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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
Josiah Littlefield papers
Collection
Identifier: c-00188
Scope and Contents
The Josiah Littlefield papers contain a portion of Littlefield's unpublished autobiography, in which he describes his early life on a farm in Monroe County, Michigan (1850-1865), as well as biographical materials. The collection also contains four ledgers from Littlefield's mill, recording workers' hours and business transactions, property tax receipts, and a map showing Littlefield-owned land in Clare County, Michigan.One ledger may be from a lumber camp (Gilmore Camp 1893-1895)...
Dates:
1879 - 1958
Lamar M. Wood papers
Record Group
Identifier: UA-10.3.162
Scope and Contents
The Lamar M. Wood papers contain several publications from Wood’s years at Michigan Agricultural College (now Michigan State University). There is a publication from the Ulyssian Literary Society, a basketball program, a football program, a journal from the Theta Kappa Nu Fraternity, and an alumni publication for the class of 1925. There is also a soil and agricultural map and report for Ogemaw County, Michigan from 1928. There is also a typescript of the 1888 Diary of Perry Wood, by Jim...
Dates:
1909 - 2000
Lillie Lauretta Gragg collection
Collection
Identifier: c-00710
Content Description
The Lillie Lauretta Gragg collection contains a pdf of photocopy of the reminiscences of Lillie Lauretta Shaw Gragg. She describes in her childhood and adult life. Also included is a transcription of the reminscences. The reminiscences are available in both digital and phyiscal forms. The reminiscences appeared in the Sunfield Sentinel from 2018-2019.
Dates:
1978, circa 2018
Madge Ladd collection
Collection
Identifier: c-00389
Scope and Contents
This collection contains farm diaries and accounts (1854-1871) of Josiah W. Bliss who moved from Portage, New York in 1863 to Oakland County, Michigan, and later (1869) to Kent County Michigan. Daily events and expenditures of a Rockford, Kent County farm are noted. One account book (1864) lists buyers and prices for the sale of farm animals and machinery.Also included is an account book (1852-1857) for a general store operated by Marvin Ladd in Milford, Michigan, which has also...
Dates:
1852 - 1918
Mallison family collection
Collection
Identifier: c-00675
Scope and Contents
The collection consists of materials from the Mallison family including the Civil War letters of Simeon Mallison and George Hewes, an article (1928) about Bertha Mallison and her chicken dinners, a Mallison Farm Chicken Dinners card, a photo postcard of the Hesperian House where Bertha Mallison cooked, a photograph of Mallison family exhibit, a photograph of farm house, a photograph of Todd Mallison (great great nephew of Simeon Mallison) with Post 294 GAR flag, a Homestead Certificate from...
Dates:
1861-1873, 1928, 1958, 2013, undated
Mary LaSelle collection
Collection
Identifier: UA-10.3.448
Scope and Contents
The collection contains the diary of Edward Lester LaSelle while he was a student at Olivet College and later a teacher in Portland, Michigan, 1880-1881; a farm account book, 1884-1991; minutes of School District No. 4 of Portland Township in Ionia County, 1862-89; Postmaster appointment certificate, 1891 and a Diamond Jubilee Book of First Congregational Church, Portland, Michigan, 1918.
Dates:
1862 - 1918; Majority of material found within 1862 - 1891
Meeker family papers
Collection
Identifier: c-00573
Scope and Contents
The collection consists of the diaries of Lucien Meeker and Helen Meeker. The 1882 diary of Lucien Meeker contains daily accounts of weather and the happenings of the people in the household, as well as accounts of farming activities. There are a few entries in which Lucien talks of being called on to care for an ill horse. His diary also contains a newspaper clipping of the obituary of Helen Louisa. The diary of Helen Louisa Meeker, 1886, contains entries regarding chores, those...
Dates:
1882, 1886, undated
Merton J. Whitman papers
Collection
Identifier: c-00398
Scope and Contents
The papers consist of Whitman's memoirs and records of the Modern Woodmen of America. Whitman's memoirs, written in 1946-1949, deal chiefly with his younger years during the 1880s and 1890s in Ogemaw and Arenac Counties, Michigan. He describes farm life and farming techniques, lumbering and transportation facilities, and the geography of the area. His chief topic is a history of the Delano Settlement in Whitney Township, Arenac County, Michigan.The records of Delano...
Dates:
1900 - 1949
Miller family papers
Collection
Identifier: 00048
Scope and Contents
The bulk of this collection is made up of 16 volumes. The first two volumes are a diary (1880-1883) and an account book (1885-1914) kept by John W. Miller, a farmer in Mendon, St. Joseph County, Michigan. The next 13 volumes are diaries (1911-1923) also kept by John W. Miller.The diaries describe daily farm life. Frequent reference is made to prayer meetings and tell of events in Kalamazoo and St. Joseph Counties. At the back of each volume is a record of income and expenses for...
Dates:
1880 - 1923