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| | Manuscript Collection | Save | | 82 | Title: | G.H. Muller Diary
| | | | Creator: | Muller, G. H. | | | | Dates: | 1794 | | | | Abstract: | Written in French, this diary of G. H. Muller reflects daily activities of the writer and his frequent contacts with members of his family. Most of the surnames written in the diary are German. | | | | Call #: | MS 0072 | | | | Extent: | 0.20 linear feet (1 volume) | | | | Subjects: | Muller, G.H. | Diaries. | French diaries.
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| Manuscript Collection | Save | | 85 | Title: | George K. Jenkins Papers
| | | | Creator: | Jenkins, George K. | | | | Dates: | 1788-1887 | | | | Abstract: | George K. Jenkins was a Quaker teacher in Mount Pleasant, Ohio, during the nineteenth century. The collection includes minutes, lists of certificates, members and marriages, and other records of various meetings of the Society of Friends in Delaware, New Jersey, Ohio, Pennsylvania and Virginia; records of Quaker schools and organizations, including the Ohio Yearly Meeting and its Committee on Indian Affairs, the New Garden Monthly Meeting, the Short Creek Meeting, and the Free Produce Association. Includes a journal of Jenkins' observations of Quaker colonies he visited in Canada, Indiana, Michigan, Ohio and West Virginia; an account of the immigration of William Harrison from York County, Virginia, to Mount Pleasant, Ohio (1817); and a memoranda book (1849-60) kept by David Updegraff on visits to Yearly Meetings in Indiana, Maryland and Pennsylvania. | | | | Call #: | MS 0100 | | | | Extent: | 1.80 linear feet (4 containers and 2 oversize volumes) | | | | Subjects: | Church schools -- Ohio -- Mount Pleasant. | Quakers -- Canada. | Quakers -- United States. | Quakers -- Ohio. | Quakers -- Ohio -- Mount Pleasant -- Education. | United States -- Description and travel -- 1783-1848.
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| Manuscript Collection | Save | | 86 | Title: | Harmon Family Papers
| | | | Creator: | Harmon Family | | | | Dates: | 1766-1885 | | | | Abstract: | The Harmon family moved to Mantua, Portage County, Ohio from Suffield Connecticut, in 1799. Elias Harmon held several public offices and was land agent for many Connecticut residents. His son, Orrin, was active in the land business and was surveyor for Portage County and the Pennsylvania and Ohio Canal. Julian Harmon was the son of Orrin. The collection contains the papers of Elias, Orrin, Julian and Martin Harmon. Includes correspondence, diaries, financial accounts and receipts, land deeds and memoranda of sales, legal documents, estate papers, powers of attorney, tax records, notebooks, surveys, and other papers, documenting their note collection and land agency business. Also, includes material on the Protection Life Insurance Co. of Hartford, the Franklin and Warren Railroad, the Pennsylvania and Ohio Canal, the Independent Knights of Temperance, and the fur trade and anti-slavery movement, with references to state and national politics, banking policies, and anti-masonic movements. | | | | Call #: | MS 0104 | | | | Extent: | 5.40 linear feet (14 containers) | | | | Subjects: | Harmon family. | Pennsylvania and Ohio Canal. | Independent Knights of Temperance. | Temperance -- Ohio -- Societies, etc. | Peddlers and peddling -- Ohio -- Western Reserve. | Deeds -- Ohio -- Portage County. | Real property -- Ohio -- Western Reserve. | Real property -- Ohio -- Portage County. | Fur trade -- United States. | Executors and administrators -- Ohio -- Western Reserve. | Antislavery movements -- United States. | Mantua (Ohio) -- History -- Sources. | Portage County (Ohio) -- History -- Sources. | Portage County (Ohio) -- Surveys. | Western Reserve (Ohio) -- History -- Sources. | Ohio -- Politics and government -- 1787-1865. | United States -- Politics and government -- 1783-1865. | Western Reserve (Ohio) -- Surveys.
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| Manuscript Collection | Save | | 87 | Title: | Samuel Bissell Papers
| | | | Creator: | Bissell, Samuel | | | | Dates: | 1797-1933 | | | | Abstract: | Samuel Bissell (1797-1895) was a congregational minister and educator in Twinsburg, Ohio. The collection consists of a diary (1819) of a visit to New Haven, Connecticut; album of autographs (1823) of classmates of Bissell at Yale University; account books; daybooks (1825-1875) relating to the Twinsburg Institute; correspondence (1825-1895) with the Office of Indian Affairs, and other papers concerning efforts of Bissell on behalf of Indian youths; sermons; mortgage deeds, financial papers, and ledgers. Includes letters and receipts of parents of Bissell, Robert and Thankful Bissell, of Aurora, Ohio, and correspondence with the Western Reserve Historical Society and the Samuel Bissell Memorial Library Association of Twinsburg, Ohio. | | | | Call #: | MS 0116 | | | | Extent: | 1.80 linear feet (4 containers and 3 oversize volumes) | | | | Subjects: | Bissell, Samuel, 1797-1895. | Yale College -- Students. | College students -- Connecticut -- New Haven -- Autographs. | Sermons, American. | Indian youth -- North America. | New Haven (Conn.) -- Description and travel. | United States -- Description and travel -- 1783-1848.
