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Manuscript Archive of the family of Mrs. Lola Gaylord McCulloch wife of Henry Ashby McCulloch son of General Henry Eustace McCulloch Texas Ranger and Confederate General as well as her daughter Lolita McCulloch Sutherland and grandson Ashby McCulloch Sutherland of San Antonio Texas Monterrey Mexico and New York New York 1836 -1944

0301781433 letters 4409 pages 647 retained mailing envelopes dated 1845 to 1944.The collection consists of five cartons of material. The collection includes letters of five generations of the McCulloch family written over the course of one hundred years starting with Major Alexander McCulloch 1779-1886 to his 3rd great grandson Ashby McCulloch Sutherland 1921-1998 with the bulk of the letters covering the families of Henry Ashby McCulloch his wife Lola Gaylord their daughter Lolita McCulloch and her husband William Alexander Sutherland and Lolita and William's son Ashby McCulloch Sutherland. The collection also includes 3 diaries 3 address books 2 notebooks 1 expense account book plus 942 photographs and approximately 1400 pieces of printed and manuscript ephemeral items with the bulk being from 1900s-1940s. History of the McCulloch - Sutherland Families of San Antonio TexasMajor Alexander McCulloch and wife Francis Le Noir 1779-1866Major Alexander McCulloch was born in Virginia and raised in North Carolina. He was a graduate of Yale and an aide-de-camp to General James Coffee under General Andrew Jackson in the Creek Indian War and the War of 1812 from 1812-1815 in Alabama Georgia and New Orleans. He died in Dyer County Tennessee in August 1846.The McCulloch family had been wealthy politically influential and socially prominent in North Carolina before the American Revolution but Alexander McCulloch had wasted much of his inheritance and was unable even to educate his sons. Two of his older sons briefly attended a school in Tennessee taught by their neighbor Sam Houston. After several moves the family settled at Dyersburg where one of their closest neighbors was David Crockett who became a great influence on Alexander's sons Henry Eustace McCulloch and his older brother Ben McCulloch who both would later become Confederate brigadier generals during the American Civil War.Major Alexander McCulloch married Francis F. Le Noir who was born 11 April 1779 in Virginia. She was the daughter of a planter and slaveholder. Her only brother John Peterson Le Noir died in New Orleans of a wound received in a skirmish the night of 21 December 1814 while serving in the U.S. Army in the War of 1812. She came to Texas after 1846 and lived at the home of her son Captain John S. McCulloch in Ellis County until her death on 10 May 1866. She and her husband had 12 children together.One son of Alexander and Francis was Alexander McCulloch who served in the army of Texas in 1836-37 and was an officer in the U.S. Army in the Mexican War. Another son was Benjamin McCulloch who participated in the Battle of San Jacinto as a private served in the Mexican War as a captain and was killed in the Battle of Pea Ridge Arkansas 7 March 1862 while serving as a Brigadier General in the Confederate Army. A third son was John S. McCulloch a captain in the Confederate Army who Francis went to Texas to live with. A fourth son and the line of McCullochs that this archive offered here descended from was General Henry Eustace McCulloch. This archive contains one letter written by Major Alexander McCulloch to his wife dated 1845.General Henry Eustace McCulloch 1816-1895 and wife Jane Isabella Ashby 1822-1896General Henry Eustace McCulloch was an early pioneer Texas Ranger and Confederate officer. He was born in Rutherford County Tennessee on December 6 1816. Although he played an important role in military affairs in early Texas he received fewer accolades than his more famous cohorts John S. Rip Ford John C. Jack Hays and his older brother Benjamin McCulloch. In the 1830s Ben and Henry McCulloch carried on several economic enterprises. They traveled the Mississippi River on log rafts to various markets and by the end of the decade they had moved to Gonzales to survey and locate lands. In 1839 in the political struggles at Gonzales Henry McCulloch shot and killed Reuben Ross after the latter intoxicated and obnoxious drew his pistols. The angular-featured gentle-looking McCulloch joined the Texas Rangers in the heyday of their role as citizen soldiers against Native Americans and Mexican troops. In the battle of Plum Creek in 1840 against the Comanches he scouted fought with distinction and was wounded. In addition he served as a lieutenant in Hays's rangers in their military operations against the Comanches and Mexican nationals. In 1842 in the attack on San Antonio and retreat by Mexican troops McCulloch scouted infiltrated enemy lines seeking information and participated in the battle of Salado Creek.For the next two decades he mixed his military career with other ventures. In 1843 he was elected sheriff of Gonzales and began a merchandising career there. The following year he moved his business to Seguin. During the Mexican War and afterward he served as a captain of a volunteer company guarding the Indian frontier. He became especially adept at organizing regular ranger patrols in intervals from different camps to cover a designated area. In the early 1850s McCulloch served in the state legislature both houses from Guadalupe County and at the end of the decade he accepted an appointment as United States marshal for the Eastern District of Texas. He served as a high-ranking Confederate officer during the Civil War. As Texas left the Union he assumed command of the posts on the northwestern frontier from Camp Colorado to the Red River and used Texas secessionist troops to accept the surrender of federal forces. Given the rank of colonel by the Confederate Congress McCulloch organized the First Regiment Texas Mounted Riflemen in 1861. This body of troops slowed down penetration of the western frontier by Native Americans through a system of patrols and small-scale engagements. After promotion to brigadier general McCulloch commanded the Northern Sub-District of Texas from 1863 to the end of the war. In this role he faced the threats of Indian raids and the movement of Union forces. He also had to deal with the activities of draft dodgers deserters and bushwhackers. At one time he tried unsuccessfully to arrest William Quantrill for robbery and murder. With the war ended McCulloch went home to Seguin with an armed escort for protection against deserters who swore to take his life.After the Civil War he remained in the limelight. In 1874 he assisted the newly elected governor Richard Coke in removing Edmund J. Davis from the executive offices. Early in 1876 as a reward for his years of service McCulloch was appointed superintendent of the Deaf and Dumb Asylum later the Texas School for the Deaf. Here his lax and inept administration brought about a legislative investigation that made him resign his position in 1879.Henry married to Jane Isabella Ashby on 20 August 1840. She was born 17 September 1822 at Shelby Co Kentucky. She was the daughter of John Miller Ashby and Mary Harris Garnett of Kentucky who had been early settlers in the DeWitt Colony which was centered on Gonzales Texas. The couple had a number of children most of who remained in Texas.General Henry Eustace McCulloch died on March 12 1895 at Seguin Texas and was buried in San Geronimo Cemetery. He received a full Masonic funeral having been an active freemason after the War in the Guadalupe County Lodge. His wife died the following year on 18 July 1896 at Seguin Guadalupe Co. Texas. There are 4 letters in this collection related to Henry Eustace McCulloch. Two letters are written by Henry Eustace McCulloch to his son in November 1882 and February 1895 with 2 letters written to him.Henry Ashby McCulloch 1866-1913 and wife Lola Beatrice Gaylord 1871-1944One of General McCulloch's sons his namesake was Henry Ashby McCulloch who was born 23 July 1866 at Rangers Horn Geronimo Guadalupe Co. Texas. He married on 18 April 1893 and died 22 January 1913 at Buenos Aires Argentina. The present collection is mainly concentrated on Henry his wife Lola Beatrice Gaylord their daughter Lolita "Lola" Beatrice McCulloch as well as Lolita's second husband William Alexander Sutherland and Lolita's son from her first marriage Ashby McCulloch Howard Sutherland who was adopted by Sutherland and took his stepfather's name.Henry A. McCulloch left college in 1884 on account of a shortage of funds and thus did not graduate. From November 1884 to May 1887 he was a surveyor for state lands for Texas and the railways of the western part of the state being headquartered at El Paso. He did some work at this time in the State of Chihuahua Mexico for Davis Brothers of El Paso in 1885. For the last half of 1887 he was transit man and division engineer in charge of estimates for Mexican International Railway for Sabinas to Torreon and on preliminary survey from Torreon to Durango.At the beginning of 1889 he was in the panhandle of Texas with William Walter Phelps Co. surveying 5000000 acre land grant in charge of two parties. He went to Mexico in 1890 for the purpose of working for the Wells-Fargo Company who he had been working with previously as a messenger at Eagle Pass Texas being responsible for communications between El Paso and Eagle Pass. In July of 1891 he was appointed "acting" route agent for Wells Fargo at Irapuato Guanajuato and later appointed as the route agent. In 1892 he was transferred to Monterrey and put in charge of all of Northern Mexico.During 1892 he married Lola Beatrice Gaylord. And in 1895 he was appointed general route agent with headquarters in the City of Mexico and put in charge of all outside transportation business. While living in Mexico his daughter Lola Beatrice McCulloch was born in Mexico City on 16 August 1896. In 1898 he entered the service of American Surety Company as inspector and served in that capacity and as acting general manager until mid-July 1899 when he resigned because of differences between him and the company. He was immediately given a position as the general superintendent of San Marcos and Tecolutla Railway SM&T RR placed in charge of construction and operation. He stayed in this position a short time again having differences of opinions with his superiors and resigned to take a job in November 1900 with the Mexicana Railway as commercial agent staying only a brief time before taking a job again with the SM&T RR. SM&T RR was bought out by Mexican Eastern Railway. The SM&T was then leased to a corporation called Interoceanic Railway which was owned by stockholders of the Mexican Eastern Railway. McCulloch then became the General Train Master of the Interoceanic and the General Agent of the Mexican Eastern.By 1904 he was appointed division superintendent of the Interoceanic Railway and later the same year appointed terminal superintendent for the company. Staying in Mexico he moved over to the Pan American Railroad where he was appointed the assistant general manager and became general superintendent of that company's railways in Mexico. In 1907 he was appointed general manager of Southern Railways of Peru and Dependencies under W. L. Morkill where he remained for several years before taking a position with a group of Argentine railroads. McCulloch died in Buenos Aires in 1913. There are a 338 letters and telegrams written both to and from Henry concerning his work in Central and South America with the various railroad companies he was employed by. A number of these telegrams are multiple pages written in code then translated and sent back and forth at great expense in an attempt to keep prying eyes from what the companies were doing in the way of railroads in South America.Henry A. McCulloch's wife Lola Beatrice Gaylord was born in October 1871 at Anderson Texas. She outlived her husband by nearly thirty years dying on 12 June 1944 at San Antonio Texas. She was buried at San Antonio's City Cemetery #1. She was the daughter of Edward Gaylord d. 1873 and Cornelia Bernice Milton 1849-1924. She is shown in the 1920 Census as living with her daughter Lolita and Lolita's first husband John Dewees Howard as well as her mother Cornelia Gaylord. Besides her grandson Ashby McCulloch Sutherland and her nephew William Leigh Morrow she was survived by two nieces Mrs. Sara Capers of San Antonio daughter of Eleanor Stribling Capers and Mrs. D. R. Dance of West Point New York. This archive includes 564 letters written to and from Lola Gaylord McCulloch.Lolita "Lola" McCulloch 1896-1929 and William Alexander Sutherland 1895-1929Lolita "Lola" McCulloch was born on 16 August 1896 at Mexico City Mexico. After the death of her father in 1913 the family moved back to San Antonio Texas. She was first married to John Dewees Howard 1895-1982 on 4 October 1916 at St. Mark's Episcopal Church in San Antonio Texas. Howard was the son of M. L. Howard. Her cousins Eleanor and Beatrice Stribling led the bridal party. One of the matrons was the young Mrs. Dwight D. Eisenhower herself recently married to the future president in July of 1916. However Lolita's marriage ended in divorce. Howard a salesman remarried and shows up in the 1930 Census as being married. He registered for the WWII draft but it is not clear if he served.The first marriage of Lolita produced a son Ashby McCulloch Howard. After her divorce Lolita received custody of the child and then married a second time to William Alexander Sutherland on 2 June 1926. Sutherland legally adopted the boy and the boy was given his surname and was Sutherland's heir when he died unexpectedly in 1929. Lolita's second husband William Alexander Sutherland was born in 1895. He was the manager of the Monterrey Mexico branch of the Bank of Montreal and the couple's son Ashby spent his early years living at San Antonio Texas under the care of his grandmother Lola Gaylord McCulloch.Lolita "Lola" McCulloch died on 25 March 1929 at her mother's home. She was 32 years old. She was survived by her husband William who would die in a car accident several months later her son mother an Aunt Mrs. Ben Stribling Celeste Gaylord 1874-1939 and cousins Eleanor Stribling; 1903-1985 and Mrs. D. R. Dance Beatrice Stribling 1902-1974 and William Leigh Morrow all of San Antonio. Celeste Gaylord married first Frank Morrow and second to Benjamin A. Stribling 1863-1950.Lolita's husband William Alexander Sutherland died 23 November 1929 in a car accident at Monterrey Mexico. He had remained in Mexico after the death of his wife several months earlier. His body was taken back to San Antonio where he was buried. He was survived by a sister Mrs. Russell Cruikshank of Newcastle Canada and a brother Gordon Sutherland of Monckton Canada. There are a number of letters in the archive between Gordon Sutherland and Mrs. Lola Gaylord McCulloch concerning the estate of Gordon's brother William Alexander. William Alexander Sutherland adopted Ashby Henry Howard as his son which is evidenced by documents in the archive. Ashby became the legitimate heir of Sutherland and took his surname. This archive includes 82 letters to and from Lolita McCulloch Howard Sutherland and 10 letters to and from William Alexander Sutherland.Ashby McCulloch Howard Sutherland 1921-1998Ashby McCulloch Howard Sutherland was born on 16 March 1921 at San Antonio Texas. His father was John Dewees Howard 1895-1982 the first husband of Lolita "Lola" McCulloch. After the divorce and Lolita's marriage to William Alexander Sutherland Ashby was adopted by Sutherland as his son and given his surname. Since his parents were living in Mexico when his father was working for the Bank of Montreal's Mexico City branch Ashby stayed in San Antonio and lived with his grandmother Lola Gaylord McCulloch. He continued to live with his grandmother after the premature death of both of his parents in 1929.Ashby graduated college in 1942 as the valedictorian from the University of the South Sewanee Tennessee and from Harvard Law School class of 1949. After wartime service in Europe as a U.S. Army officer he practiced at Sullivan & Cromwell before joining the International Nickel Co. New York INCO Ltd in 1954. He was an assistant to the general solicitor of the INCO Ltd. at the time of his marriage on 13 April 1956 to Marion Adair Ramsey.Marion Adair Ramsey was the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Howard Ramsey of Goliad Texas. She attended Sophie Newcomb College in New Orleans and graduated from University of Texas where she was a member of Kappa Alpha Theta. For three years before her marriage to Sutherland she was associated with the Museum of Modern Art in New York.The couple was married on 13 April 1956 at the Central Presbyterian Church in New York. After their marriage they made their home for some time in New York City. Ashby was with INCO until 1983 in New York Paris and Toronto serving in a variety of legal and management positions before retiring as a senior vice president and executive director.After Ashby retired he and his family moved back to San Antonio but spent parts of his later years in Venice and San Miguel de Allende. Ashby was a member of the Knickerbocker Club and the Harvard Club of New York City. Ashby was married from 1956 to 1972 to Marion and although they divorced in 1972 they remained close friends. Ashby McCulloch Howard Sutherland died on 5 February 1998 after suffering for about a year with Leukemia and was buried on 9 February at City Cemetery in San Antonio. Together the couple had at least two children Howard Ramsey Sutherland of London and Ramsey Sutherland Farber of Buffalo. This archive includes 226 letters to and from Ashby McCulloch Sutherland mostly written during the time he was in undergraduate school law school or in military service.Description of CollectionCorrespondence of Alexander McCulloch his son Henry Eustace McCulloch and grandson Henry Ashby McCulloch343 letters 