George Ashmun was a member of the House of Representatives from Massachusetts from 1845 to 1851. He presided over the Republican Party convention in 1860 that nominated Abraham Lincoln for President.
Combination of travel diary and recipes and receipts. The cookbook consists of approximately 51 manuscript pages, plus 8 later manuscript recipes laid in, and contains some 100 recipes primarily for cakes and other baked goods, including, Jane's...