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Watkins Glen (N.Y.) -- Religious life and customs.

 Subject
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Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:

Benjamin Russell papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 2181
Scope and content Contains one volume of autobiographical material and diary entries and correspondence. Volume contains an autobiographical sketch of Russell's youth, dealing mainly with his earnest desire to become a minister despite poor health and poverty and his efforts to educated himself, and diary entries (1833-1842) concerning his theological studies, work as the Chautauqua County agent of the American Bible Society,lectures on temperance, preaching in Western New York both before and after his...
Dates: 1833-1891.

Marcellus M. Cass papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 231
Scope and content

Written reports of seances held by Cass in Watkins Glen, New York; the favorite spirits are John Locke, St. Mark, St. Luke, Napoleon, Josephine Bonaparte, Confucius, Henry Clay, and Daniel Webster; Cass also wrote on Spirit Phenomena and other religious subjects.

Dates: 1877-1906.

St. Mary of the Lake Roman Catholic Church of Watkins Glen records

 Collection
Identifier: 6093
Abstract

One volume baptismal and marriage records (1848-1869) in Latin.

Dates: 1848-1868.