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Contains three diaries of Chauncey Smith Nichols which report on social events, school attendance, family news and everyday activities (1860,1864, 1865). The 1864 volume includes financial records. Also included is a resolution to establish and a constitution for the Methodist Female Missionary Society on the Hector circuit (April 9, 1845).

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Diaries kept by a young woman while whe tried to earn her living by teaching school in Schuyler County, N.Y. and after she returned to live with her family include comments on daily activities, marriages, deaths and illnesses of friends, church attendance and revivals and opinions on current events.

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Typescript diaries of Gilbert S. Hillerman, a farmer from Reading, Schuyler County, New York.

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Hathaway family, Watkins Glen, Schuyler County (N.Y.) papers and correspondence discuss the Friends Society, the Abolitionist movement, life in a poor house, and the Women's Christian Temperance Union; includes photographs.

Scope and content The collection consists of 55 separate bound diaries (1850-1902, 1904-1905) written by Edwin Mead about his activities in the Presbyterian Church as an elder, trustee, and Sunday School superintendant; his observations concerning world, national, and local events; comments on lectures, social events, customs, religion, current issues, friends and relatives, and weather conditions. Also included are cash accounts in back of most of the diaries. There are also two bound diaries that were...

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Miscellaneous documents include two letters to Hiram White from Henry W. Sage (Ithaca) discussing payment of a note and for a horse, a liquor license granted to Hiram White and a receipt from a New York liquor dealer, and four letters from Civil War soldiers J. M. Brown, Royal S. White, Herman Sawyer and Captain G. V. White discussing war clothing allotment, duties, salary, souvenirs, battles, and recruits. Schuyler County.