Format | • | Manuscript Collection | [X] |
Subject | • | Akron (Ohio) -- History. |
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| | • | Akron (Ohio) -- Maps. |
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| | • | Akron (Ohio) -- Surveys. |
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| | • | Antislavery movements -- Ohio. |
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| | • | Canals -- Design and construction -- Costs. |
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| | • | Canals -- Design and construction. |
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| | • | Canals -- Law and legislation -- Ohio. |
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| | • | Canals -- Ohio -- Akron -- Rates and tolls. |
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| | • | Canals -- Ohio. |
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| | • | Commissioners of deeds -- Ohio. |
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| | • | Elyria (Ohio) -- History. |
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| | • | Hamlin, Edward Stowe, 1808-1894. |
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| | • | Kelley, Alfred, 1789-1859. | [X] | | • | Kingsbury, Harmon. |
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| | • | Lawyers -- Ohio -- Akron. |
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| | • | Lawyers -- Ohio -- Cleveland. |
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| | • | Lawyers -- Ohio -- Elyria. |
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| | • | Liberty Party (U.S.) |
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| | • | Miami and Erie Canal (Ohio). |
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| | • | Ohio and Erie Canal (Ohio) -- History. |
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| | • | Ohio and Erie Canal (Ohio) -- Rates and tolls. |
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| | • | Ohio and Erie Canal (Ohio). |
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| | • | Ohio. Board of Canal Commissioners. |
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| | • | Ohio. Court of Common Pleas (Lorain County). |
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| | • | Portage County Temperance Society (Ohio). |
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| | • | Postal service -- Ohio -- Akron -- History. |
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| | • | Postmasters -- Ohio -- Akron. |
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| | • | Sons of Temperance of North America. Elyria Division, No. 400 (Elyria, OH). |
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| | • | Temperance -- Ohio -- Societies, etc. |
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| | • | Wade, Edward, 1802-1866. |
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| | • | Wade, Welles, and Hamlin. |
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| | • | Welles, Melancthon Woolsey, 1802-1896. |
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| | Manuscript Collection | Save | | 1 | Title: | Ohio Board of Canal Commissioners Records, Series II
| | | | Creator: | Ohio Board of Canal Commissioners | | | | Dates: | 1825-1914 | | | | Abstract: | The Ohio Board of Canal Commissioners was created in 1822 through an act passed by the State of Ohio General Assembly. Early members included Thomas Worthington, Isaac Minor, and Alfred Kelley. Their duties were to examine, survey, and estimate the practicality of a canal connecting the Ohio River with Lake Erie, and to make an estimation of cost. During construction of the Ohio and Erie Canal, each commissioner was responsible for certain sections of the canal, including hiring laborers, engineers, and building suppliers. In the 1830s, Commissioners continued to mange the completed waterway, employing toll collectors, maintenance laborers, and resident engineers. Commissioners also approved requests for water rights and were responsible for the canal's finances. The canal continued to operate until a flood in 1913 destroyed much of it. The collection consists of correspondence, proposals for work on the canal, receipts for supplies ordered and delivered, legal records, and engineers' notes and reports. Most of the material documents the first twenty years of the canal's operation between Akron and Cleveland, including its planning and construction. Includes correspondence, both pro and con, concerning construction of a canal, letters requesting jobs and water rights for sawmills near the locks, and proposals for work digging the canal by individual property owners. Alfred Kelley is well-represented in the material contained in this collection. | | | | Call #: | MS 4658 | | | | Extent: | 0.20 linear feet (1 container) | | | | Subjects: | Kelley, Alfred, 1789-1859. | Ohio. Board of Canal Commissioners. | Canals -- Design and construction. | Canals -- Design and construction -- Costs. | Canals -- Law and legislation -- Ohio. | Canals -- Ohio. | Ohio and Erie Canal (Ohio).
