Kiessel, Ruth
Person
Biography
Ruth Kiessel was related to Margaret Chatelain Kiessel. How they were related is unknown. She was close enough to Margaret Kiessel to have been given Margaret's letters written by her grandfather, Henry W. Candsell. Ruth later donated those letters to WMU's Zhang Legacy Collections Center.
Found in 1 Collection or Record:
Henry Cansdell Collection
Collection — Box 1 of 1: [Barcode: 31141024409562]
Identifier: RH-A-494
Scope and Contents
The collection is composed of 40 letters and 5 drawings/maps, the majority of them written by Henry William Cansdell (1808-1868) to his wife and daughters while he was in the Civil War and stationed in Tennessee, Wisconsin, Mississippi, and Alabama. The letters were written between December 1861 and 1864, with two other letters written in 1870.
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1861-1864, 1870