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Eaton County school records

 Collection
Identifier: c-00367
Scope and Contents

The collection contains an assessor's book for School District No. 2, Benton Township, Eaton county, Michigan. Listed are teachers' wages, checks, a financial account covering school supplies, and a legal guide for school officers.

Dates: 1866 - 1908
Found in: University Archives and Historical Collections

Edmund A. Calkins papers

 Collection
Identifier: UA-10.3.419
Scope and Contents

The collection consists of several scrapbooks containing newspaper articles of Franklin D. Roosevelt's private and political life from 1934 to 1940. There is also a Vermontville School Register (1891-1895), a booklet containing teacher contracts in Eaton County, financial records, data pertaining to Michigan railroads, Michigan Constitutional Convention of 1907 Handbook, and diaries dating from 1908 to 1933.

Dates: 1859 - 1940
Found in: University Archives and Historical Collections

Emory W. Tappan papers

 Collection
Identifier: 00065
Scope and Contents The collection consists of sketches and (some with negatives and others photocopied with pictures of buildings) and survey notes (with related subdivision plat maps, blueprints, and correspondence) of Emory W. Tappan, a registered surveyor and civil engineer. Tappan's early association was with the firm Postiff and Tappan of Detroit, Michigan. Later, papers refer only to Emory W. Tappan, Civil Engineer and Surveyor, Registered, 413 Abbot Road, East Lansing, Michigan. Most of the...
Dates: 1928 - 1953
Found in: University Archives and Historical Collections

Jane Comstock letter

 Collection
Identifier: c-00416
Scope and Contents

This letter, written primarily by Jane Comstock and Charlotte Gladding of Eaton Rapids, Eaton County, Michigan, and addressed to Samuel Hickson of Painesville, Lake County, Ohio, is divided into notes to several members of his family. Topics include the Comstock's new farm, crops, Thomsonian medicine, and Charlotte's recent marriage.

Dates: 1845
Found in: University Archives and Historical Collections

Michigan State Grange records

 Collection
Identifier: 00187
Scope and Contents The records of the Michigan State Grange are held by the MSU Archives and the Bentley Historical Library in Ann Arbor, Michigan. The MSU Archives holds the Grange records from the following counties: Allegan, Barry, Benzie, Berrien, Branch, Calhoun, Cass, Clare, Clinton, Eaton, Grand Traverse, Gratiot, Ingham, Ionia, Isabella, Kalamazoo, Kalkaska, Kent, Leelanau, Manistee, Mason, Mecosta, Montcalm, Muskegon, Newaygo, Oceana, Osceola, Otsego, Ottawa, Shiawassee, St. Joseph, Van Buren,...
Dates: 1873 - 2009
Found in: University Archives and Historical Collections

Naomi Carrier Schopp papers

 Collection
Identifier: c-00116
Scope and Contents The papers of Naomi Carrier (Mrs. William) Schopp consist mainly of correspondence of Mrs. Schopp, of Eaton and Ingham Counties, Michigan, her mother, Mrs. Joseph J. (Ada) Taylor, of Eaton County, and other relatives and friends. Included are correspondence between Mrs. Taylor, her sister, Nettie, and their mother, Marilla Collins.Of interest are letters from Nettie (1893) describing the difficult birth of her child, from Ada (1914) discussing household tasks, and from M. A. Wilson...
Dates: 1891 - 1942
Found in: University Archives and Historical Collections

Sprague and Strange families correspondence

 Collection
Identifier: c-00338
Scope and Contents

This collection contains correspondence for the most part addressed to John Strange of Oneida, Eaton County, Michigan, and to his spouse Orinda (nee Sprague), from members of their families in Massachusetts and New York.

The letters are concerned with family matters -- births, deaths, and marriages -- and flavored with pious comments. Beginning in 1849, the correspondence includes much discussion of California and the Gold Rush, and of travel to the West.

Dates: 1832 - 1869
Found in: University Archives and Historical Collections

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Calkins, Edmund Albert 1
Campbell District School (Eaton County, Mich.) 1
Comstock, Jane 1
Gladding, Charlotte J. 1
Hannah, John A., 1902-1991 1
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Kuhn, Madison, 1910-1985 1
Michigan State Grange 1
Michigan State University. Class of 1898 1
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Roosevelt, Franklin D. (Franklin Delano), 1882-1945 1
United States. Works Progress Administration 1
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