Woman’s Christian Temperance Union
Organization
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
Anonymous diary
Collection
Identifier: c-00084
Scope and Contents
The collection consists of one diary, kept from December 19, 1899 to May 3, 1903. While the author is unknown, the diary reveals that he ran a small combined hardware store and post office, as well as owning a farm in the Pomona, Michigan area. In addition to comments about the author's personal life, the diary contains a detailed record of marriages, births, illnesses, and deaths in the towns along the railroad line between Harlan, Pomona, and Copemish, Michigan. Social events are...
Dates:
1899 - 1903
French family papers
Collection
Identifier: 00030
Scope and Contents
The collection consists largely of personal correspondence of the French and Cady families, related through the marriage of Sarah Jane Cady to Newell Andrew French. The families were originally from New York and Pennsylvania. Although most letters contain family news, there are those discussing land, crops, and conditions of the times.The letters of Myron French and Charles Cady from June 9, 1861 through June 29, 1864 describe the Civil War. A letter of August 12, 1861 tells of...
Dates:
1856 - 1931
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- Agriculture -- Kansas 1
- Broome County (N.Y.) 1
- Charlevoix (Mich.) 1
- City Point (Va.) 1
- Diaries 1
- Education, Elementary 1
- Florida 1
- Freemasonry -- Michigan 1
- Frontier and pioneer life -- Kansas 1
- Georgia 1
- Guadalajara (Mexico) 1
- Harlan (Mich.) 1
- Kalkaska (Mich.) 1
- Letters (correspondence) 1
- Long Island (N.Y.) 1
- Michigan -- Social life and customs 1
- Nassau (Bahamas) 1
- Pomona (Mich.) 1
- Prohibition -- Michigan 1
- Reading (Mich.) 1
- Temperance -- Societies, etc. 1
- United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 1
- Virginia 1
- Washington (D.C.) 1 + ∧ less
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