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This collection contains bank records including bank and account statements of various concerns, cancelled checks from Eaton County Bank, the Banking House of Dutton & Williams, and the City National Bank, and notices of deposit. All are from Dutton & Williams, bankers in Eaton Rapids, Michigan.

Scope and Contents The Horner Woolen Mills collection consists primarily of correspondence and financial records, the bulk of which date from 1903 to 1919.The correspondence series, including general correspondence, letterpress copies of outgoing letters, and quotations and estimates, relate mostly to the mill's activities between 1907 and 1914. These partially document daily operations; the company's investment in real estate in Michigan and Oklahoma; and its interest, as contract creditors to the...

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This collection consists of a letter from James I. Rogers, of Eaton County, Michigan to his brother and sister in Wyoming County, New York, giving a very detailed inventory of his farm and an account of his agricultural prospects. Rogers describes the schools, businesses, and professions in the new town of Eaton Rapids, and tells about the building of the early state capital in Lansing.

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This collection contains Mabel Henderson Hutchinson's scrapbooks which include an autobiographical sketch from birth to 1943 with many mementos from school, friends, activities and news clippings. Mabel kept extensive journals of each Florida trip she and her husband took, as well as other trips across the west. Also included in the collection are photographs of relatives of the John Henderson family, friends and their families and a sewing book done by Mabel.

Scope and Contents The Miller Dairy Farms records of their ice cream enterprise is comprised of 1 general account book from 1900-1904; 28 ice cream order books from 1910-1932; 10 receipt books from 1930-1948; 3 expense journals from 1943-1950; and various other account volumes from 1930-1945. There are receipts from 1902-1949; correspondence from 1910-1949; various financial papers from 1912-1945; and advertisements and customer lists. A 75th anniversary edition of the Miller's Farm News...