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| Manuscript Collection | Save | | 2 | Title: | Ohio Board of Canal Commissioners Records, Series III
| | | | Creator: | Ohio Board of Canal Commissioners | | | | Dates: | 1824-1826 | | | | Abstract: | The Ohio Board of Canal Commissioners was created in 1822 through an act passed by the State of Ohio General Assembly. Early members included Thomas Worthington, Isaac Minor, and Alfred Kelley. Their duties were to examine, survey, and estimate the practicality of canals connecting the Ohio River with Lake Erie, and to make an estimation of cost. During construction of the Ohio and Erie Canal and the Miami and Erie Canal, each commissioner was responsible for certain sections of the canal, including hiring laborers, engineers, and building suppliers. In the 1830s, Commissioners continued to mange the completed waterway, employing toll collectors, maintenance laborers, and resident engineers. Commissioners also approved requests for water rights and were responsible for the canal's finances. The collection consists of payment vouchers for work done on the Ohio and Erie Canal, signed by Commissioner Alfred Kelley from 1824-1826, and on the Miami and Erie Canal, signed by Commissioner Micajah J. Williams from 1825-1826. | | | | Call #: | MS 4686 | | | | Extent: | 0.20 linear feet (1 container) | | | | Subjects: | Kelley, Alfred, 1789-1859. | Ohio. Board of Canal Commissioners. | Canals -- Design and construction. | Canals -- Design and construction -- Costs. | Canals -- Ohio. | Ohio and Erie Canal (Ohio). | Miami and Erie Canal (Ohio).
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| Manuscript Collection | Save | | 3 | Title: | Melancthon Woolsey Welles Papers
| | | | Creator: | Welles, Melancthon Woolsey | | | | Dates: | 1818-1896 | | | | Abstract: | Melancthon Woolsey Welles came to Cleveland, Ohio, ca. 1819 to study law at the firm of Kelley and Cowles. His sister, Mary Seymour Welles, had married prominent Clevelander Alfred Kelley in 1817. Welles was admitted to the Ohio bar in 1823. He then moved to Elyria, Lorain County, Ohio, and was appointed the first prosecuting attorney for that county in 1824. In 1826, Welles became the first toll collector at Akron, Ohio, on the Ohio and Erie Canal. While in Akron, he also served as the first postmaster, was a justice of the peace, and practiced law. Welles was a member of the Portage County Temperance Society, an incorporator of the Akron Lyceum and Library Association, and an agent for the Ohio State Temperance Society. He returned to Elyria in 1835 to practice law. In 1837, Welles moved to Cleveland and entered into a law partnership with Edward Wade and Edward Hamlin. He continued his involvement with temperance and antislavery groups while living in Cleveland. In 1841, he returned to Elyria, continuing his antislavery and temperance endeavors. Welles also served as a Commissioner of deeds for the State of Ohio and a Notary Public for Lorain County. During the 1840s, he became a member of the Liberty Party, and subsequently, the Free Soil Party. In 1849, through the auspices of Dr. Norton S. Townshend, Welles was appointed state agent for the sale of school lands, and moved to Defiance, Defiance County, Ohio. By 1860, Welles was living at Fort Dodge, Webster County, Iowa, and working as a land agent. He remained in Iowa the rest of his life. The collection consists of accounts, a journal, letters, articles of agreement, notes, memoranda, newspaper circular letters, newspaper clippings, deeds, receipts, drafts, commissions and appointments, business cards, a speech, a petition, and a constitution. Of particular interest to the study of early Akron, Ohio, is a photocopy of a ca. 1825 manuscript map of the village. The original map has been removed to the Manuscript Map Collection as MS Map 486A. Also of interest is a circular letter from the Executive Committee of the Portage County Temperance Society, signed by Welles and dated 1829, and a constitution, bylaws, and rules of order of the Sons of Temperance of the State of Ohio, Elyria Division, No. 400, dated 1848. | | | | Call #: | MS 4759 | | | | Extent: | 0.20 linear feet (1 container) | | | | Subjects: | Welles, Melancthon Woolsey, 1802-1896. | Kelley, Alfred, 1789-1859. | Kingsbury, Harmon. | Wade, Edward, 1802-1866. | Hamlin, Edward Stowe, 1808-1894. | Wade, Welles, and Hamlin. | Sons of Temperance of North America. Elyria Division, No. 400 (Elyria, OH). | Portage County Temperance Society (Ohio). | Liberty Party (U.S.) | Ohio. Court of Common Pleas (Lorain County). | Ohio and Erie Canal (Ohio) -- History. | Ohio and Erie Canal (Ohio) -- Rates and tolls. | Canals -- Ohio -- Akron -- Rates and tolls. | Postmasters -- Ohio -- Akron. | Postal service -- Ohio -- Akron -- History. | Lawyers -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Lawyers -- Ohio -- Akron. | Lawyers -- Ohio -- Elyria. | Temperance -- Ohio -- Societies, etc. | Antislavery movements -- Ohio. | Commissioners of deeds -- Ohio. | Akron (Ohio) -- History. | Akron (Ohio) -- Maps. | Akron (Ohio) -- Surveys. | Elyria (Ohio) -- History.
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