743 pages 8 envelopes dated 1845-1913 as follows:Alexander McCulloch Sr. 1 letter 2 pp. folding letter-sheet dated Huntsville 1845 written to his wife Francis.Henry Eustace McCulloch 4 letters 10 pp. no envelopes dated 1859-1896. Of these 4 letters two were written by him to his son the other two are incoming letters. The letters to his son are dated Seguin Texas 1882 and Rockport 1896 just before he died. One of the letters addressed to him was written by his son S. L. McCulloch and dated Martindale Texas 1883 with the other incoming letter dated 6 May 1859 written by his nephew Rush McCulloch of Wilfred Texas.Henry Ashby McCulloch approximately 338 letters 731 pp. 7 envelopes dated 1876-1913. Of these letters 174 are outgoing and 164 incoming. A number of these letters are telegrams or cablegrams some long some fairly short. They include coded cablegrams with transcriptions. These letters are almost all business related and deal with McCulloch's work in Central and South America with various railroads from 1876 up to the year that he died. About half of the letters are from 1912.Correspondence of Lola Gaylord McCulloch wife of Henry Ashby McCulloch564 letters 2066 pages 309 envelopes dated 1879-1944 bulk 1920s-1940s as follows:Outgoing - 162 letters 534 pages 42 envelopes as follows:Lola G. McCulloch to her daughter Lolita 17 letters 86 pp. 6 envelopes dated 1908-1928. Some of these letters were written by Lola to her daughter Lolita when Lolita was in Montreal Canada or Corpus Christi Texas.Lola G. McCulloch to her grandson Ashby McCulloch Sutherland 27 letters 87 pp. 23 envelopes dated mostly San Antonio Texas 1921-1943 with most letters being from 1939-1943 when he was away at college in Sewanee Tennessee at the University of the South and then later at Soldier's Field Boston Massachusetts when he was in military service.Lola G. McCulloch to her sister Celeste Gaylord 4 letters 35 pp. 2 envelopes dated 1907-1913 written by McCulloch to her sister while McCulloch was either onboard a ship or in Mexico or Peru.Lola G. McCulloch to Hilyer-Deutsch-Jarrett & Co. 8 letters 18 pp. 1 envelope dated 1924-1930. Hilyer et al was a lumber company in San Antonio who McCulloch had business with concerning financial instruments between the parties. McCulloch writes from her home in San Antonio as well as from Mexico.Lola G. McCulloch to several insurance companies 13 letters 17 pp. dated 1930. Copies of letters written to several Canadian insurance companies by McCulloch concerning policies of her late son-in-law William Alexander Sutherland for her grandson Ashby McC. Sutherland.Lola G. McCulloch to Gordon Sutherland 8 letters 11 pp. 1 envelope dated 1930-1932. Copies of letters of McCulloch concerning the estate of her late son-in-law William Alexander Sutherland. Gordon Sutherland is William's brother whose estate was divided between Gordon his sister and William's son Ashby McC Sutherland.Lola G. McCulloch outgoing letters to miscellaneous correspondents 85 letters 280 pp. 9 envelopes dated 1886-1941. Mostly copies of letters sent to various individuals or companies.Incoming - 402 letters 1532 pages 267 envelopes as follows:61 letters 301 pp. 43 envelopes of family letters mother cousins nieces and nephews to Lola G. McCulloch dated 1879-1944 mostly 1920s-1940s.27 letters 43 pp. 17 envelopes of the Bank of Montreal the Union National Bank and the San Antonio Loan & Trust Co. to Lola G. McCulloch dated 1929-1940 dealing with McCulloch's finances as well as her grandson Ashby McC Sutherland who inherited half of the estate of his father William Alexander Sutherland.6 letters 22 pp. 4 envelopes of T. A. Corry of Los Gatos California to Lola G. McCulloch dated 1936-1940. Corry appears to have been a friend of McCulloch possibly a relative also on the LeNoir branch of the family. Corry appears to have been friends with the McCulloch family through his work on Peruvian Railroads.19 letters 198 pp. 18 envelopes of Dorothy Cruikshank of Newcastle New Brunswick Canada dated 1929-1940 to Lola G. McCulloch. Cruikshank was the sister of William Alexander Sutherland McCulloch's late son-in-law.11 letters 37 pp. 9 envelopes of Ariana Graves Dennison wife of James Edward Dennison. Originally born in Texas she moved to Mexico City Mexico where she writes to Lola G. McCulloch dated 1929-1943. Ariana appears to have been a friend of McCulloch. James Edward Dennison was the treasurer of the American Book & Printing Company of Mexico City.13 letters 72 pp. 10 envelopes of Charlotte St. John Elliot of Sewanee Tennessee to Lola G. McCulloch dated 1939-1943. Charlotte St. John Elliot 1870-1958 was born 24 June 1870 at Savannah Georgia to Robert W.B. and Caroline Elliott of South Carolina. Her father was a clergyman at San Antonio on the 1880 Census and this may be how Elliott came to know Lola Gaylord McCulloch. Elliott lived at Sewanee Tennessee with her lifelong companion Marie Truslow a sculptor. Charlotte was described as a "tall dignified and benevolent woman" and Truslow as "stumpy bucktoothed and vivacious." They were said to wear "long dresses black or dazzling white and heavy amber beads and pearls pendant over very ample bosoms." Elliott was friends with the southern writers Walker Percy and his cousin William Alexander Percy and her name shows up in a book about Percy Walker page 285 "The House of Percy: Honor Melancholy and Imagination in a Southern Family" by Bertram Wyatt-Brown New York & Oxford: Oxford University Press 1994 Marie Jermaine Truslow 1871-1958 Elliott's partner was a resident of Sewanee from 1924 until she died at the age of 86 in 1958. Her death came 11 days after the death of her partner Elliott on 17 February 1958. She was listed as a friend of many years to Charlotte Elliott with whom she shared a home at Sewanee.Truslow was born in Brooklyn New York 6 August 1871 the daughter of James Linklater Truslow and his wife the former Amelia Louise Adams both later of Summit New Jersey. Truslow became a sculptor of note and had studied in Florence Italy and Dresden Germany. She and Charlotte had been classmates at St. Catherine's School in Brooklyn before both went abroad to study. At the beginning of WWI they were both back in New York City and met again and together opened the Home Studio for young ladies interested in studying music and art. Elliot was a dramatic soprano and once was a member of the Metropolitan Opera Chorus. Elliott is found advertising in the New York Tribune 3 Nov 1918 and the Brooklyn Daily Eagle 23 Feb 1919 as a singing instructor. In 1924 the two women closed their school and moved to Sewanee where they purchased a home and were active in the cultural affairs of the community for many years. Elliott was the granddaughter of Bishop Elliot a principal founder of the University of the South at Sewanee the university where Ashby McCulloch Sutherland attended. After the death of the two women they were buried next to each other at the University Cemetery. The 1940 Census taken for Sewanee lists Truslow as "head" of the household and Charlotte's relationship to her as "friend." An earlier census in 1930 listed Charlotte as "partner" to the head of house which was Truslow.16 letters 19 pp. 6 envelopes dated 1924-1934 of Hilyer-Deutsch-Jarrett & Co. Hilyer et al was a lumber company in San Antonio who McCulloch had business with concerning financial instruments between the parties.14 letters 17 pp. dated 1913- 1930 mostly 1930 of several insurance companies concerning mainly the estate/policy of William Alexander Sutherland McCulloch's late son-in-law and the inheritance of her grandson Ashby McC Sutherland.17 letters 87 pp. 12 envelopes dated 1929-1944 of Alice Caruthers Reed of Charlotte and Durham North Carolina to Lola G. McCulloch. Alice appears to be a friend of McCulloch. She was born in Mexico the daughter of a physician. Her father lived at San Antonio as did Alice before she married George L. Reed an accountant with a chemical company and moved to Virginia and then later to North Carolina.18 letters 34 pp. 10 envelopes dated 1930-1934 of Gordon Sutherland to Lola G. McCulloch. Sutherland is the brother of McCulloch's late son-in-law William Alexander Sutherland. The letters mostly concern the estate of Sutherland and the inheritance of McCulloch's grandson Ashby McC Sutherland.16 letters 66 pp. 11 envelopes dated 1929-1943 of "Suzie" of Mexico City Mexico to Lola G. McCulloch. Suzie lives in Mexico City. She appears to be a friend of the McCulloch family.184 letters 636 pp. 127 envelopes dated 1884-1943 incoming letters from various individuals to Lola G. McCulloch. The letters consist of correspondence from many friends and associates business or otherwise.Correspondence of Lolita McCulloch Howard Sutherland daughter of Lola Gaylord McCulloch and Henry Ashby McCulloch82 letters 388 pp. 60 envelopes dated 1906-1928 as follows:Outgoing - 52 letters 221 pp. 31 envelopes as follows:22 letters 115 pp. 15 envelopes dated 1906-1918 the bulk from 1914-1915. Letters written by Lolita to her parents from Mexico Washington D.C. New York NY and elsewhere.26 letters 98 pp. 14 envelopes dated 1924-1928. Letters written by Lolita to her son Ashby McCulloch Sutherland when she was living in Mexico or visiting Canada and her son was living with Lolita's mother Lola Gaylord McCulloch in San Antonio Texas. Lolita's husband William Alexander Sutherland was working for a branch of the Bank of Montreal located in Mexico City Mexico.4 letters 8 pp. 2 envelopes dated 1909-1910. Letters written by Lolita to others.Incoming - 30 letters 167 pp. 29 envelopes as follows:30 incoming letters 167 pp. written by various individuals to Lolita McCulloch Howard Sutherland dated 1913-1924. The bulk of the letters were written to Lolita in 1915 when she was living at San Antonio Texas. The letters are written by friends cousins and male romantic interests.Correspondence of William Alexander Sutherland husband of Lolita McCulloch Howard Sutherland father of Ashby McCulloch Sutherland10 letters 39 pp. 2 envelopes dated 1928-1929. Of these 11 letters there are 3 outgoing by Sutherland dated 1928-1929 and 7 incoming to him dated 1928-1929. One of the outgoing letters is to his son Ashby the other 2 are business related. The 7 incoming letters appear to be both family and business.Correspondence of Ashby McCulloch Sutherland son of Lolita McCulloch and William Alexander Sutherland226 letters 689 pp. 227 envelopes dated 1928-1944 as follows:Outgoing - 177 letters 520 pp. 152 envelopes as follows:165 letters 496 pp. 144 envelopes dated 1930-1944 written by Sutherland to his grandmother Lola G. McCulloch who became his legal guardian after the death of his parents in 1929 when he was 8 years old. Most of the letters were written by Sutherland when he was away at college at Sewanee Tennessee attending the University of the South 1938-1942 or when he was at Harvard Law 1942-1943 at Cambridge Massachusetts or in military service 1943-1944 at Soldier's Field Boston West Springfield Massachusetts or at Camp Lee Virginia and Camp Ellis Illinois.12 letters 24 pp. 8 envelopes dated 1928-1929 written by Sutherland to his parents William Alexander Sutherland and Lolita McCulloch Sutherland. These letters were written by Sutherland when he was a child living at his grandmother's in San Antonio Texas and his parent were living in Mexico or visiting Canada.5 letters 10 pp. 2 envelopes dated 1938-1941 written to friends or family.Incoming - 89 letters 169 pp. 75 envelopes as follows:89 letters 169 pp. 75 envelopes dated 1932-1944 some undated. All of these 89 letters are written to Ashby when he was either away at college or in military service or when he was on break at home in San Antonio. These letters were written classmates friends in military service college administrators as well as family aunts cousins etc. and women who were perhaps romantic interests before he finally married in the 1950s.Correspondence of Celeste Gaylord Morrow Stribling39 letters 173 pp. 26 envelopes dated 1908-1937 as follows:26 letters 120 pp. 17 envelopes dated 1908-1937 written by Stribling to her sister Lola G. McCulloch.13 letters 53 pp. 9 envelopes dated 1913-1937 written by Stribling to her mother and family members.Correspondence of John Dewees Howard 1st husband of Lolita McCulloch Sutherland3 letters 8 pp. 3 envelopes dated 1917-1930. Two of these letters are written to Howard; the other one is written by him to his wife Lolita McCulloch Howard later Lolita McCulloch Sutherland after she divorced Howard and remarried Sutherland.Miscellaneous Letters of the McCulloch and Sutherland families166 letters 363 pp. 12 envelopes dated 1867-1943. These letters are written to and from various individuals some correspondents are relatives of the McCulloch and Sutherland families others not. Some are apparent copies but not signed thus not knowing who wrote them. A number are from the 19th Century and deal with the Milton family relatives of Lola Gaylord McCulloch's mother Cornelia Bernice Milton Gaylord.Address Books Diaries Expense Accounts Memorandum and Notebooks:3 address books 33 42 29 pp. one measures 3 Â¼" x 5 Â¼" bound in black leather dated 1909 anothermeasures 2 Â¾" x 5" flip top binding bound in calf not dated c. 1910 and the third states it belonged to "Lola B. Gaylord McCulloch San Antonio TX" and measures 4" x 6 Â¼" bound in stiff black cloth.1 diary 117 pp. measures 4 Â¾" x 6" bound in crumbling leatherette dated 1926 five year diary only one year used diary mostly written in the first half of year. Diary appears to be kept by a female with a boyfriend or fiancÃ© named "Bill."1 diary of Ashby McCulloch Sutherland measures 5 Â½" x 7" bound in puffy cheap leather dated 1 July to 2 Sep. 1935. Diary is a five year diary but our diarist only kept a couple of months in 1935.1 diary 5 pp measures 4" x 6 Â½" bound in cloth dated 1-11 Jan. 1921 possibly written by John Dewees Howard or a relative of Lolita McCulloch as it mentions Lolita and she would have been married to Howard in Jan 1921.1 expense account book 53 pp. measures 4" x 6 Â½" bound in red flexible leather dated 1910-1911 documents monthly expenses servants wages foodstuffs washing governess shoe repairs school expenses etc. Presumably the accounts of Lola Beatrice Gaylord McCulloch or her husband H. A. McCulloch.1 notebook 12 pp. measures 4" x 6 Â¾" bound in paper used by someone to keep music lesson notes not dated.1 notebook 2 pp measures 4 Â¼" x 6 Â¾" bound in flexible cloth front wrapper states "H.A. McCulloch Register Silver" and contains two page lists of the "silver" owned by McCulloch silverware pots cups plates etc and the values.Photographs:Approximately 942 photographs various sizes from small snapshots measuring 2" x 3" to large portraits at 10" x 12" some photos from Mexico Texas California many of family members some of industry or businesses some are labeled many not some dated many not all are black and white good condition dated circa 1890-1940s but undated photos could be older. Counted within this photograph total are 20 cabinet card photos 14 cdv's 2 tin types 1 negative and two small photograph albums.Ephemera:Approximately 1400 pieces of printed and manuscript ephemera dated 1836-1944 with bulk being from 1910s -1940s as followsPostcards: 129 postcards used mostly incoming postcards to Mrs. H. A. McCulloch from her grandson Ashby McCulloch Howard Sutherland with several to her daughter Lolita son-in-law John Dewees Howard and to Ashby McCulloch Howard Sutherland from others dated c.1910-1943.47 real photo postcards some used some not of the used cards they are dated c. 1909-1939 unused cards possibly dated earlier.Telegrams: 49 telegrams dated c1900-1940 mostly written to H.A. McCulloch or his grandson Ashby McCulloch Howard Sutherland most written to H.A. McCulloch in 1911 some were written to Sutherland when he was in college at the University of the South.Manuscript & Printed Ephemera:5 Certificates: National Honor Society Secondary Schools San Antonio Texas 1935; Junior High School Diploma San Antonio Texas 1937; Diploma Senior High School San Antonio Texas 1938; Membership Phi Gamma Mu Tennessee Beta Chapter University of the South 1941; Diploma from University of the South. 1942.47 legal documents including: wills estate papers property deeds insurance policies contracts etc. of the McCulloch family dated circa 1836-1942 with most being from 1908-1942 with 9 of the documents being in Spanish and dated 1895-1929.102 manuscript pp. various miscellaneous notes jottings recipes verse etc.103 calling cards business cards or invitations.80 manuscript documents related to schooling such as exams tests essays report cards circulars appearing to be of Henry Ashby McCulloch and his grandson Ashby McCulloch Howard Sutherland dated circa 1880s-1940s.22 medical receipts from doctors for service on Mrs. John D. Howard Lolita McCulloch Sutherland; Ashby Howard Sutherland; William A. Sutherland; Mrs. H.A. McCulloch.84 pieces of manuscript receipts and accounts dated 1830s-1930s for McCulloch and allied families.51 printed pieces of ephemera such as circulars advertisements brochures etc.123 pieces of banking ephemera such as bank statements cancelled checks bank receipts etc. mostly of Mrs. H.A. Lola Gaylord McCulloch and her son Ashby McCulloch Howard Sutherland.61 general receipts for clothing hotels food books Quaritch funeral taxes etc. a number of them on letterhead dated 1909-194175 newspaper/magazine clippings some concern McCulloch/Sutherland family such as the auto accident in Mexico that killed Alexander Sutherland.35 typed pages various items verse translations of coded telegrams family history etc.204 greeting cards mostly written to Mrs. H. A. McCulloch and her grandson Ashby McCulloch Howard Sutherland dated circa 1924-1944.168 used envelopes likely separated from letters within this collection.Miscellaneous Ephemera: 2 pairs of Masonic white gloves; 1 Masonic apron; 1 used worn black leather wallet inscribed "E.H. Gaylord." books

