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David Van Tine papers

 Collection
Identifier: c-00414
Scope and Contents

Legal documents of David Van Tine, operator of a furniture factory in Tecumseh, Lenawee County, Michigan are included in this collection. Among the documents are deeds, mortgages, and Van Tine's last will and testament (1892).

Dates: 1837 - 1897
Found in: University Archives and Historical Collections

Elizabeth Chandler papers

 Collection
Identifier: c-00098
Scope and Contents

This collection consists of newspaper reprints of nine letters written by Elizabeth Chandler of Lenawee County, Michigan, describing her pioneer experiences in the period 1830 to 1834. The letters were published by the Yale Publishing Association in 1926.

Dates: 1926
Found in: University Archives and Historical Collections

Elton B. Hill papers

 Record Group
Identifier: UA-17.67
Scope and Contents The bulk of the collection contains material relating to the issues that interested Hill most as a teacher and researcher. He taught a number of courses on farm appraisal and agricultural finance, and his reference material appears here. Land tenure, especially the legal and moral implications of father-son partnerships and farm ownership transfers, were of special interest to him.In addition to this, there is also a scrapbook and some memorabilia from his college days at...
Dates: 1862 - 1972
Found in: University Archives and Historical Collections

John Shaw papers

 Collection
Identifier: c-00286
Scope and Contents This collection consists of deeds and receipts of John Shaw of Lenawee County, Michigan. Also included is a Civil War letter describing battles around Richmond, Virginia, a letter licensing Shaw as a minister of the Christian Church of Adrian and Rome, Michigan (1867).The Civil War letter has been transcribed, scanned and placed online at ...
Dates: 1838 - 1872
Found in: University Archives and Historical Collections

Jonathan W. Austin papers

 Collection
Identifier: c-00334
Scope and Contents

This collection contains a farm account book (1841-1851) and bills and receipts (1840-1863) of Jonathon W. Austin, a resident of Lenawee County, Michigan. Also included are two letters (1851, 1854) to Austin, one of which discusses the hard times in Dundee, Monroe County, Michigan.

Dates: 1840 - 1863
Found in: University Archives and Historical Collections

Lenawee County Horticultural Society records

 Collection
Identifier: c-00319
Scope and Contents

This collection contains two volumes (1886-1904, 1923-1926) containing the constitution and by-laws, the minutes of meetings, copies of papers read, membership lists, and financial reports. Also included are receipts and anniversary programs of the society and a ticket to the Lenawee County Fair (1877).

Dates: 1877 - 1959
Found in: University Archives and Historical Collections

Lenawee County school records

 Collection
Identifier: c-00358
Scope and Contents

This collection contains the school census of District 7 of Tecumseh Township, Lenawee County, Michigan, June 16, 1906. Listed are the names of school children, teachers, and courses offered.

Dates: 1906
Found in: University Archives and Historical Collections

Manuel McCormick diary

 Collection
Identifier: c-00489
Scope and Contents

The collection includes the diary of Manuel McCormick of Lenawee County, Michigan. The entries describe his experiences, troop movements, and battles through the southern United States, particularly Tennessee, while a soldier during the American Civil War, from January 1863 through July 1864.

Dates: 1836 - 1886
Found in: University Archives and Historical Collections

Sand Creek Telephone Company and Sand Creek Threshing Company records

 Collection
Identifier: c-00394
Scope and Contents The collection contains joint records including receipts, account records, and hardware and machinery catalogues, of the two companies operating in Sand Creek, Lenawee County, Michigan.Volume I contains business accounts from a granary (1910-1911), and from the Sand Creek Telephone Company (1915-1915). Volume 2 contains company meeting minutes of the Sand Creek Threshing Company (1917-1930). Volume 3 contains records of the Sand Creek Telephone Company (1912-1920) and the Sand...
Dates: 1910 - 1935
Found in: University Archives and Historical Collections

Thomas Wright diary

 Collection
Identifier: c-00009
Scope and Contents

This collection consists of the diary of Thomas Wright (1831-1841) as it was published in the Tecumseh Herald in 1955, with a brief history of Tecumseh, Michigan. Wright's diary chronicles his relocation in 1831 from Massachusetts to Michigan, where he bought a farm. Earliest entries in the diary detail his journey across Lake Erie in a crowded boat that carried 250 passengers "of every age and condition".

Dates: 1955
Found in: University Archives and Historical Collections

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United States. Army. New York Infantry Regiment, 126th (1862-1865) 1
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