Scope and Content

The Michael B. Pate collection contains one photocopied account of Pate's trip aboard the Ann Arbor Railroad in July 1989. His account begins in Owosso and ends in Elberta, Michigan.

Scope and Contents This collection contains an account book (1829-1851) of William Whiteley containing entries made in Toledo (1837), Cillicothe (1838), Zanesville (1840), Washington (1848) and Lansing (1848). From 1829 to 1836 Whiteley may have been a shoe dealer, since all entries in the period are for shoes. Other commodities, including food, wine, hardware, clothing, room and board, and labor wages, are entered in the ledger beginning in 1836. In 1848 most of the entries are for household items, livestock,...