144:, the daughter of Philo Kellogg and Nancy A. Riley Kellogg. She married Jonathan Patrick Sinnotte in 1848; they had two children together, Millard and Nancy, both born in Ohio. Ruth Sinnotte became a young widow with two small children when Jonathan Sinnotte died in 1852. She moved with her son and daughter to
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456:"The Photographic History of The Civil War: in ten volumes, Thousands of Scenes Photographed 1861-65, with Text by many Special Authorities, Volume 7: Prisons and Hospitals., chapter 1.9"
543:; a sketch of its origin, history, LABORS FOR THE SICK AND WOUNDED OF THE WESTERN ARMIES, AND AID GIVEN TO FREEDMEN AND UNION REFUGEES, WITH INCIDENTS OF HOSPITAL LIFE. 1864. St Louis.
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