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Michael Wadleigh director; Crosby Stills & Nash Richie Havens The Who Sly and the Family Stone Jimi Hendrix starringABAA

Woodstock Original photograph from the set of the 1970 film

1969145938N.p.: Warner Brothers 1969. Vintage studio photograph on the set of the 1970 film. director Michael Wadleigh with an unidentified crew member. The iconic documentary of the 1969 three day music festival near Bethel New York which attracted an audience of more than 300000 people. Winner of the Academy Award for Best Documentary and nominated for two more. Shot on location in Bethel New York. 9.25 x 7.25 inches. Very Good plus light edgewear and light creasing. National Film Registry. Rosenbaum 1000. Ebert III. Warner Brothers unknown books

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Archive of Correspondence and Ephemera of Maud Bauer Miller of Newark Ohio and Oakland California her children and their spouses 1881-1980

30571Collection of 123 letters 437 manuscript and typed pages 95 retained mailing envelopes dated 1881-1980 the bulk dating from 1920-1949; also includes over 100 pieces of related ephemera pertaining to the family including photographs postcards telegrams family genealogy vital records greeting cards etc. Maud Bauer Miller 1863-1942 and FamilyMaud M. Bauer was born on 15 September 1863 in Alfred Center New York. She was the daughter of Thomas Dodson Bauer and his wife Hannah S. Sherman. Bauer and his wife were professors at Alfred University at the time of their daughter Maud's birth. Maud's mother Hannah was born 9 December 1828 and married Maud's father on 25 December 1860 in New Albany Indiana. Hannah died 17 June 1910 in Somerville Massachusetts. She had been a teacher and knew seven languages. Hannah was the daughter of Samuel Sherman and Malinda Stanton; Samuel Sherman was the son of Peleg Sherman and Hannah Willett; Hannah Willett was the daughter of Samuel Willett 1751-1843 and Elizabeth Andreas; Samuel Willett served in the American Revolution as a private in Capt. Jone's Company Col. Taylor's Regiment. Documents in this collection show Maud and others in the Miller family sought induction into the Daughters of the American Revolution or other lineage societies.Maud M. Bauer moved with her parents to Newark Ohio where she attended the Old Central High School from which she graduated in 1879. She taught her first school at Loyd's on the Jacksontown Pike and later was a teacher at the Perryton School Ohio here she met her future husband Lebbeus D. Miller they were married on 23 March 1882 at the Pilgrim Congregational Church Newark Ohio by the Rev. E.J. Jones. Maud worked as a stenographer at a utility company. She was also active in the Women's Christian Temperance Union and took her oath from temperance reformer and women's suffragist Francis Willard 1839-1898 the national president of the WCTU and its founder.Lebbeus Dunn Miller was born 11 May 1858 in Perryton Ohio. He was the youngest son of Joseph Miller and Elizabeth Custer 1812-1888. His grandfather was supposed to have been one Robert Miller of Pennsylvania who served in the War of 1812. The Oakland artist-poet Joaquin Miller also claimed to have a grandfather named Robert Miller from Pennsylvania who served in the War of 1812. Maud's family believed they may have been related to Joaquin Miller but it has not been proven. A pamphlet in the collection about Joaquin Miller's estate "The Heights" in Oakland has manuscript annotations and notes by Maud Bauer Miller detailing the estates history and Joaquin Miller's life. The pamphlet was given to Maud by Juanita Miller Joaquin Miller's daughter. Lebbeus Miller Maud's husband was the great-great grandson of Sarah Ball Custer the sister of President George Washington's wife Martha Ball Washington. There is only one letter in this collection by Lebbeus Miller. The collection mainly revolves around Maud Bauer Miller and her children and their correspondence with each other.Maud and Lebbeus Miller had at least nine children: Walter Miller 1883- died young; Frank Stanton Miller 1884-1935; Amie Glen Miller 1886-1958 who married a Mr. Phillips; Sherman Miller died in infancy; Floyd Rudolph Miller 1889-1940 there are a couple of photos of him in the collection; Lorena Eleanor Miller 1893-1960 resided at St. Louisville Ohio she married a Mr. Tiebout; Carl Frederick Miller 1896-1967 resided at Frazeysburg Ohio and married a woman named Agnes and they had a daughter Kathleen. There are a number of letters in this collection by Carl Frederick Miller and his wife Agnes as well as letters of Lorena Miller and Frank Stanton Miller.Another of Lebbeus and Maud's daughters was Cecelia Esther Miller 1899-1978 she was born in Perry Township Licking Co. Ohio. She attended Perry Township High School graduating in 1916 and moved to Oakland California with her mother in 1921 where she met and married Jesse "Jack" Howard Cole. Cole was born 9 March 1900 in Buncombe Co. North Carolina and married Cecelia in Oakland on 8 November 1926. Jack Cole died on 5 January 1961 in Oakland. He served in WWI enlisting in 1916 and was discharged in 1919 as a corporal with the 115th Machine Gun Battalion. He saw action in WWI with the AEF in occupation Ypres Salient Belgium Veormeze Le-Mont Kemmel engagement; Bellicourt-Nauroy; Premont-Vasch Andigny Engagement; Selfe River; and remained in Germany for occupation purposes. There are a number of letters in this collection by and to Cecelia Miller and her husband Jack Cole.Maud and Lebbeus' youngest daughter was Evelyn Elizabeth Miller. She was born 2 February 1905 in Perry Township Licking Co. Ohio and died in 1974. She also moved to Oakland California with her mother Maud and sister Cecelia. Evelyn graduated from the Oakland Technical High School in June 1923 and went to work for Western Power Company in Oakland California as a stenographer and later was promoted secretary to the Division Electric Superintendent. She was married at the age of 22 in Oakland on 31 November 1927 to Justin Francis Greene. He was born 30 Oct 1900 Johnson Co. Texas and died 10 August 1961 in San Francisco. He was the son of Arthur Percival Greene born Texas and Laura Richardson born Oklahoma of Johnson Co. Texas. Greene later moved to Oakland California. Greene was a veteran of WWI and WWII. He enlisted in U.S. Navy for WWI 1918-1921 and Marine Crops in WWII 1942-1946 and wound up in the Quartermaster's Department in San Diego California. After the war he worked for the accounting department of P.G. & E. Pacific Gas & Electric he had previously worked for Western Power Company which is where he met his wife Evelyn Miller. Great Western Power merged with P.G. & E. There are a good many letters in this collection by and to Evelyn Miller and her husband Justin Greene.Maud Bauer Miller had a brother Ralph Sherman Bauer 1867-1941. He was the proprietor of "The R.S. Bauer Company: Stationers Engravers & Printers" of Lynn Massachusetts. He later became mayor of Lynn. He married Fannie Miller daughter of John Miller shipbuilder of Chicago Illinois. They had one son Paul Sherman Bauer who married Kathrine Williams daughter of Judge Guy R. Williams of Havana Illinois. Paul Sherman Bauer attended Phillips Andover then Harvard Engineering School. There are letters in this collection by Ralph Sherman Bauer 5 and his son Paul S. Bauer 1.Maud also had a sister Hulda Sherman Bauer 1870- who married a Mr.Emmel/Emmal of Glenwood New Jersey and a second sister Marie Sherman Bauer 1873-1948 who married Francis A. Neff Jr. of Salem Massachusetts. There is one letter in this collection by Hulda Sherman Bauer.Lebbeus Miller died 24 September 1913 and after some time Maud moved to Oakland California in 1921 where she died 11 June 1942.Description and Inventory of Collection: Correspondence: The letters in this collection are written by and to various members of Maud Bauer Miller's family including Maud Bauer Miller her husband Lebbeus Miller and their children and children's spouses as well as her grandchildren including: Evelyn Miller and Justin Greene her husband; Cecelia Miller and her husband Jesse Jack Cole; Carl Miller and his wife Agnes Lorena Miller as well as Maud Bauer Miller's brother Rudolph Ralph Sherman Bauer and her sister Hulda Bauer. Other relatives are Paul S. Bauer Fred Emma Sherman and Maud's grandchildren Dorothy and Frances Miller.The bulk of the letters were written by Cecelia Miller Cole 23 and Carl Miller and his wife Agnes 30 and Evelyne Miller Greene and her husband Justin 17 the bulk of these letters were written to Maud Bauer Miller 56. The collection includes letters by Evelyn Miller Greene and her husband Justin 49 as well as Cecelia Miller Cole and her husband 7. There are also letters written by Maud Bauer Miller 8 Ralph Sherman Bauer 5 Frank Miller 3 Dorothy and Frances Miller 2 Paul S. Bauer 1 and other relatives friends business associates; as well as other letters received by Ralph S. Bauer Hannah Sherman Bauer Lebbeus Miller Esther Miller Lorena Miller etc.An inventory of the letters and the years they were written follows: 7 letters 33 manuscript pp. dated from 1881-1918 of these 7 early letters 5 were written by Maud Bauer Miller to her brother Ralph S. Bauer 2 her husband Lebbeus Miller 2 and her mother Hannah Sherman Bauer 1.There are 36 letters 134 manuscript and typed pages dated 1920-1929 9 of which are typed. There are 39 letters 119 manuscript and typed pages dated 1931-1939 18 letters are typed. The 75 letters in these two groups contain letters between the Miller family members and represent a good bulk of the collection. The letters written in the 1930s provide a look at conditions in the Great Depression with people out of work work hard to find and the struggles of people to survive even when employed.The collection includes 19 letters 82 manuscript and typed pages dated 1941-1949 2 letters are typed. These letters from the 1940s contain letters by Justin Greene husband of Evelyn Miller Maud's daughter when he was in military service during World War II. There is also much correspondence during this period between Maud's daughters' families the Greene and Cole families who were living in Newark Ohio Cole family and Oakland California Greene family and includes descriptions of travel vacation etc. and correspondence between the family members spouses etc.The 1960s are represented by 13 letters 39 manuscript and typed pages dated 1960-1967 and finally there are 9 letters 30 manuscript pages dated from 1974-1980 with all of which are hand written. The 1960s features correspondence between the family of Carl and Agnes Miller and Evelyne and Justin Greene.Ephemera:15 miscellaneous pieces of ephemera includes receipts typed and manuscript verse military papers pamphlets including: "White's Biography Brochures: Ralph Sherman Bauer" 1927 and "About 'The Heights' at Oakland California" by Juanita Miller given by Juanita Miller to Maud Bauer Miller 1921 it is annotated with manuscript notes by Maud to her children concerning Joaquin Miller the western artist and poet with whom they may have been related to however given the vagaries of Joaquin Miller's life and genealogy it is unclear.58 typed pp. of genealogical notes on the Miller/Bauer/Sherman families some copies of others.17 newspaper clippings mostly dealing with family such as death notices news etc.19 various vital records births deaths marriages etc. for Miller/Bauer/Sherman families various dates.2 telegrams dated 1949 4 black and white photographs 3 dated 1921-1922 one not dated various sizes 3 photos labeled other not 2 photos of Floyd R. Miller 1 of Evelyn Anna and their mother in San Francisco California.3 postcards dated 1936 to Mr. and Mrs. Justin Greene from Agnes other.4 invitations/cards date c1892-192658 greeting cards to and from Bauer/Sherman/Miller families mostly not dated.13 used envelopes likely could be matched to letters in collection.Examples of Correspondence:"Perryton Ohio Sept 29th 1884Dear RudolphI rec'd your postal in due time and hasten to reply to it. You must excuse my silence I have hardly found time to sleep this summer. On the 19th of this month we had a hard earthquake shock it shook our house badly knocking down pictures it was accompanied by a loud rumbling report. On last Saturday the 27th inst. we were visited by a terrific cyclone it lasted not over five minutes that is the worst of it; but during that time it did a great deal of damage. I had noticed in the afternoon that a storm was gathering and about half past five I went to the other end of town on an errand thinking that I could return before the rain. I did not stay much over a minute at the house and when I came out I noticed a strange cloud in the north west it had grown very dark the sky seemed almost black save this one cloud which was of a luminous gray color. It was cone shaped like this drawing of a cyclone shape and was moving at a fearful rate not more than 15 feet above the ground that is its lower edge it came rolling and tumbling sweeping everything before it. I ran for dear life to get home for I thought that we were all to be killed and I wanted to be with Leb and Baby but I could not outrun the storm it was on me before I knew it. The street was thickly lined with shade trees all the way until within a short distance from our house; when I reached this cleared space I could hear the trees crashing behind me; and a gust from another direction was blowing against me. My breath gave out before I reached home and I had to turn in at Mr. Beabout's next door. I got inside the gate just as Mr. Berry's house across the street went crashing down. Our barn and Mrs. Bland's stable are flat on the ground. Mr. Berry's house is demolished a dozen or more barns sheep houses houses &c. are ruined right in town; the Disciple Church is pronounced unsafe in an apple orchard back of us but 2 or 3 trees are left. Our old shop had a large portion of its roof rafters and all taken. Some of the weatherboarding is blown off of our house. But I don't think of that I am glad that none of us were killedâ€¦We send love to all. Write soon Maud""Perryton Ohio Sept 2 1900Dear MammaI received your very welcome letter as I would have rec'd one from the dead. I have written to all of the folks in rotation and have heard from not one letter until receiving your postal. How is Hulda's health this summer I did hope that I would be able to come "East." This summer but that ever-ready question of finance bobbed up and stopped me. I hope that I will be able to come home before I get so old that I can't travel. We are straining every nerve to get a good stock of goods in our store; we have 5 times as much as when you were here. Frank goes to Newark tomorrow to work in the glass-house if he likes it he will stay about 3 mos. and then go to school. We could not spare Floyd for this reason and then I do not think that you ought to keep house. You would have to have some one to prepare and make you eat your meals at the proper time; you cannot stand the same system of recuperation that you did twenty years ago. Floyd is only a child and has a healthy boy's appetite I doubt if you could cook enough in one day to last him a day.We do not intend to stay here all our lives when we have a good chance to sell out we will do so. Now Mamma don't live by yourself. I expect that you have as nearly a perfect home with the girls as you will ever have on earth. "Such polite well-bred children no smoking no drinking no hard or sordid work." No tired out cross worked down women. I know of few such homes. I am always glad to have you with me why not come here To be sure there is nothing inviting in my surroundings but I would give you filial respect. I wish that you would send me one of your dictionaries the next time Rudo sends me anything. Do you think that Frank could find employment with his uncle He is a careful & trusty clerk; his whole trend is to become a businessman he does not care for the professions. I think that Floyd will make a professional man he is just about lazy enoughâ€¦We have a large filtered cistern just adjoining the back porch and a double floored porch over it 12 x 14 ft. I have had a great quantity of water all summer enough for every purpose & for Mrs. McCann's use to as long as she lived there. The old Dr. died the last of July and she broke up housekeeping right away. She is going to New York about the first of Oct. to spend the winter with her daughter Addie a Bellevue nurse. Dr. Cullison has been on a 'tear' nearly all summer. He uses opium & drinks hard with it and every so often he goes 'stark staring mad.' Drunk I call it for that is what it is.Mr. Blount's son Scott who left his wife & ran off with $200 of his firm's money has married again down in Tenn. His wife got a divorceâ€¦We all send love & kisses to you allâ€¦Lovingly Maud""170 St. Botolph St. Boston Mass.My dear Sister & BrotherI received your welcomed letter at the hospital sometime ago and was so glad to hear from you personally although I hear indirectly thru Mamma about you & Jack and I am glad to hear that you are both well and seem to be so happy.I am out of the hospital but unable to go to work at present but I will have to do something as soon as I can get hold of a line which is very hard right now and get to work or go on the street as I am only getting $5 a week from the Welfare and I can't eat and pay room rent on that so you see how I am situated so that's the reason.I expect you will think I have one hell of a nerve but dear sister I am going to ask you to