Families -- New York (State) -- Herkimer County
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 5 Collections and/or Records:
Abijah Beckwith papers
Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924064918901]
Identifier: 2513
Scope and content
A combined notebook and scrapbook, kept by Beckwith for his grandson and namesake, contains his handwritten histories of himself and his forefathers, including his account of soldiering at Sackett's Harbor in the War of 1812; political opinions, including a long essay entitled "Our Nation, Slavery: Its Worst Evil," describing slavery in the United States, the public attitude towards the Fugitive Slave Law, and national excitement over the Compromises of 1820 and 1850 and documenting...
Dates:
1847-1977.
Amelia and Eliza May letters
Collection — Manuscript box 10 - folder 1: [Barcode: 31924065241519]
Identifier: 1417
Scope and content
Letters chiefly to Mrs. Amelia Stoddard May of Newport (Herkimer County), N.Y. and her daughter Eliza, from relatives in Connecticut including Mrs. May's father Ebenezer Stoddard, Sr. comment on the Spring legislative session in Connecticut (1836) and the decline of the Whig Party, expansion of shoe manufacturing in New England, family matters and neighbors in Woodstock, Conn. In addition, one letter from a school friend in Warsaw (Wyoming County), N.Y., discusses the local dance school,...
Dates:
1836-1854.
Eliza Ives papers
Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924064926573]
Identifier: 1266
Scope and content
Series of 31 letters (July 24, 1864 - July 11, 1868) to Eliza (Lizzie) Ives, a school girl in Salisbury, New York. Written by friends and relatives while Miss Ives was attending school in Little Falls, New York and by former classmates after her return home, the letters contain comment on social life in small-town America in the mid-19th century and give some picture of current educational practices and attitudes both from the point of view of the student and of the neophyte "schoolmarm."...
Dates:
1813-1868,-1864-1868 (bulk)
Hopson family papers
Collection — Box 15: [Barcode: 31924064699774]
Identifier: 4247
Abstract
Farm records and family papers.
Dates:
[ca.1900-1980].
Ives family papers
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 6961
Scope and content
Records of several generations of Ives family members and their associated businesses. Includes unidentified day book from Lyons and Salisbury, N.Y., 1848; letters and documents, 1852-1858, relating to James H. Ives. Items relating to Charles Lewis Ives include a letter and a a penmanship book, 1862; two account books, 1863; and five cash books, 1864. Also miscellaneous items relating to the Manheim Cheese Factory, 1872-1875 and Cook & Ives Cheese Factory, 1882-189?; an account book,...
Dates:
1848-1950.