Scope and content Papers (1848-77) of Mrs. MacFarland's great-grandfather, William Parshall Springer are concerned with the invention and sale of the Springer Smut Machine for cleaning wheat and include patent papers, specifications, a testimonial letter, broadsides and trade cards advertising the machine, and daguerreotypes of the American Institute medal awarded to Springer for his invention; papers (1792-1943) of Springer's grandson and Mrs. MacFarland's father, William Alfred Comstock, a DeWitt, New York,...

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Newspaper and magazine articles on the history of Herkimer County, New York and the growth of the cheese industry, including the role of Harry Burrell, his son D.H. Burrell, and others in the Burrell family.

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Personal letters to members of the Ward and Cooper families, mostly about family matters, but also containing some comments on national politics, travels in India and Egypt, a visit to a slave pen in St. Louis (1861), and the extensive public interest in education in Doylestown, Pennsylvania (1820); also, miscellaneous deeds and indentures (1792-1846) pertaining to land in Connecticut, and Herkimer County, New York.

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Typescript essay, "How Herkimer County Got Its Free Schools," compiled by the Commercial Department of the Mohawk Central School from the writings of Dr. S. C. Kim[m], May 1945 (29 leaves); a section of the newspaper The Evening Times, Little Falls, New York, containing an article on the old Fairfield Seminary by Silas C. Kimm, February 23, 1946; and an article reprinted from the Evening Times titled "A Tribute to Dr. Kimm," April 12, 1922.