Genesee County (Mich.)
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 6 Collections and/or Records:
Fay family papers
Collection
Identifier: c-00115
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of correspondence between members of the Fay family living in Middletown and Westfield, Connecticut, and in Genesee County, Michigan. The letters discuss agricultural and economic prospects, religious concerns, family matters, and social activities.
Dates:
1832 - 1875
Michigan Dairymen's Association records
Collection
Identifier: c-00518
Scope and Contents
The collection consists of a scrapbook of newspaper clippings, contest forms, circulars, announcements and other materials of the Michigan Dairymen's Association.
Dates:
1914 - 1916
W. C. Colbrath papers
Collection
Identifier: c-00254
Scope and Contents
This collection contains receipts and business papers of W. C. Colbrath of Genesee County, Michigan.
Dates:
1898 - 1908
Waterous family papers
Collection
Identifier: c-00327
Scope and Contents
The collection contains letter fragments, receipts, handbills, copies of a hand-written newspapers, and business and household accounts of John, Edward, and Purden Waterous, who moved from Avon, New York, to the Grand Blanc area of Michigan (circa 1830).Three ledgers - "cider books" - record the business transactions of Edward Waterous' New York distillery. Dated from 1807-1829, the ledgers note customers' names, grain and whiskey prices, and some grocery prices. A whiskey tax...
Dates:
1800 - 1910
Waters family correspondence
Collection
Identifier: c-00325
Scope and Contents
This collection contains five letters relating family matters, three of them from Achsa Waters of Independence and Union, Michigan, to her family (Otis) in Steuben County, New York. She mentions visits to Oberlin, Ohio; a trip through Memphis to Vicksburg, Mississippi (1864) to teach the "colored people" and to deliver clothing from Oberlin and Union. Another letter, form Otis B. Waters of Genessee County, New York to his uncle, talks of finances and an impending trip "West" to be married....
Dates:
1860 - 1865
Wixom family papers
Collection
Identifier: c-00131
Scope and Contents
The Wixom family papers contain a number of land title transfers and other documents relating to Oakland, Genesee, Ionia, Montcalm, and Shiawassee Counties, Michigan. The collection includes a mandate to collect school taxes (1839), a federal income tax return for 1865, records of major family expenses for 1886-1888, and deposit certificates from the Milford State Bank dated 1887 and 1907. The collection also contains petitions (1871) from residents of Milford, Commerce, Novi, and Lyon,...
Dates:
1822 - 1907