Gunn Family · Primary Sources
Memoirs, diaries, letters, and published writing — the Gunn family in their own words across four centuries.
A six-week journey east in 1867 — from Illinois to the ancestral Gunn homestead at Montague, Massachusetts, and on to kin in Ohio and Indiana — kept in the hand of twenty-one-year-old Elizabeth "Lizzie" Gunn.
Told in the voice of the piano itself, three great-granddaughters recall the Boston square grand Aaron Gunn bought for his wife Nancy — and the thread that ties it to Emily Dickinson.
Roosevelt writes directly to Abby Gunn Baker to emphatically oppose a proposal to add an upper story to the White House east terrace for a portrait gallery — calling it a 'genuine architectural outrage.'
Widely known writer and promoter of education of women in Orient — the Evening Star's obituary of Abby Gunn Baker, January 1923.
A five-year-old girl watches a wandering man and his small son from her grandmother's window — and decides, quietly, to do something about it.