Dwight Henry Cory Letters and Diary

Tomorrow is the anniversary of our wedding and I am glad I was there and I wish I knew that you were glad too. It is thirty-eight years since you took charge of me and I now weigh 180 lbs. but look at you. You don't look as though you had enough to eat. I shall have to change your diet or your climate or something to get you fat. Write me in care of Rob and let me know what to bring you from Cleveland.

Your Loving Husband

D. H. Cory

[On the other side]

You don't know how nice it is to get a letter from the whole crowd when you have been two weeks away from home and it is Sunday with nothing to do only to read and think of home and what is going on there. I thank you all for the pleasure of it and will send the letter to Alma.

Yours As Ever

D. H. Cory

I had thought to be with you now but time is going so fast and I am getting acquainted with the neighbors and Uncle Charlie and I have such rides every day over the hills with Walden Ridge always in sight that I can hardly decide to bring my visit to a close so soon. We are going to hear a man preach today in the Universalist Church who was in Ashtabula when John was there and said he was present when John was admitted to conference. This man is now a Universalist. We met him in the printing office and had quite a chat. We had gone there to see a type setting machine and it is a wonderful invention.

Now I don't know when I will be in Granville. Charlie says I am going to stay all winter and as he has got all my money maybe I will have to stay and board it out. Harry was here over night but I did not get much chance to visit with him. He paid me $254.00 and I lent it to Charlie and he will use it at the coal bank I guess but I can get it at any time if it should be needed. How is Ben getting along with the Jewelry business? Haven't heard much about it and will Charles quit the stove works when school commences again? I suppose you are working night and day to get Beulah and Harriet ready for school. Bless their Dear Hearts and count their Heads. Spank them good and send them to school but if I don't come they won't have to eat such wonderful messes of mixings as they did last winter and that will be "joyful." Charlie has just gone to the office to see a patient and called to me to hurry up but a little girl got into the buggy with him and drove off. I frequently give the little ones a ride while the Dr. is making a call. Went to see a woman delivered who was taken with nervous prostration on hearing that her son had fallen from a telegraph pole and would be brought home dead and Charlie gave her a Heart tonic and she was better the next morning.

We have frequent councils over his patients after we get back to his office and don't you believe he will seldom agree with me in clinical treatment although our diagnosis is about the same. He says it will take at least six months to give me the necessary polish for a physician and then I had better go west or farther south where they don't know much and are willing to die.

Give my love to all our friends and love to Charles, Beulah, Harriet, and Ben and please write soon.

Your Loving father, D. H. Cory

Your letter announcing the Marriage of Beulah was received with much surprise and pleasure. Our friend Mr. Hall has got a wife that can keep house and one that he can feel Proud of anywhere. They have our best wishes for Happiness and Prosperity - "Good Luck to em."

I sent you yesterday a pamphlet with Pictures of The officers of the Battle of Gettysburg and the Monuments erected by the States represented on the field and our Regiment has a very fine one. We with the Cavalry Division captured Stewart's wagon train that he had loaded with stones taken from the people of Chambersburg and all along their line of march we cut the spokes in the wheels and left the wagons with contents for their people to get and we captured about 1500 prisoners. That was the best job we did in the four years war. You ought to see Eva's children. They are The Nicest Ever but Lois is just full of mischief. She got up to the Bureau yesterday and found my pen and went to writing on the wall and broke the feed and bent the pen badly but I got it fixed and her spanked so that is settled. I tend the Baby and take him with Lois out with the Cab almost every day and it gives Eva a little chance to do her work. It takes lots of washing for they dirty their diapers every time they think of it. I expect to stay here till spring for Harry has been ordered to Boston on a Torpedo Boat and there is no knowing when he will return. Every man in the Navy must spend a certain portion of his time on the Ocean and Harry has now been two years in some navy yard and must take his turn out of port and that makes it almost necessary for me to stay with her and help her.

We went through Wanamaker's store with a guide from first to the 12th floor and from there to the roof and from there we could see all over the city. I went one day with Harry over the Battle Ship. Saw a 13 in Gun, several of them and saw how they were fired but I didn't bring the gun with me You Bet for it is too big for my use and it cost 13.00 dollars to load it. This is a nice city but the streets are too narrow for Double track and so the cars just run around out one street and back on the next one running parallel with it. There is a big paved school yard just across from our room and it is like a circus over there all day during vacation and the yard is full of kinds under the care of teachers who direct their play and keep order. The children are both asleep and Eva is thinking what to get for dinner. Wish you could sit at our table and have some watermelon that is now in the ice chest. I must close this letter and writhe to Florence and Uncle Charles. He enjoyed his visit very much as we all did.

With Best wishes to you and yours. Your Loving father

D. H. Cory

Warren, Oct. 6. - Thirteen veterans of the Sixth Ohio Volunteer Cavalry, who met here Tuesday in their 62nd reunion, recounted together some of the major battles of that historic company's career.

Secretary E. P. Goodrich of Warren, reported that of the officers of the entire regiment only four are now living - Captain John N. Roberts in San Diego, Cal; lieut. Davis in Jamestown, N.Y.; Lieut. Aaron Wagner, of Akron, and Sgt. A. D. Rockwell, Flushing, L. I., New York. Lieut. Davis is totally blind and Lieut. Wagner is disabled. Of the regiment of 1,758 officers and men, less than 100 are now living.

The Sixth was organized on the Warren fairgrounds in October of 1861, and was retained in the service until 1865. It served in the Valley of Virginia and in front of Washington, D. C, and its battles included those of Kelly's Ford, Upperville, Gettysburg, Bristol Station, Rims Station, Dinwiddie Court House, Five Forks, and Mine Run. A fragment of the flag shot to bits in this battle is on display in the G. A. R. rooms here.

President George R. Braden of Ravenna was chairman over the business meeting. He appointed S. G. Hickok, R. D. Sager, and Mrs. Mabel Kyle as a committee on resolutions, and H. A. Sager as a nominating committee.

Among the resolutions adopted was one asking Congress to speedily pass the pension bill granting $72 per month to the veterans and $50 to the widows, regardless of age or marriage limitation.

An executive committee appointed consists of: Mrs. Margaret Elliott, S. W. Gibbons and Mrs. Lillian Mulhollan, all of Warren.

The veterans, proud of their vigor at ages ranging upward from 83 to 90, declared that they realized that their ranks are rapidly thinning and suggested that younger persons in the persons of sons and daughters, be elected. Accordingly, Mrs. B. L. Newman of Jefferson, was elected president, E. P. Goodrich of Warren was re-elected secretary and treasurer.


Cleveland, O., Aug. 3, 1914

Dwight Corry (Dec'd)
S. W. Mather Casket Co.
To Casket and Rough Box 25 -
Funeral Car 30 -
Undertaker's Services 5 -
Embalming 5 -
Door Wreath 3 -
Chairs 2 -
Rec'd Soldiers Claim in full payment of a/c of Dwight Corry (Dec'd) S. W. Mather 75 -

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