Powell, Ralph Waterbury
Person
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
Maude Nason Powell papers
Record Group
Identifier: UA-10.3.59
Scope and Contents
The Maude Powell papers consist of correspondence, financial records, scrapbooks, publications, a journal, and legal documents. The bulk of the correspondence relates to life in China between 1917 and 1987, beginning with letters between Maude and Ralph in 1916 as they prepared to go to China. From 1917 to 1927 their letters to friends and relatives back home describe and comment on their life in China as missionaries. Letters between Maude and Ralph during their separations discuss their...
Dates:
1908 - 1987
Powell family papers
Collection
Identifier: c-00059
Scope and Contents
The papers include the last will and testament (1826) of John Powell; and nine letters (1803-1846) and their typed transcriptions relating to John Leavitt Powell and his family, giving information about agricultural conditions in New York and Michigan. There is also a farm account book (1846-1887) containing a family record, and several receipts (1842-1843) of Joseph Priestley Powell, son of John L. Powell, who operated a farm in the township of Ronald, Ionia County, Michigan. Also included...
Dates:
1803 - 1970; Majority of material found within 1803 - 1887
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- Account books 1
- Agriculture -- Michigan 1
- Agriculture -- New York (State) 1
- China -- History 1
- College students 1
- Diaries 1
- Engineering 1
- Farm management -- Michigan 1
- Indentured servants 1
- Ionia County (Mich.) 1
- Lanesborough (Mass.) 1
- Legal instruments 1
- Letters (correspondence) 1
- Manuscripts 1
- Missionaries -- China 1
- Nutrition -- Study and teaching 1
- Oneida County (N.Y.) 1
- Photographs 1
- Postcards 1
- Ronald (Mich. : Township) 1
- Scrapbooks 1
- Society of Friends 1
- Theses 1
- Wills -- Michigan 1 + ∧ less
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