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Hamilton Edwards receipts and clippings

Collection — manuscript box: 4 - folder 1

Identifier: 570m

Scope and content

Receipts for extensive purchases by Edwards or his wife from hardware stores, a jeweler, a grocery store, and a blacksmith in Whitney Point and Lisle, listing items purchased and prices. Store owners include P.H. Landers, Daniels & Ford, A. Inderlied, F.O. Willis, J. Fenner, Charles J. Allen, and A.D. Lewis. Also, newspaper clippings of articles on various topics, including an obituary for Mary Whiting of Binghamton, New York, the last grandchild of Union College president Edwards.

Dates

1873-1910.

Creator

Edwards, Hamilton. (Person)

Language of Material

In English.

Biographical / Historical

Evidently a descendant of the younger Jonathan Edwards, who was president of Union College in Schenectady, New York from 1799-1801. Hamilton Edwards lived in or near Whitney Point, New York.