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Addie E. Milks diary

 Collection
Identifier: c-00548
Scope and Contents This collection contains excerpts from Addie E. Milks' diary detailing the history and genealogy of the Sloan and McCormick families, as well as early pioneer life in Michigan territory.A majority of the excerpts pertain to Addie's mother, Ann McCormick Malone, and her dramatic experiences during the Revolutionary War as well as her family's subsequent move to Taymouth Township, near the Flint River, Michigan.Also included in the excerpts are comments about relations...
Dates: 1922

Anna Rebecca Edwards reminiscences

 Collection
Identifier: c-00289
Scope and Contents This collection contains the reminiscences of Anna Rebecca Edwards describing pioneer life in Michigan in the late 19th century. Her parents, Isaac Carver and Ruth Jessop Carver, moved to Michigan in 1859, settling first in Benzonia and then moving to Frankfort. Edwards describes the difficulties of pioneer life, especially illness and scarcity of food. She also discusses agriculture, education, social activity, daily work, and housework.The collection also includes brief notes...
Dates: 1936

Bond family papers

 Collection
Identifier: c-00234
Scope and Contents

This collection contains correspondence between members of the Bond and Newcomb families. The majority is addressed to John G. Bond, who moved to Berrien County, Michigan, in 1839. The letters are concerned with news of family and friends. Several letters trace the genealogy of the Bond family in America.

Dates: 1827 - 1855

Boutell family collection

 Collection
Identifier: c-00060
Dates: 1853 - 1900

Carrie Usewick Harvey reminiscences

 Collection
Identifier: c-00174
Scope and Contents

This collection consists of the typewritten reminiscences of Carrie Usewick Harvey, of Wexford County, Michigan, as told to her daughter.

The reminiscences gave an account of the family's migration and settlement in Wexford County, and Carrie's recollections of her youth. They also describe early lumbering operations and homemade remedies for illness.

Dates: undated

Chamberlain family papers

 Collection
Identifier: UA-1.1.12
Scope and Contents The collection consists of family correspondence, documents, and business records, particularly relating to Henry Chamberlain. Included are genealogies of the Chamberlain, Langdon, Woodward and Wheelock families.The letters in the early years of the collection relate to the migration of the family westward to Ohio, and then to Michigan. There is an 1830 agreement in which certain New Hampshire citizens sponsor William Chamberlain to go and scout the area above the Ohio River for...
Dates: 1795 - 1931

Charles F. Monroe papers

 Collection
Identifier: c-00064
Scope and Contents The Monroe papers consist of Charles Monroe's typewritten reminiscences, written in 1959 at age eighty-six. He discusses the history of Webberville, Michigan, the political and social life of the community, education in rural schools, market conditions and the costs of goods and services, as well as agricultural life and work. Monroe includes family history and anecdotes, especially about his father. He also includes a poem he wrote entitled "Webberville." Finally, there is a letter from...
Dates: 1959

Elizabeth Chandler papers

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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

Elizabeth Cooper Matheson diaries

 Collection
Identifier: c-00314
Scope and Contents This collection contains diaries of Elizabeth Cooper Matheson who moved with her family from Pleasantville, Pennsylvania, to Salem, Ohio in 1862, and to Riverside, Michigan in 1867. The early entries include many observations on events of the Civil War. Matheson, a Quaker, also gives details of Quaker meetings and of the Temperance Society which she joined in 1862. In addition, she describes in detail the journey from Ohio to Michigan including the crossing of Lake Erie and...
Dates: 1861 - 1873

Grace L. Hooper manuscript

 Collection
Identifier: c-00673
Scope and Content The Grace L. Hooper papers consist of the manuscript "By Trek and Sail to Grand Traverse" written by Grace L. Hooper. It is a pioneer history focusing on Antrim County in northern Michigan from its exploration by Europeans in the mid-1600s through its settlement up to the Civil War. Chapters include: In Time Gone By; Missionaries Come to Grand Traverse; Waukazooville or Northport; The First Churches; Elk Rapids; Tis A Matter of Record; Kewadin on Elk Lake; Clam River and...
Dates: undated

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Andrews, Elisha Deming (1783-1852) 1
Baker, Waldo 1
Ball, John, 1794-1884 1
Boutell family (Lorenzo Boutell, 1802-1876) 1
Brown, Vernon J. (Vernon Jacobs) 1
Chamberlain family (Henry Chamberlain, 1824-1907) 1
Chamberlain, Henry, 1824-1907 1
Chamberlain, Mellen, 1821-1900 1
Chandler, Elizabeth Margaret, 1807-1834 1
Civilian Conservation Corps (U.S.) 1
Clute, O. (Oscar) 1
Dartmouth College 1
Dooley, Mary True 1
Franklin County Immigration Society (Franklin County, Kan.) 1
Grand Rapids Historical Society (Grand Rapids, Mich.) 1
Hall family (Ernest Hall) 1
Harvard University 1
Hooper, Grace L. 1
Kersting, Marjorie 1
Kirkland family (George Kirkland, 1816-1906) 1
Kirkland, George, 1816-1906 1
Lathrop, Joseph 1
Malone, Ann McCormick 1
McCormick family 1
McKibbin family (Clifford Worden McKibbin) 1
McKibbin, Clifford W. 1
McKibbin, Emma Augusta 1
McKibbin, Joseph T. 1
McKibbin, May E. 1
McKibbin, Ruth Mead 1
Melton, Ann Eliza Aldrich 1
Michigan Historical Commission 1
Michigan State University. Class of 1912 1
Michigan State University. Class of 1937 1
Michigan State University. Delphic Society 1
Michigan. State Board of Agriculture 1
Milks, Addie E. 1
Monroe, Robert Emmet 1
North, Joseph E. 1
Olivet College 1
Rock Island Arsenal (Ill.) 1
Rolfe, Benjamin 1
Sloan family (Addie E. Milks, 1863-1940) 1
Smith, J. Irwin, Rev. 1
True family (Mary True Dooley) 1
True, Eleazer W. (1806-1874) 1
True, Frank Lathrop (1857-1928) 1
United States. Army. Michigan Cavalry Regiment, 3rd (1861-1866) 1
United States. Forest Service 1
Winans, Edwin Baruch, 1826-1894 1
Wright, Thomas 1
Wyeth, Nathaniel J. (Nathaniel Jarvis), 1802-1856 1
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