advance the money and pay this quarterly ins premium again for me which I shall absolutely refund you in six or eight weeks unless something drastic happens to me and unless this is paid at once I will hose it altogether which I do not want to unless absolutely have to. I know there is not much left of it but there is enough to bury me with should any thing happen and at present that is all I have left to do this job should I pass out.I have borrowed on it now all that it is possible for me to borrow but as I say it will leave me enough for a half decent burial in case anything should happen. Hoping you will attend to his at once for me and I will surely repay you thanking you both and hoping this will find you both in best of health love & best wishes to you both your loving brother Frank""R.S. Bauer Company Lynn Massachusetts Stationers Engravers Printers August 17 1923 Dear Sister:I was very glad indeed to hear from you under date of August 10th and to know that your family were getting along so splendidly. The thing now for you to do is to show a little mercy to yourself. The children have all now received from you everything that a Mother could give and many things more than a Mother generally gives and it seems to me that what little time is allotted to you should be taken in as much comfort as possible. Both you and I are growing old this earth and with that in sight I think it is the duty of both of us to let up on ourselves and serve the rest of our time as easily as possible.You know I am not much of a letter writer. I don't believe Fannie ever got six letters from me in the thirty years we have been married but that should not make any difference between us.I do not know anything about the Neff family except that I suppose they are alive and well as they never visit us. The only time I ever see them is when I go over to Salem and force myself into their presence.Huldah is not very well although she keeps happy and busy with her grandchildren. We expect her to spend Sunday after next with us at the little farm we own in Amesbury where we spend the summer time. It is a twenty-one-acre place on the border of a Lake. We have six acres in garden and raise almost everything the household needs up there including a little 'hell.'It seems to me that Warren Harding died in order to tie the American people closer together and bring out the universal spirit of reverence for men who have served the Nation which spirit was rapidly disappearing in all directions. You probably know that all progress the World has ever made has been the result of some shock. It seems that people no matter how civilized or well educated or Christianized they may be respond always nobly to the 'gospel of the shock' and are not so early in responding to any other gospel.Calvin Coolidge has visited us at our summer home with his wife and two children and I have a personal acquaintance with him. He will make a great President. There is no doubt about it as he has all the qualities of World Leadership without any of the personal magnetism or 'bull' that men in public life general possess. His heart and head are 100% all right and his capacity is marvelous. With best wishes to you and the children from all of us Rudo""Frazeysburg Ohio Nov 4th 1923Dear Mothers & SlatsYou want to call in the neighbors doctors & friends as your son has a pen in his handâ€¦I have been busy this summer and fall lots of work. I have been away from home most of the summer started in the first of April and came home to stay two wks ago and have been gone five days of that time. I had to cut the gang that I have been working all summer back to fifteen men was working between 34 & 40. The oil business sure is on the bum here. I wish you would have them to strike dry holes out there as the Cal. oil can be sent to the eastern refineries for less money than the oil here. We have lots of work but are doing just what we can with the men we haveâ€¦Mother you were asking about the house & Keylor's. Kelyor's moved out the first of Oct. and I haven't any renter now. I have the house up for sale and I think mother that the way things are and the location that if you can get $600.00 out of your home you had better let it go and I will say if the house belonged to me that if I could get $500 I would sell because the house will have to be painted in the Spring & I am afraid it will have to be roofed. If you will leave it to me to make the deal and use my own judgement I may be able to sell. I told you what I would take if it were mine. If you think this not enough let me know. Houses are renting in Perrytown for $3.50 & $4.00 per month so you will have an idea what things are like over there. I don't know whether Agnes told you that I lowered the rent in Apr. for Kelyor I cut it back to $6.00 and that was about a $1.50 more than any other house was renting for and this is not hearsay but personal inquiry. Please consider these things and let me know where I standâ€¦How is the K.K.K. in Cal It is getting to be pretty strong around here. They held a big conclave at Zanesville last night I went down to get me some new harness and saw the paradeâ€¦ I will close with lots of loveâ€¦Carl Agnes & Kathleenâ€¦""Kansas City Mo. June 6 1927Dear Mama & Evelyn:I never have heard from you since you went to Russian River therefore I am wondering how your trip panned out.I didn't write you the day I should because I did some very special work for two attorneys from Washington D.C. three & a half days last week & as it was rush work I was kept on the jump. They have a big case to try in Federal Court today & for two or three days so my work is thru. However in those 3 Â½ days I made $25.00 but had to rent a typewriter to take home to do the work on so I got it for a month & it was $4.00 but yet that was pretty good pay I'll say and they were so pleased & appreciative of my work.I do hope I get steady work soon but the weather is so bad â€“ it is raining today again and these Missourians are sure afraid to start anything in the rain. Also the flood has caused a great depression in work. However we will persevere I guess and we will get settled somedayâ€¦Let us hear from you soon just a noteâ€¦We both are fine. Jack's Colonel had to take an 18-day sick leave due to the accident he had three weeks ago so Jack is left alone with all the medical units to care for so I fear he is going to be very busy. Lots of love to you both Cecelia & Jackâ€¦""9 Sunnyside St. Jamaica Plain Oct 23 1931Dear GrandmaWe received your letter and was glad to hear from you. We are glad to hear that you have been able to take a vacation. Yes I am working in the same place and Frances is working for the Fire Underwriters. She works in the office. We are sorry that our father has had such bad luck but it seems that every time he goes to the Hospital that his women always leave him because he doesn't have any money to give them. If he had been living a good Christian life he wouldn't have all this trouble now. Naturally we should be loyal to our Mother for all the care she gave us when my father was so mean to her. She brought us up to be what we are now and we should really be a credit to her. We are sorry to hear that Uncle Floyd is having a hard time with his business. It is terrible here in Boston. So many are out of work. Most of us are just lucky enough to keep our jobs. I hope that things will be easier for everybody soon. We are having such changeable weather lately. So many people have got colds. Well we hope you are in the best of health and wish the others the same with love and regards to the rest your granddaughters Dorothy & Frances.""Frazeysburg â€“ O 4/10 1932Dear Mother & Allâ€¦I have been very busy for the past three weeks and have quite a bit of work a head of me. How is business out there Things are getting worse here every day. I am still holding my job but don't know for how long. I have orders to cut off four of my men the 15th of April. The oil business in Ohio is shot for a long while cannot compete with the Western fields. I hope that Evelyn & Justin can still keep their positions. Tiebout has been working most of the time since the first of the year. So we have not seen or heard much of them. We have had sickness most of the winter. I started the ball rolling when I had the flu. I lost 4 days work the first time I have been off for six years of course I was paid but I hate to have my record brokenâ€¦Our company has been taking over some production that the Lenard Oil & Gas Co has had connected and has made a lot of extra work for me. I just finished a new gathering system & built a pumping station over back of Staddens Bridge. I am just starting a new gathering system u at Perryton my old home town on brother Joseph Chaney farm. So you see with having to entertain Joseph & look after my work I will be very busy. I hope that Floyd & Anna can come out of this slump with flying colors. Tell them just to take it easy and just make a living and be satisfied there isn't any use of them trying to build up a big fortune just for their kids to fight over. If they can't make anything they needn't to worry for they have lots of company. I have the same size pay check coming in every 2 wks and haven't saved anything for 2 yrs but greens are coming on now so I guess we will have something to eat.â€¦With lots of love from the whole family to Mother Slats & Justin Your scribbling son & all Carl Agnes Kathleen & Pee Wee""March 10 1933My dear folks all:I received your nice letter the other day and one hasn't much to write about or think of now except the national situation but somehow and someway I am sure that none of us will go hungry. Don't you worry about us back here and we are not going to worry about you folks but just rust in things coming back within a short time. Rome wasn't built in a day and the President has to have time to put into effect a new deal and a new policy. Now don't laugh for it is really a serious situation. But let's give him a chance to do right and perhaps if they make him a King or Mussolini or something he can do something and the Lord above knows that our Congress will never get us anywhere so give the President free reins and his chance to do something. I am for you Franklin if you make a go of it and will even vote for your reelection if you bring this country out of it but I fear he cannot stand the strain and will not be with us that many years longer.Poor Jack is dumbfounded being a Southerner by birth and just having recently returned from the South where his folks sort of rechristened him a Democrat and made him believe that Roosevelt was our Savior etc. all this after I had Jack made a pretty good Republican for the past six years all my work wasted in vain after his Mother and Sisters etc. told him Roosevelt was great. He doesn't know what to think and of course cannot get to me to talk personally but just has to write his ideas etc. after the banks closed but he is trying to cheer me up and yet deep down in his heart he says that what I told him last summer would happen if Hoover was not re-elected if just about all coming true right the first ten days of the Democratic administration. However Jacks says he is a good sport and if Roosevelt saves the country and brings us out of this without suffering too much and makes things better I must become a Democrat but if Roosevelt fails and has to call on Republicans etc. to help him out of this crisis then Jack is never to speak to another Democrat ha!Anyways folks here is what all of us connected with our organization have figured out. If you are paid 20% cash and rest checks do not spend on cent of the cash but hide it some safe place and pass every payroll check immediately on to the grocer baker candlestick maker etc. Don't hold a check a minute. Now Evelyn and Justin I am not sure whether our mortgage read that you had to pay gold tender or not but be most certain that you get a separate receipt for every cent you pay on your mortgage and hold on to those receipts. Don't let any ifs or ands get into the receipt either. Either they take your checks or they don't and get your receipt to these checks. If you get paid in small denomination checks buy so you may get back a little silver and then use another check for the next purchase etc. until you get every check out of your hands. Even buy your next winter coats underwear shoes new tires and everything possible that you can get them to take the checks that is payroll checks for and get yourself all fixed up. Buy all the groceries possible with such checks and store them away. Things in cans and that will keep. The theory is if worse comes to worse have some things on hand to eat and have those checks in some other fellows' hand and then your employer is responsible for the payroll checks or Roosevelt is or anyone but you.Do the same way with the new money they issue and don't hold on to it but buy with it for all you can and pay on your mortgage with it if they will take it pay your insurance taxes etc. but do not hoard it for when the new money is finally called in unless a precedent is set it will be discounted and the ones holding it will get about 35 c on the dollar for all they have in their possession. However some new laws or other may off set these prophesies but pay for everything with those checks and save every cent of currency you get quarters halves etc. And don't keep from buying things you need because next year things will be so high you will not be able to buy them so fix up the car the house lay in grocers and get yourselves underwear coats suits dresses etc. to do for another year if you can possible do so with this new money you might be paid with.However it usually takes all we make to live on as a rule but at that we are passing it on and will not be caught with it on hand. Mother has a hobby about holding onto checks and that is why I warned you about returning my little Kansas City checks immediately and not hold on to them for I was afraid this would be coming. I had no idea that Mother was holding onto any other checks or would have warned her also. We weren't the only ones; millions and millions are in the same boat and if only we all eat that is the main thing.Now don't worry about us back here because we aren't going to worry about you. We know we all are pulling together and don't' knock the President for heaven's sake. That will ruin the country if we do and don't help him during this crisis now that it is on.Do you all notice that Herbert Hoover is remaining in the East Wonder who is insisting that he remain there There is much hopes here that he is being asked by Wall Street or other financiers to remain near until this passes over and that is why he did not go on to California with Mrs. Hoover. He may have to save us yet.All love to each of you and the best of luck Your devoted children Cecelia & Jackâ€¦""December 9 1933 321 West 29th Street New York City N.Y.Dear Maud:Isn't it about time I answered your letter of November sixteenth I think so â€“ we were glad to hear from you and to receive your tin-type. There is not the faintest doubt that 'Tommie' was your Father is there You look just like the photo that his final widow sent us you also look well and very alert don't' look seventy.I am glad that you can get a 'kick' out of prohibition and attending conventions yes I remember your snatching the man's whiskey bottle and how gentlemanly he offered you a drink.I am glad that you are able to help the ministers even if it was only six cents rather a low price for a poem and music too. I do believe in helping others; even ministers they are the poorest paid swindlers there are and lots of them are self-hypnotized and believe their own patter. I am glad that you are feeling better in your ribs and should now if you could only use Christian Science you would know that you were not hurt and were in error when you thought you were. Sounds 'dippy' but there are lots of lunatics at largeâ€¦Will finally returned John's capital but the hard times set in before he was able to make any interest for them and I guess now we are going to arrive in H--- poor we will not be camelsâ€¦Will walks the streets and avenues continuously looking for a job but so far all that he has accomplished is leaving his name and address at various shops and factories this certainly is 'The Land of the Spree and the Home of the Knaves.' One has to be a bootlegger kidnapper or some other kind of crook to make money these times; and we are too old to learn crook waysâ€¦Rude writes he is having his troubles trying to get any work out of the negroes and he says the English bosses are about as lazy as the coons. He seems to find the climate all right so far but the place is called 'the white man's grave yard.'Glad that Frank still has a little work Victor is still looking for a job our kind of work seems to be like 'the dodo' â€“ extinct. Rude's address is Tarkwa Gold Coast Colony West Africa. Elsie just arrived there when he sent his last letter she said she had a wonderful trip ever since she left Peru enjoyed every minute of it. She had three days in London and flew over the city for a half hour to see it all at onceâ€¦It is mean of you to remind me that Christmas is nearly here. Christmas without money is fake. You know that Hannah always said 'it was a Catholic celebration gotten up by the priests to get the harvest money away from the people that Christ was born in July.' You can't prove it by me I wasn't present at the Virgin's lying-in. Give our love to all of your family and don't forget yourselfâ€¦.yours Hulda" books

