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| | Manuscript Collection | Save | | 1 | Title: | Abigail Reid Family Correspondence
| | | | Creator: | Reid, Abigail Family | | | | Dates: | 1823-1899 | | | | Abstract: | Abigail Reid (1804-1861) resided in Lorain County, Ohio. The collection consists of general and personal correspondence, primarily from Jerusha Whipple of Nelson, New York, to her sister, Abigail Reid, and to Dolly Murdock and Saba Jones. Includes 11 letters addressed to Conrad Reid and others (1834-1899), and a school certificate of Mary Abigail Reid (1884). | | | | Call #: | MS 3182 | | | | Extent: | 0.20 linear feet (1 container) | | | | Subjects: | Reid family. | Reid, Abigail Murdock, 1804-1861.
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| Manuscript Collection | Save | | 2 | Title: | Reid Family Papers
| | | | Creator: | Reid Family | | | | Dates: | 1797-1857 | | | | Abstract: | In 1818 Harris Reid and his wife, Sally Spencer Reid, and children, Henry M., Polly, Laura, and Eunice, moved from Connecticut to a farm in Granger Township, Medina County, Ohio. Henry married Persis Treeman in 1857 and, after three years in Michigan, they settled on the Granger Township farm inherited from her parents. The collection consists of a single volume containing the accounts of Harris and Henry M. Reid and detailing the prices of various goods and services such as medicines, livestock, food, blacksmithing, rented rooms, and labor. Also included is a brief genealogical outline of the Reid family, beginning with Harris Reid and continuing through Eunice Louisa Reid, the youngest of Harris Reid's children. | | | | Call #: | MS 3778 | | | | Extent: | 0.10 linear feet (1 container) | | | | Subjects: | Reid family. | Reid, Henry M. | Reid, Harris. | Medina County (Ohio) -- History. | Granger (Ohio : township) -- History.
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| Manuscript Collection | Save | | 3 | Title: | Isaac Reid Papers
| | | | Creator: | Reid, Isaac | | | | Dates: | 1829-1862 | | | | Abstract: | Isaac Reid of Dromore Parish, County Down, Ireland, emigrated with his wife, Agnes, and his children to Cleveland, Ohio, in 1832. After living for several years in Cleveland, where he worked in a small business and boarded immigrants, the family purchased eighty acres in Newburgh, where they farmed and raised cattle, hogs, and sheep. Reid and his family were members of the First Presbyterian Society of Newburgh, he serving as both trustee and treasurer for several terms throughout the 1840s-1850s. His daughters were married in Newburgh; Mary Ann to Alvah Ruggles, and Elizabeth to George Dunbar, both in 1857. George Dunbar was employed by Reid as a laborer on his farm. Both Reid, his son-in-law George Dunbar, and his grandchildren remained in Newburgh after it became a part of Cleveland. Dunbar and his eldest sons were employed in the iron industry and in local businesses, while Reid lived on Harvard Street and was employed as a laborer. Isaac Reid died in 1886. The collection consists of a ledger/letterbook; receipts, a family register, and notes removed from that volume; notes and transcripts of the contents of the volume; and a Newburgh, Ohio, school register. | | | | Call #: | MS 4704 | | | | Extent: | 0.20 linear feet (1 container) | | | | Subjects: | Reid, Isaac, 1798-1886. | Reid family. | Dunbar family. | Irish American families -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Irish American families -- Ohio -- Newburgh. | Irish Americans -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Irish Americans -- Ohio -- Newburgh. | Schools -- Ohio -- Newburgh. | Immigrants -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Newburgh (Ohio) -- History.
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| Manuscript Collection | Save | | 4 | Title: | Zachariah Regan Papers
| | | | Creator: | Regan, Zachariah | | | | Dates: | 1808-1828 | | | | Abstract: | Zachariah Regan and his family settled in Little Beaver Creek, Beaver County, Pennsylvania, in the early nineteenth century. His daughter Mary married John McLeish, who served in the 9th Ohio Independent Battery during the American Civil War. Mary and John McLeish settled in the the 18th ward of Cleveland, Ohio, by 1880, and their daughter Nannie married William Reid Dunbar at the South Presbyterian Church in 1881. The collection consists of land surveys, court records, deeds, contracts, and estate papers, which primarily concern Zachariah Regan's land holdings in Beaver County, Pennsylvania. | | | | Call #: | MS 4705 | | | | Extent: | 0.10 linear feet (1 container) | | | | Subjects: | Regan, Zachariah, d. 1827. | Regan family. | McLeish family. | Dunbar family. | Reid family. | Court records -- Pennsylvania -- Beaver County. | Irish Americans -- Pennsylvania -- Beaver County. | Irish American families -- Pennsylvania -- Beaver County. | Deeds -- Pennsylvania -- Beaver County. | Land titles -- Pennsylvania -- Beaver County. | Frontier and pioneer life -- Pennsylvania -- Beaver County. | Beaver County (Pa.) -- History -- 19th century.
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