biography