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Millikan FamilyABAA

Vanderbilt University Professor Glenn Allen Millikan Memorial Service Funerial Booklet 1906-1947

194710347Tennessee: Vanderbilt University Chapel 1947. Paperback. Fair. InventorsBiomedicineMountaineeringRAF Memorial Service booklet May 29 1947. Vanderbilt University Chapel. pp. 26 Stapled booklet in paper wrappers nameplate pastedown to front cover. Glenn Allan Millikan was a noted Cambridge and Vanderbilt professor of Physiology killed while mountain climbing in the Cumberland Mountains of Tennessee. Exceptionally popular and beloved having gained notoriety for the invention of the first portable pulse oximeter as well coining the term the groundbreaking contribution to the Royal Air Force would be integrated into altitude masks for fighter pilots. In 1939 he married the daughter of George Mallory famed climber who died during a Mount Everest expedition. His father Nobel Prize 1923 winning Physicist Robert A. Millikan studied under Nernst and Planck and proved Einstein Vanderbilt University Chapel paperback books

Little Sages Books, ABAA · États-Unis40,00 $US≈ 33,84 €

MINNESOTA GENEALOGY AAKER FAMILYABAA

The Aaker Saga: A Family History

199847579Salem MA: Higginson Book Company 1998. Reprint. Quarto 28cm.; publisher's cloth tape-backed pictorial card wrappers; 206pp.; illus. Light shelf wear else Near Fine. Facsimile reprint of the 1951 edition published in Northfield Minnesota. Genealogical history of the Aaker family who emigrated to Minnesota in 1845 from Telemark Norway. Higginson Book Company unknown books

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MORRIS FAMILY DESCENDANTS MORRISANIAABAA

Lengthy Autographed Letter Signed Indicating Traffic in Slaves

1850219255Pelham 1850. unbound. 4 pages each two-page spread measuring 7.75 x 9.75 inches Pelham New York January 30 1850. Written by "Helen" Morris to brother Jacob the children of Staats Morris about having to sell their plantation and slaves in small part: ".Poor Richard he has had his hands full. The Plantation and the Negroes are sold and as usual.he has fared the worst he thinks Lewis has not acted honorably. Richard wished to buy the Plantation but I dissuaded him from it. The General presented his claims and has been beaten.Richard ordered a bid up to $12000.fearing it would be sold too low. The Negroes all sold well but his for which he blames Lewis.Judge Harper bought Sabinos and Richard Lewis.so they all have good Masters." Page three of this letter lists the extensive properties that the Morris family disposed of and who acquired the said parcels. The sale price totaled $122825.00. It is quite possible that the family was convinced that secession was a possibility panicked and sold large holdings believing they would cut their losses if the Civil War was inevitable. Several folds and creases; partial tear along the center fold; tiny pink stains on the last page. Very good- condition. unknown books

Argosy Book Store · États-Unis400,00 $US≈ 338,44 €

Music Women's Suffrage Hutchinson Family Singers John HutchinsonABAA

Souvenir: Song of Prophecy. Illustrated Broadside

1893List316Chicago 1893. Broadside 11 Â¾ x 5 Â½ inches. Very Good. John Hutchison patriarch and leader of the Hutchinson Family Band was hired by the World's Fair Committee to perform as one of the "Wonders of America." This broadsheet unrecorded is a souvenir of his performance from the fair in which he sang "Prophecy of Freedom" a ballad with suffragist overtones that he had written in 1867. The Hutchinson Family singers had enjoyed a long and successful career at the point of the 1893 exhibition beginning as one of the most successful acts of the 1840s. Their support of abolition women's rights temperance and workers' rights had limited their following somewhat and following the Civil War their appearances in large cities were generally limited to churches temperance meetings and women's suffrage rallies. By 1893 John Hutchinson was at the tail end of his career - he would die fifteen years later - but was welcomed by attendants. William Lloyd Garrison would describe John Hutchinson's singing as "directly and purposely subservient to the freedom welfare happiness and moral elevation of the people." The broadsheet introduces the song as " sung at his meetings held during the 'Woman's Congress Campaign' through Kansas. dedicated to the 'World's Fair Congresses' and sung by him during that period when prominence was given to the 'Fatherhood of God and Brotherhood of Man' emphasizing the principle as a true method of restoring the unity of all good for the whole race of man." The Hutchinson Family Band embodied the ideals of the Second Great Awakening and this shows those ideals going strong at the dawn of the twentieth century. A well preserved example in very good condition with some light creases and normal tanning. Not recorded in OCLC. unknown books

Auger Down Books · États-Unis450,00 $US≈ 380,75 €

Ney FamilyABAA

Memoirs of Marshal Ney

1834022529Philadelphia: E.L. Carey and A. Hart 1834. First American Edition. Octavo. Two books bound as one 216pp. and 222pp. 2pp. publisher's catalog and a smaller 18pp. publisher's catalog bound after first catalog at rear. Ney was considered one of the greatest generals produced by the French Revolution. He displayed diplomatic talents of a high order under the guidance and instructions from Charles M. Tallyrand minister for foreign affairs to the French Republic. Ney's retreat from Russia in 1813 was considered a masterpiece of strategy. He was the first to improve upon the old system of military tactics and founded the system which was then followed by the French armies. Ney's death was by firing squad for his supposed treason. This work was put together under the direction and management of the Duke of Elchingen Marshal Ney's second son. Bound in a modern 3/4 leather over marbled paper covered boards raised bands gilt red morocco spine label gilt renewed endpapers title page to volume I has a nice repair to upper right corner light scattered foxing throughout but more prominent to title pages. A good copy. E.L. Carey and A. Hart unknown books

