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Penn Yan (N.Y.) -- Social life and customs.

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings DO NOT USE

Found in 5 Collections and/or Records:

Miller family miscellany

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 889
Scope and content

Programs and other material relating to the Penn Yan Academy in the 1890s; original humorous verse; correspondence regarding Jessie Mabel Miller's admission to Wellesley College, 1892; bills, receipts, and legal documents of Samuel and David Miller; clippings relating to the use of steamers on Keuka Lake; material relating to the Methodist Church in Penn Yan; commemorative badges; pamphlets and atlases.

Dates: 1799-1805.

Miller family papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 408
Scope and content

Correspondence, deeds, receipts and bills, dairy account books, vineyard accounts, photographs, broadsides, pamphlets, journals, and other papers of a Penn Yan, New York family. Scrapbooks with postcards of travel, such as Denmark.

Dates: 1760-1908.

Oliver Sheppard papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 395
Scope and content Papers of the Cornell University Class of 1874 include class statistics, programs, notebooks, clippings, photographs, tickets, and material pertaining to an 1898 reunion. Also, minutes, lodge books, certificates, communications, and other documents pertaining to Sheppard's involvement in the Masonic order in Yates and Ontario Counties, New York; also, correspondence with John Livy Lewis. Sheppard personal correspondence refers to Hamilton College and Yale University, and local and national...
Dates: 1841-1914.

Samuel S. Mariner diary

 Collection — Microfilm reel 1
Identifier: 6147
Scope and content The diary of Samuel S. Mariner of Penn Yann, N.Y. is divided into two sections, the first section is an index of names, locations and subjects mentioned in the diary and a brief genealogy of the Mariner family. The second section is a record of Samuel's life from ages 23 to 26. Topics covered include work, travel, visitors, property, weather, agriculture, discourses on pastors and sermon topics, political observations, marriages, births, illnesses, deaths, concerts, fairs, and town...
Dates: 1854-1857.

Sons of Temperance of Penn Yan record book

 Collection — Microfilm reel 1
Identifier: 6129
Scope and content

Printed text of the constitution for the Keuka Divison number 72, Sons of Temperance, a membership list, financial records (1847-1848), a list of fees collected for membership cards (1852), and a list of fees collected for initiations. A chart of flower types and scribbled notes (1866, 1877), unrelated to the bulk of the volume are also contained in it.

Dates: 1847-1848.