Alcuin Books, ABAA-ILAB · États-Unis325,00 $US≈ 274,98 €

Nichols Plumb Norris Family CorrespondenceABAA

Archive of Family and Business Correspondence of the Plumb-Nichols-Norris Families of Denver and Fort Morgan Colorado 1856-1960

30897Archive consisting of 940 letters 2359 pages of correspondence both manuscript and typescript approximately 76 items of related family ephemera in good clean legible condition. Extensivecollection of correspondence pertaining to these three inter-married families who emigrated west from New York State to the mid-west and then on to Colorado in the 1860s. Lafayette W. Nichols was a pioneer in the lumber and building supply industry in Denver. He ran a business dealing in lumber and mill work in the 1870s which helped build the city. He later was an investor in real estate and mining. Much of his correspondence concerns his investments and the "Silver Question" which was of concern to Coloradans in the 1890s. He married Mary Plumb their daughter Josephine married William A. Norris. Norris was formerly a lawyer from Kansas who ran into trouble there. Norris later became a cattle broker. He was president of the Cornucopia Cattle Company of Fort Morgan Colorado brokering and selling dairy cattle primarily Holstein and Guernsey cattle but also short horns. He traveled extensively throughout Colorado and surrounding states in the course of his business as far east as Wisconsin and as far west as Oregon buying and selling cattle often by the train car-load. His letters are written primarily on the letterheads of hotels from towns and cities small medium and large in Colorado. His letters form a collection in themselves on the hotels of Colorado in the early 20th century. Norris also was president of The Better Roads Association. Based in Fort Morgan dedicated to improving roads in the state; its motto was: "Everybody for Better Roads Better Roads for Everybody." He was also market manager of the Morgan County Dairymen's Association also based in Fort Morgan. Norris seems to have been a troubled man. He worked very hard was constantly on the road but he seems to have perennially struggled economically. Norris and his wife appear to have lived apart much of the time Josephine remained in Denver and Norris was often either in Fort Morgan or traveling. His letters to his wife sometimes several a day describe his travels business and efforts to improve their economic situation. Nichols & Norris Families Lafayette W. Nichols 1828-1925 was born 3 September 1928 at Randolph Cattaraugus New York; died 18 May 1925 at Denver Colorado; he was the son of Daniel Franklin Nichols 1800-1883 and Lydia Bishop 1793-1859. He was living at Dutch Creek Iowa by 1856 and is enumerated there on the 1860 Census where he is listed as a farmer and enumerated only four families from his future wife's family Mary Plumb and her father F. M. Plumb. He married Mary Plumb on 17 October 1860 at Dutch Creek Iowa. Lafayette W. Nichols was considered one of Colorado's lumber pioneers he moved to Colorado in the 1860s. Mr. Nichols entered the Denver lumber business in 1872 he ran a dealership in sash doors blinds lumber lath and shingles located at the corner of Larimer and 20th Streets Denver Colorado however by 1880 Nichols was listed as a retired lumber merchant and his wife Mary was keeping house. His address was then 12 Nichols Block Denver. In 1900 he was still residing at Denver and listed with no occupation. When the 1910 Census was taken Lafayette was listed in the gold and silver mining business as an employer. In 1920 he was listed without an occupation again. He died in 1925. Mary Plumb was born 15 July 1836 Trumbull Co. Ohiodaughter of Francis Merrill Plumb 1806-1899 and his wife Laura Mary Hyde 1810-1854. She is found in 1850 living with her parents and siblings at Kinsman Trumbull Co. Ohio. When her parents moved to Dutch Creek Iowa she moved along with them as per the 1860 Census where she worked as a teacher. She met and married her husband in 1860 at Dutch Creek. By 1880 she was living with her husband Lafayette and their daughter Josephine in Denver where she lived for the rest of her life. Mary died on 28 December 1931. In 1910 Mary was listed as a practitioner of Christian Science on her own account. At one point she practiced clay modeling and one of her pieces was put into marble and exhibited at the World's Fair in Chicago. She and her husband had one child a daughter Josephine M. Nichols. Josephine M. Nichols was born in June 1868 at Washington Iowa and died in 1950 in Denver Colorado. She is found enumerated in 1880 at Denver where she was living with her parents. Josephine was listed as a teacher at a university in Denver in 1910. She married William A. Norris in 1911. In 1917 Josephine is found as the President of The College of Speech Arts at Denver. In 1920 although married she lived at home with her parents and was still listed as a teacher. Despite their marital and economic problems Josephine and her husband never divorced. By 1930 she was listed with no occupation presumably caring for her mother who lived with Josephine and her husband. By 1940 after the death of her mother in 1931 she appears to have taken a job again as a teacher at a private school. Josephine lived in Denver until her death in 1950. William A. Norris 1862-1954 was the 8th of 15 children born to Andrew Jackson Norris 1825-1893 and Euphany Lewis 1830-1911 of Concord Kentucky. Norris is found living at Concord in 1870 and 1880. On 5 April 1889 Norris was admitted to practice law and is found in Salina Kansas as an attorney where he was elected to the office of County Attorney. In 1897 Norris was accused with at least six counts of accepting money for conducting his official acts. The story made the front page of The Salina Daily Union on 2 September 1898. Norris declared his innocence and hired an attorney and a famous detective Sylvia Marshal to secure evidence of his innocence. He denied all the accusations. The case was investigated and went to the Kansas State Supreme Court. Norris was found guilty and disbarred in 1899 and removed from the office of County Attorney. Norris' guilt was due to a practice of many years by country attorneys of accepting a fee of $250 for cases dismissed while apparently illegal all those years it was never prosecuted but when he was prosecuted and was found guilty Norris was the County Attorney. While not given a jail sentence he was disbarred and lost his job as County Attorney. In 1908 an attempt was made by attorneys to have him reinstated as per The Lindsborg News- RecordLindsborg KS 4 Dec 1908 but it was not successful Norris left Kansas for Colorado where he met and married Josephine M. Nichols on 19 September 1911. The couple made their home in Denver. He lived with his wife at Denver for the rest of his life where he appears to have been an attorney at one point. Later in 1930 Norris was listed as a salesman of livestock and in 1940 was listed as a literary writer. He died at Denver in 1954 outliving his wife by four years.References:Ancestry.com compiled genealogies of the Plumb & Norris families as viewed on 8 Jan 2021.Newspapers.com as viewed on 9 Jan 2021. Used for stories of Norris legal troubles as per editions quoted in text above.The Times Streator IL 22 Sept 1911 Page 1 â€“ announcement of the marriage of Josephine M. Nichols and William Norris. Francis Merrill Plumb 1806-1899 Francis Merrill Plumb was born 18 September 1806 at Litchfield Herkimer Co New York. He was the son of Theron Aaron Plumb 1785-1864 and Harriet Merrill Merry 1785-1835. Francis was the eldest of at least 13 children born to his parents as follows: Francis 1806-1899; Martha 1808 -; Theron Calvin 1810-1838; Samuel 1812-1882; Mary 1813-1836; Jacob 1815-1861; Col. Ralph Oberlin 1816-1903; Calvin C. 1816-1840; Hiram Abiff 1820-1869; Edward B. 1822-1869; Harriet 1823 -: Julius Ashtabula 1827 -; & Elizabeth 1828 -. Francis's father Theron was the son of Ebenezer Plumb Jr 1739-1821 and his wife Mary Skeel 1739-1833 who were married about 1767 at Richmond Berkshire Co Massachusetts. Francis' father is died in 1864 at Clay Washington Co. Iowa at the age of 80. Francis's mother Harriet was the daughter of Samuel Merry Sr. 1750-1827 and his wife Hannah Merrill 1747-1814 who were married about 1769 in Hartford Connecticut. Francis Plumb married Laura M. Hyde on 19 October 1830 at Hormon Trumbull Co. Ohio. She was born 9 February 1810. She and her husband Francis had at least 15 children as follows:Hyde Plumb 1831-1855; Ezra Nelson Plumb 1833-1911; Faucett/Fawcett Plumb 1834-1919; Mary Plumb 1836 -1931; Sarah Plumb 1838-1921; Isabelle Plumb 1839-1859; Rosa Hyde Plumb 1841-1924; Dahlia Plumb 1842-1850; John Brough Plumb 1844-1921 he worked a job as a typesetter on the "Central City Register"; Robert Porter Plumb 1846-1921; Laura Mary Plumb 1848-1926; Jennie Laura Plumb 1851-1932; and Annie Plumb 1852 -. In the 1850 Census Francis is found with his wife and ten of his children living at Kinsman Trumbull Co. Ohio listed as a farmer. The 1855 Iowa State Census finds Plumb enumerated at Pleasant Ridge Lee Co. Iowa and in 1860 his first wife having died in 1854 Francis was now found enumerated at Dutch Creek Washington Co Iowa living with several of his children. The 1865 Illinois State Census shows Plumb then residing at Kendall Kendall Co Illinois. When the 1870 Census was taken Plumb was now found enumerated at Central City Gilpin Co. Colorado Territory and was again listed as a farmer with his son Nelson living with him and listed in the mining business. Francis moved to Central City and soon after founded a quartz grinding mill followed by a timber mill. By 1872 he relocated to Streator Illinois a town said to be virtually founded by his brother Ralph Oberlin Plumb 1816-1903. Francis's brother Ralph Oberlin Plumb was a Representative from Illinois. He was born in Busti Chautauqua County New Yok on 29 March 1816. He attended the common schools. He engaged in mercantile pursuits and moved to Ohio. He became a member of the Ohio State House of Representatives in 1855. He studied law and was admitted to the bar in 1857 and commenced practice in Oberlin Lorain County Ohio. During the Civil War Ralph served in the Union Army as captain and quartermaster of Volunteers 1861-1865. He was brevetted lieutenant colonel. After the war he moved to Illinois in 1866 and settled in Streator where he engaged in the mining of coal and the building of railroads. He became the mayor of Streator Illinois 1882-1885 and then was elected as a Republican to the Forty-ninth and Fiftieth U.S. Congresses March 4 1885-March 3 1889. He engaged in banking until his death in Streator on 8 April 1903. Francis M. Plumb lived a peripatetic life. we find he may have also lived or travelled to: Kinsman Ohio March 1852; Pontiac Illinois Feb. 1867; Kenosha Wisconsin Feb. 1867; Kinsman Ohio March 1867; Orangeville Ohio March 1867; Dover Plains Dutchess Co. New York May 1867; Patterson Putnam Co. New York June 1867; Denver Colorado Territory Oct. 1869; Central City Colorado Territory Nov. 1869 Jan. 1870 March 1870 Oct. 1870 Nov. 1870; Denver Colorado Territory Dec. 1870; "Plumbville on the Divide El Paso Co. Colorado Territory Jan. 1871; Denver Colorado Territory Feb. 1871; "At the Mill on the / Divide in Col. T.Y. / Sixty Miles from anywhere" March 1871; Kiowa Colorado Territory May 1871; Streator La Salle Co. Illinois Feb. 1872; Streator Illinois Sept. 1876 Jan. 1877. March 1877; and finally Joliet Illinois March 1884 where he appears to have lived until his death. After the death of his first wife Laura on 9 November 1854 he remained a widower until he was married a second time on 15 June 1881 to Hattie Elizabeth McIntire. She was born 19 March 1830 at Fredonia Chautauqua Co New York. She had previously been married to Jones H. Whitney in 1848 and had two children with him. Mr. Whitney died shortly after the Civil War and Hattie a widow went to live in Joliet where she met and married Plumb. Francis M. Plumb died 25 January 1899 at age 92 at his then home in Joliet Will Co. Illinois and was buried at Kinsman Presbyterian Cemetery Kinsman Trumbull Co. Ohio. Francis' sister Mary Plumb Sutliff 1813-1836 was said to have been the first wife of Levi Sutliff 1806-1864 who was a major force in the local Underground Railroad movement died at Trumbull Co. Ohio. The Sutliffs were a pioneer family in Trumbull County coming from Connecticut. They settled in Vernon Ohio and succeeding generations were influential civic leaders through 1955. Brothers Levi active in the Underground Railroad in Trumbull County and Milton 1808-1880 Ohio Supreme Court Judge and Senator supported the Abolition movement and the Underground Railroad financially and politically. They both attended the organizational meeting of the National Anti-Slavery Society in Philadelphia in 1833. Levi's daughter Phebe T. Sutliff a scholar and the first woman president of Rockford Illinois College was instrumental in the formation of many civic organizations in Warren. She was also a candidate for Congress in 1924.Sample Quotes:Bear Creek Colorado Dec. 13th 1863 Julia to Mary Plumb "My Ever Dear Mary Your kind and most welcome letter came to hand Friday last. It found us still living on Bear Creekâ€¦ I have been to see your brother once since you left he was well and if I am any judge of housekeeping he is getting along nicely â€¦ Porter is gone to the River. So the boys tell me. I have not been to Denver since I went with youâ€¦ Mrs. Mowry has had no parties since the people say Mr. Mowry is drinking very hard. I presume you have heard of Mr. Dunn's death he killed himself drinking and I am afraid Mr. Mowry will go much the same way. â€¦ recd a letter from Mr R last week he was at Kearney on the fifth of this month said he had quite a hard trip of itâ€¦ Wallace Milliag has returned from the new mines he says Griffith is doing well there. Wallace done well & is going back in March. Mary let us go to the new mines. What do you say â€¦ I have not seen any of the Denver boys since you left expect to go to Denver this week then perhaps I may see some of themâ€¦" London England June 7th 1875 Ralph Plumb to L. W. Nichols Denver Colorado "You are doubtless aware of the departure of the health seekers from Omaha about the 1st inst as I am informed by cable and you can sympathise with me in the deep interest felt for the undertakingâ€¦ I make the distance from Omaha to Colorado Springs via Denver by wagon road to be about 700 miles and if Geraldine should endure the journey and improve it will take them some 40 days or say 35 days to Denver. I shall expect to have a cable from some point on the Union Pacific besides letters by every steamerâ€¦ My year of banishment has not been entirely lost even if the business which called me here shall prove a failure for I have had an excellent opportunity for observing the English people high and low rich and poor learned and ignorant and to trace in their present condition the effects of their religious and political institutions. â€¦ I do not thus judge from any present appearance of opposition to monarchy in Great Britain. On the contrary there is a remarkable unanimity of feeling in favor of Queen Victoria and no one advocates a change. But let another come to the throne who is in any sense a king and not as the present Queen is a mere cypher and then an elements now existing here which would develop and crystalize into shapes that nothing could resist. The masses of England are now fearfully ignorant but the school master is abroad they are copying our system of schools and are making slow but sure progress towards free schools and universal education. Another influence is also quietly at work which in due time will powerfully aid in overthrowing monarchy in England and that is the disestablishment of the church â€¦ Disestablish the church make education universal and extend the suffrage to all who are of age and the next thing will be the overthrow of Monarchy. But the English move slow they are tied to old forms and will not adopt new ideas with the rapidity of Americans in fact if a change re to come only because an enlightened public opinion demanded it great would be the delay. Here as elsewhere great forces are silently at work which cannot be resisted and these though but dimly seen at present are sure to assert their power. England has attained her present commanding position by employing her laborers profitably and very largely in the manufacture of steel and iron for which articles the United States has been her very best customer. It is now demonstrated by actual working that both iron and steel can be made at less cost in the United States than here even with cheap labor and cheap capital in Englands favor so that in the immediate future not only will the United States cease to be Englands customer but will become her most formidable competitor for the markets of the world not only for their articles but for many others. Now remember there are here 32000000 and where these are deprived of profitable employment either force or a concession of natural rights must be employed to keep the laboring portion quiet. Force cannot be successfully used and concession must be adoptedâ€¦" Streator Il Oct. 25 1885 Ralph Plumb to L. W. Nichols Denver Colorado "The Rocky Mt News having an article on the much mooted silver question came duly to hand and is already in my scrapbook to which a lot of literature on that subject has found its way. Up to this writing I cannot see that the coinage of silver should be changed in any way except to make it free as is gold coinage. Coining less than all that is mined and not wanted for the arts tends strongly to depress the market price in fact it is difficult to see why it would not go to par if coinage was not restricted. No doubt the objector would say that you would make money too plenty. Doubtless it would seem so to the holder of bonds and securities for it would open the power of his holdings but for the great debtor masses such decrease in the power of money would work no harm but on the contrary good and as between these two classes patriotic justice demands that the latter should be served. I take no stock in the idea that silver is not wanted by the people because of its cumbersomness; a silver certificate is no more cumbersome than is a gold certificate and it will pay as many debts and buy as much property as either gold or silver itself. True it may be necessary for the government to provide storage but what of that What is government for if not for the purpose of serving the people who are or at least ought to be the masters of the government. It is well to inquire who it is that demands the denomination of silver or the stoppage of coining it even. The whole discussion has been introduced and engineered by the monied class and no one else â€“ True I must often with the average citizen who has heard so often that silver is driving gold from the country that he half believes it and is of course alarmed lest something terrible is about to happen but even such an easily made to see that gold never leaves the country as long as the balance of trade is in our favor as it now is -is likely to be and has been for years. No unless a light from some pinnacle higher than any Wall Street house comes to correct me I cannot aid in disturbing silver â€“ let "the dollar of the daddies" roll from every mint without let or hindrance. It is good for our people the people are the government and the United States is able to do what ever is for the peoples goodâ€¦" House of Representatives Washington D.C. January 17 1887 Ralph Plumb to L. W. Nichols Esq. Denver Colorado "Dear Sir I notice in the newspapers that ex-Senator Hill contemplates establishing Smelting works in Aurora Illinois. Now if he has such a thing in mind it would be a great mistake to adopt Aurora as a location when Streator is so much better that out of pure regard for Senator Hill's interests I desire to call his attention to Streator as possessing superior advantages to any location for such a purpose in the State of Illinois. Smelting requires fuel and the cheaper the fuel the greater the profit. Vermillion coal is unequalled for smelting purposes. It produces bot gas and coke to a degree that no other Illinois coal equals. The railroad facilities of Streator are more than double those of Aurora but I need not enlarge for you know these facts as well as I. It may not be true that Senator Hill contemplates such a move but I would ask you to interview him and tell him what you know about Streator. I have written him to-day so that you need not inform him that you see him at my request. It would be a "ten strike" for Streator to have such an acquisition as the proposed smelting works. â€¦" "Streator Illinois Oct. 16th 1892 Ralph Plumb to L. W. Nichols Denver Colorado "Returning from Iowa Dakota and Minnesota yesterday I found yours enclosing check for three hundred fifty seven $357 dollars which is endorsed on your note and pays interest until July 1892. In my absence RG Ingersoll delivered his lecture on Voltaire at the Opera House. While regretting we did not hear him we are glad a full house greeted the great agnostic and were well paid for their interest. You ask about Bald Mountain. Lillie is still trying to get the tunnel far enough ahead to reach the gold bearing grand channel but has not found it and may never do so but with a dogged perseverance which we call faith we are persisting and have hope. The tunnel is now considerably over a mile long. I had heard of J D McCords great loss. I know how heavy a blow the death of his wife must be to him. We have all of the excitement we need for the present. The worlds fair dedication and a McKinley meeting will take up the present weekâ€¦" Baltimore August 10th 1893 Robert Culver Real Estate and Loans to L. W. Nichols Denver "â€¦ I have kept close watch of the reports from Colorado and see what terrible times you have been having there. If Congress does nothing to relieve the situation I will inevitably have a good deal of Colorado property back on my hands. The pressure is just beginning to tell on us here in Baltimore. But the last day or two "since the Presidents message to Congress". I have taken new courage. I believe the bulk of the party will leave him and that Congress will pass some kind of a free silver law. Then we shall se whether Cleveland will veto it or not. They are bound to have very exciting times in Washington for the nest month or two and I am thankful that Colorado has two such able men in the Senate." Baltimore August 16 1893 Robert Culver Real Estate and Loans to L. W. Nichols Denver "â€¦ I will let you have the money you asked for just as soon as it can be got out of the Boulder Bank and I will write to Dr. Bond today. I suppose he has the hardest kind of a time to keep his Bank open at all. But I presume in a very few days it will be in better shape. We are beginning to feel the pressure of the tight money market here. Not a dollar can be borrowed from the banks here now with any kind of security. We have been building a good deal this summer and have used all our spare money. I think money will get plentier very soon now as people begin to see that we are not going to the single gold standard. I am encouraged at the outlook in Congress and think all will be wellâ€¦" Baltimore December 15 1893 Robert Culver Real Estate and Loans to L. W. Nichols Denver "â€¦ Times here are just beginning to get hard to keep soul and body together. It is a very queer state of things. Money is plenty and commands a very low rate of interest and all kinds of produce is very low in price but the poor can get no work to do to earn anything. No new enterprises are being started and Factories are constantly reducing wages and discharging their hands. All enterprise has been crushed out. I don't think we have seen the worst here yet. Colorado I believe is going to recover sooner from the crash than this Eastern country. We shall not have real good times again in my opinion until we get free coinage of silver again which I believe will be within five years. I see there are four new States likely to be admitted into the Union. Then with a western silver President we will be in shape to accomplish it. Our business here don't suffer from hard times as much as I anticipatedâ€¦" Streator Illinois Dec. 29th 1893 Ralph Plumb to L. W. Nichols Denver Colorado "Dear Sir â€¦ I return herewith the letter of your Balt correspondent. I hope he may prove prophet as to free coinage. There are indications of financial trouble throughout those European countries that have adopted the gold standard and are trying to rob silver of its money quality and it begins to appear to thinkers in Europe that the almost universal depression is traceable to the crucifixion of the white metal. Should this sentiment obtain and become a conviction it is probable that the back track will be taken and the great mischief be undone but as the battle now stands there is no hope for help from the other side of the Atlantic nor from those of our own financiers whose opinions are imported from Europe free of duty. As to our own country at this writing the gold bugs are on top. They have the democracy with them through ignorance and enough republicans through greed to control the situation. The US could dictate free coinage to the whole world if determined to do so and it is in the power of a compact party of voters enough to hold the balance of power to win the fight but it must act with both wisdom and firmness. Many of the free coiners are demagogs pure and simple â€“ none such are capable of leading on to victory. It requires a revolution among the voters â€“ a throwing off of party allegiance â€“ a devotion to the public good such as is borne of wide spread adversity â€“ The required condition is now supplied and if leaders come to the front sufficiently devoid of political itch for personal preferment the work of reinstating silver can be accomplished. But we can't "go it alone" with the balance of trade against us and nothing short of protection will insure us against the adverse balance. "Protection and Free Coinage" is an issue on which victory can be secured." Streator Illinois January 17 1894 Ralph Plumb to Mary P. Nichols Denver "Dear Niece The newspapers said a Ben Hur organization had been formed in Crawfordsville Ind at which place Lew Wallace resides. At Rose's suggestion I called Gen Wallaces attention to your statue of Ben and suggested that the "Tribe of Ben Hur" purchase it if it was for sale. Enclosed I send you the General's reply. If you can forward a photo to Frank Snyder of Crawfordsville it may lead to business. I will write to Mr. Snyder telling him that a photo may possible be hadâ€¦" Accompanied by Wallace's letter to Plumb dated January 15 1894. Baltimore April 15th 1896 Robert Culver Real Estate and Loans to L. W. Nichols Denver "â€¦ We have not sold any stock since we sent the 2nd Draft but hope to be able to do so soon. The times continue very dull and money hard to get â€¦ I am greatly interested in the movement in the political world these days. The gold men are making frantick efforts these days. The N.Y. World today argues that if a free coinage law was passed it would so contract the currency that all kinds of property would go down so tremendously in price as to ruin everybody except the extremely rich. It makes the bold statement that it would reduce prices one half. Perhaps it thinks none of the fools are dead I cut from the news Washington letter of last evening and inclose. It shows how true it is that the silver craze is dead. You know it has been saying in every issue that the silver craze was fast dying out was in fact dead and buried. If the politicians will let the people vote on it squarely I have no fear of the result. The danger is in the silver men dividing their forces. The gold men will vote as a unitâ€¦" Baltimore May 20 1896 Robert Culver Real Estate and Loans to L. W. Nichols Denver "Some days ago Jack sent you by Express all of those Thunder Bute shares you left when you were here $50000 I see by the papers that people are moving out of West Creek and presume the mines there did not turn out as well as we or they hoped they would. If it is thought advisable not to expend any more money there on the Thunder Bute property the money on hand might be expended some where else so that those buying the stock might not loose perhaps after all. I shall be anxious to see how that district turns out â€¦ I have been interested in the political outlook lately. I think the cause of silver has never grown faster than it has for the last few weeks especially in East of Colorado. If the Chicago Convention would nominate a good Silver man preferably N. M. Telller it would sweep the Country like a cyclone in my opinion. Even the gold men in Maryland would have a hard time to carry the state." Baltimore July 16th 1896 Robert Culver Real Estate and Loans to L. W. Nichols Denver "â€¦ right in the face of the frantic efforts of all the great news papers of this city to sweep back the tide. Of course I was greatly disappointed that Teller did not get the nomination at Chicago but Bryan was my second choice. I believe there is a good chance to carry even Maryland for Bryan and Silver. I have made it a point to talk with our contractors for a long time on the silver question â€¦ and now I believe every one will vote for Bryan & Sewall will be elected. But the gold men are rattled and will do every thing possible and there must be no let up on the part of silver men until the election is won. Our office has got to be quite a free silver headquarters as I was one of the first silver men here â€¦" Baltimore Sept. 22 1896 Robert Culver Real Estate and Loans to L. W. Nichols Denver "â€¦ I found a strong silver sentiment in both Cattaraugus and Chatauqua counties. Still a large part of the farmers are so dumb as to stick to the Republican party and advocate the gold standard. Uncle Alvah however is not one of that kind and all of our neighborhood in Cold Spring are for silver. â€¦ But New York State will undoubtedly go for McKinley I think. Money is being used in the most disgraceful manner and also intimidation of employers in favor of McKinley. Bryan is however a host within himself I have heard him twice once at Jamestown N.Y. and over here in both places he created the greatest enthusiasm. It is very hard to tell what will be the outcome in this State but it is liable to go for Bryan. At the B &ORR Shops in the City the Gold Bugs have organized a financial school and the ones who are the quickest to learn the gold catechism are to retain their places and those not answering to the satisfaction of the teachers are to be discharged. But thanks to the Australian Ballot when they are in the Booths they are free men. I am not all satisfied with the populists in this campaign. They mixing things up uselessly and may be the cause of loosing the election to McKinley. One of our Baltimore papers yesterday claimed that Colorado was likely to be carried for McKinley of course I knew better. How is the mining business Is there anything being done with the Thunder Bute property. Those to whom the Stock was sold are enquiring of me and I don't know what to tell them. â€¦" Baltimore Nov. 27th 1896 Robert Culver Real Estate and Loans to L. W. Nichols Denver "â€¦ not knowing exactly what to be thankful for. To say that I was disappointed in the outcome of the election is putting it very mildly although I realized the great power of the money and the Trusts and Corporations but I did not fully realize the dense ignorance of the Farmers of Iowa for instance and even of the farmers of the middle and eastern states. There is no excuse for them. They had no business to be controlled by the power of money. The Laborer in the eastern cities are wholly dependent upon their employers and then they are densely ignorant and don't know their interest. The Negroes voted almost to a man for McKinley simply because he is a republican. I don't know how it will terminate but I think in a revolution before many years. I think that a peaceful solution of the money question is now out of the question unless the American people are content to be ruled by a monied aristocracy and become industrial slaves. A foreign war might change the situation. Of course things may have a different outlook in 1900 but at present the future for America to me looks gloomy. â€¦ About the most disreputable performances during the last campaign has been the part the ministers and churches have played. With a few honorable exceptions. It has been very disgusting to me and exasperating beyond measure. I was thankful that Colorado came to the scratch in such fine shape and I am proud of herâ€¦ When we do have cold weather there will be great suffering by the poor. The Coal Trust raised the price of coal one dollar per ton over the price they sold it for last year in all these eastern cities although they pay their laborers less than one year ago. They rob the people of one dollar or more on every ton of coal they use and give back a small proportion of it to secure their votes so as to enable them to continue robbery indefinitely." Baltimore Oct. 10th 1898 Robert Culver Real Estate and Loans to L. W. Nichols Denver "â€¦ About "politics" I fully agree you that we are helpless and can only lie still and see them work out their Devilish schemes. It seems almost impossible to make the average Maryland voter realize and understand the effect of the single gold standard and the contraction of our money. They will not use their brains and are growing more ignorant and poorer every day Maryland is really controlled by voters who cannot read or write. They hold the balance of power and expectand are paid for their votes one way and another but largely with cash. It don't take but a little money to buy a Darkeys sic vote. I am disgusted with the politics of Maryland and I am persuaded it is little better elsewhere. Not quite as much ignorance perhaps but rascality and corruption everywhere. The present administration I think is the most corrupt in the history of the Nation. There is jobbery everywhere. The welfare of the common people is not considered at all. I get discouraged and think sometimes that the Government can never be wrested from the Boodlers the Trusts & Money Sharks. Money seems to be all powerful in the Elections and they have it and use itâ€¦Have thought some of going to Cuba or Porto Rico but I think now things will be too unsettled â€¦" Collection Inventory: The collection can be divided into three sections:I. Nichols- Plumb Family Lettersa. Letters by Lafayette W. Nichols 1850's-1860's7 letters 21 pagesb. Letters to Lafayette W. Nichols from various correspondents 1855-191365 letters 168 pagesc. Letters from Ralph Plumb Streator Illinois to Lafayette W. Nichols Denver 1875-1900 16 letters 29 pagesd. Letters from Robert Culver Baltimore to Lafayette W. Nichols Denver 1893-189819 letters 28 pagese. Letters to Mary Plumb Nichols wife of L.W. Nichols 1856-192330 letters 113 pagesf. Plumb-Nichols-Norris miscellaneous correspondence 1860's-190524 letters 71 pagesII. Letters to Josephine Nichols Norrisa. 1870's 4 letters 10 pagesb. 1902 2 letters 9 pagesc. 1903 primarily from her mother Mary P. Nichols 54 letters 192 pagesd. 1904 3 letters 8 pagese. 1906 2 letters 2 pagesf. 1909 hereafter letters are primarily from her fiancÃ© and later husband William A. Norris 62 letters 200 pagesg. 1910 137 letters 363 pagesh. 191 87 letters 199 pagesi. 1912 2 letters 9 pagesj. 1913 43 letters 100 pagesk. 1914 52 letters 98 pagesl. 1915 97 letters 239 pagesm. 1916 76 letters 142 pagesn. 1917 36 letters 57 pageso. 1918 51 letters 113 pagesp. 1919 23 letters 65 pagesq. 1920 8 letters 24 pagesr. Undated letters to Josephine N. Nichols from W. A. Norris 23 letters 53 pagess. Later letters to Josephine N. Norris 1920s-1930s 6 letters 18 pagest. Later letters to William A. Norris 1920s-1940s 12 letters 28 pagesIII. Plumb-Nichols-Norris Ephemera 1856-1960Approximately 76 items including: bills receipts invoices circulars promotional items viewbooks family photographs autograph book small account book deeds promissory notes botanical specimen book school ephemera et cetera. books

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North of Ireland Family History SocietyABAA

North Irish Roots: Vol. 7 No. 1

1996126659Belfast Northern Ireland: North of Ireland Family History Society 1996. Softcover. VG some writing on page 1 a few minor wear marks. Light blue wraps staple-bound 56 pp some BW illustrations. "The Cromies of Portsmouth" "Murphy's Law: Bonnon Bonham Bonnane Bannon - Caverine" "Names being researched" and other articles. North of Ireland Family History Society unknown books

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Nunn Family O'Brien O'BrienABAA

Original watercolour and Manuscript Poem entitle "The Birth-Day Banner or a Tribute to Virtue." produced to celebrate the 21st birthday of Edward Westby Nunn 1821-1881 of Hill Castle and St. Margaret's county Wexford Ireland

1842100843Wexford Ireland 1842. The combined Arms of Nunn and Westby centre top the ten verses in praise/celebration each with their bubbler surrounding decorative elements include a fox hunt; a pair of fiddle players; a pair of Celtic bagpipe players; a line of Irish Step-dancers; a pair of Celtic harp players; a formal procession with Edawrd Westby Nunn pictured in an open carriage pulled by 4 white horses driven by a harp-playing coachman. 24-5/8 x 15-1/4 inches. Farmed in green birdseye maple frame. The combined Arms of Nunn and Westby centre top the ten verses in praise/celebration each with their bubbler surrounding decorative elements include a fox hunt; a pair of fiddle players; a pair of Celtic bagpipe players; a line of Irish Step-dancers; a pair of Celtic harp players; a formal procession with Edawrd Westby Nunn pictured in an open carriage pulled by 4 white horses driven by a harp-playing coachman. 24-5/8 x 15-1/4 inches. WONDERFUL. Reading in part Verses 7 & 8: Round his estate and grand domain You cannot trace the tryant's hand Stain'd by the ill paid toil and pain Of those who cultivate the land The peasants tran'd to sweat and toil Ere the day's task it has begun With one accord will freely join To bless the name of Nunn The dwellings pf his tenantry Neath Forth's high crags all green and blue O'er van'd scenes to the wide sea In beauteous grace attract the view No absentee here ever sends His minion vile to cause despair No there true grace with virtue blend So great Hill Castle's honored Heir. unknown books

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O'HARA FAMILYABAA

CROHOORE OF THE BILL-HOOK

1848780521848. O'HARA FAMILY. CROHOORE OF THE BILL-HOOK AND THE FETCHES. London: Simms and McIntyre 1848. Later printing. 12mo. quarter red morocco over marbled paper boards all edges marbled. Bookseller stamp to ffep. Some rubbing and edgewear to spine and boards. Rear hinge is weakening else generally clean within. About very good. unknown books

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Ohio. Smith FamilyABAA

Three Letters Written by an English Family of Farmers Describing Life After Settling in Cleveland in the 1830s

1840470Cleveland 1840. Very good. 8pp. on three folded sheets. Folio. Old fold lines. Minor wear and soiling. In a highly legible hand. Small archive of letters written by James and Mary Smith English farmers emigrated to Ohio by way of Lowell Massachusetts. The pair settled on a farm eight miles from Cleveland during a boom period -- in 1820 only 606 people lived in Cleveland and only around 1000 in 1830. The completion of the Ohio and Erie Canals however increased the population to nearly 6000 by the time the last of these letters was written in 1840. The Smiths had seven children at least one of whom John C. Smith 1814-1881 remained in Lowell working as a calico printer at the Merrimack Print Works. As a family of farmers the Smiths' correspondence focuses primarily on their land and the value of their harvest. In the winter of 1837 James and Mary tell their son. "We have completed our stable. It will hold ten head of cattle. We have 3 acres of wheat in which we intend to raise much produce as we can for Cleveland is a very good market. Our last butter we got 21 cents per pound flour is 7 dollars and 50 cents per barrel." By 1840 the Smiths' land is thriving: "Our crop of wheat is 66 bushels. The last years was the best year for wheat since we came here. we sold butter 424 pounds it made us over 70 dollars from 4 cows. The last fall we cleared six acres and put wheat in it. It is the most we have put in since we came. The last harvest we had 18 acres to mow 5 acres of wheat to reap 2 acres oats to reap and six acres of wheat to put in. We hired a man one week to help us. We did all rest ourselves. We have under cultivation 40 acres. Land is low because cash is so very scarce." Cash may have been scarce because of the region or due to the Panic of 1837 which hit the Smiths and their dairy in the next couple of years. A nice snapshot of the life of emigrant farmers in the Midwest during the 1830s. unknown books

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Old FamilyABAA

COCKING SCIENCE: THE BREEDING REARING CONDITIONING AND FIGHTING OF GAME FOWL FROM A SCIENTIFIC POINT OF VIEW

197048029DeQueen AK: Feathered Warrior 1970. Softcover. Very good/No jacket issued. Feathered Warrior paperback books

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Olmsted Family Inc.ABAA

The Eleventh Reunion of the Olmsted Family held at Ridgefield Conn. September 17th 1932.

1932m2306N.l.: Olmsted Family 1932. Octavo stiff printed wrappers stapled 46 pp. Frontis. photo portraits photos. Very Good. Olmsted Family, 1932. unknown books

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Olmsted Family Inc.ABAA

The Tenth Reunion of the Olmsted Family held at East Hartford Conn. September 13th 1930.

1930m2305N.l.: Olmsted Family 1930. Octavo stiff printed wrappers stapled 46 pp. Frontis. photo portraits photos. Very Good. Olmsted Family, 1930. unknown books

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Olmsted Family Association.ABAA

Eighth Reunion of the Olmsted Family Association Held at Chicago Illinois September 24th-26th 1926 Headquarters at Edgewater Beach Hotel.

1926m2304N.l.: Olmsted Family Association 1926. Octavo stiff printed wrappers stapled 27 pp. Frontis. photo. Very Good; some pencilled notes. Olmsted Family Association, 1926. unknown books

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OSMOND FAMILY. DUNN Paul HABAA

The Osmonds: The Official Story of the Osmond Family

306644Garden City New York Doubleday & Company 1976. First edition later printing . 8vo. 1 page foreword by Ronald J. Clark. Illustrated with 130 b/w halftone photographs. Dust jacket designed by Bill Kuhre unclipped; light soiling. Very good-fine. 246 pages. No signatures or bookplates. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Garden City, New York, Doubleday & Company, 1976. hardcover books

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PARK FAMILYABAA

THE PARK FAMILY CONCERT COMPANY; The most talented family of musicians now before the public

188232045Boston 1882. Advertising flyer. 4to pp. 4. Printed in black on newsprint. Picture of the performers on the front 8 adults and children stamped in purple "Woodbury's Hall Saturday Jul 28." Inside a description of the performers each of whom play a variety of brass stringed instruments and drums; plus some reviews of performances. On the back a large portrait of Annie A. Park "Acknowledged the finest Lady cornetist by the best Musical Critics." The piece is cut cleanly across the center perhaps where it had been folded. Some yellowing and small tears on edges but otherwise quite well preserved. unknown books

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Paston Family with David Norman editorABAA

Part 1 of a projected 3-part set

1971126706London England: Oxford University Press 1971. First. Hardbound. Ex-library book with labels and envelope on free endpapers VG cover and pages crisp bump to lower spine. Black cloth boards with gold lettering lxxxvii 671 pp plus 13 BW plates. From the publisher: The Paston family papers provide an incomparable picture of life in fifteenth-century England and richly illustrate the resources of the language at an important period. They have long been consulted by historians and other students of the fifteenth century for their information about social history and politics both within East Anglia and also nationally. The authoritative edition of Parts 1 and 2 by Professor Norman Davis was published by the Clarendon Press in 1971 Part 1 and 1976 Part 2. Part 3 published in 2006 and edited by Dr Richard Beadle and Professor Colin Richmond completed the series planned by Professor Davis before his death. It contains the remaining texts with indexes to all three parts. Oxford University Press hardcover books

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Patricia PolaccoABAA

My Rotten Redheaded Older Brother

001280Simon& Schuster 1994 Book. As New. Soft cover. F. As New/As New. First Edition. Galley/Proof. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. ISBN:0-671-72751-6. Simon& Schuster, 1994 Paperback books

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PATTON Michael QuinnABAA

Grand Canyon Celebration: A Father-Son Journey of Discovery

199934727Amherst: Prometheus Books. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 1999. Hardcover. 1573922668 . First printing. Fine in a fine dust jacket. . Prometheus Books hardcover books

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Pearson Carol Lynn and Lex deAzevedo King Family ChildrenABAA

The King Family Children sing songs from My Turn on Earth and other favorites

19781992North Hollywood CA: Embryo Music Co 1978. 33 1/3 Long-playing records 30 cm in original printed cover and sleeve. Better than very good. On this record the King Family Children sing songs from Carol Lynn Pearson's 'My Turn on Earth' and two songs from 'Saturday's Warrior' 'Saturday's Warrior' and 'Pullin' Together'. Embryo Music Co unknown books

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