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| Manuscript Collection | Save | | 89 | Title: | Documents Signed by Ohio Governors
| | | | Creator: | Documents Signed by Ohio Governors | | | | Dates: | 1787-1916 | | | | Abstract: | The collection consists primarily commissions and other certificates signed by Ohio chief executives from the first governor, Edward Tiffin, to the 48th, Frank B. Willis. Includes several documents signed by Arthur St. Clair, Governor of the Northwest Territory, 1787-1802. | | | | Call #: | MS 0143 | | | | Extent: | 0.40 linear feet (1 container) | | | | Subjects: | Governors -- Ohio -- Autographs.
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| Manuscript Collection | Save | | 91 | Title: | General Relief Committee Records
| | | | Creator: | General Relief Committee | | | | Dates: | 1871-1872 | | | | Abstract: | The General Relief Committee was a disaster relief committee in Cleveland, Ohio, which sent tools, clothing and food to areas damaged by fire in Michigan, Wisconsin and Chicago, Illinois. The collection consists of correspondence, shipping orders, lists of donors, and receipts relating to the activities of the committee and of its chairman, General James Barnett. | | | | Call #: | MS 0151 | | | | Extent: | 0.40 linear feet (1 container) | | | | Subjects: | General Relief Committee (Cleveland, Ohio). | Disaster relief -- United States. | Charities -- Ohio -- Cleveland.
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| Manuscript Collection | Save | | 93 | Title: | Cleveland Insurance Company Records
| | | | Creator: | Cleveland Insurance Company | | | | Dates: | 1831-1865 | | | | Abstract: | The Cleveland Insurance Company was an insurance company in Cleveland, Ohio, which was originally directed by Peter M. Waddell, Leonard Case, Horace Perry, John M. Sterling, Edmund Clark, and James S. Clarke. The collection consists of a book of subscriptions for capital stock in the company, minutes of directors' meetings, and poll books of elections for directors. | | | | Call #: | MS 0157 | | | | Extent: | 0.20 linear feet (1 container) | | | | Subjects: | Cleveland Insurance Company (Cleveland, Ohio) | Insurance companies -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Management. | Insurance companies -- Ohio -- Cleveland.
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| Manuscript Collection | Save | | 95 | Title: | Joseph Badger Papers
| | | | Creator: | Badger, Joseph | | | | Dates: | 1823-1848 | | | | Abstract: | Joseph Badger (1757-1846) was the first missionary to settle in the Western Reserve (Ohio). The collection consists of copies of the sermons (1825-1841) delivered by the Rev. Badger, mostly in Gustavus, Trumbull County, Ohio, and several pages from his diary concerning the building of a schoolhouse (1823) and a trip through Shawnee Indian country to Wapakoneta, Ohio, with observations on Indian customs. Includes four sermons delivered by Rev. Isaac Van Tassel (1831-1848). | | | | Call #: | MS 0200 | | | | Extent: | 0.20 linear feet (1 container) | | | | Subjects: | Badger, Joseph, 1757-1846. | Clergy -- Ohio. | Missionaries -- Ohio. | Clergy -- Ohio -- Western Reserve. | Missionaries -- Ohio -- Western Reserve. | Sermons, American. | Indians of North America -- Ohio. | Shawnee Indians. | Ohio -- Description and travel.
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| Manuscript Collection | Save | | 98 | Title: | Journal
| | | | Creator: | Journal | | | | Dates: | 1824-1827 | | | | Abstract: | The collection consists of a journal kept by an unidentified itinerant preacher who traveled from Princeton, New Jersey, through New York, Connecticut, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, and Ohio. In Ohio he preached at Sandusky, Norwalk, Elyria, Cleveland, Painesville, Madison, and several villages in Ashtabula County. Includes brief comments on the places he visited, the people he met, and his unusual experiences. | | | | Call #: | MS 0212 | | | | Extent: | 0.10 linear feet (1 container) | | | | Subjects: | Diaries. | Clergy -- United States -- Diaries. | Travelers -- United States -- Diaries. | United States -- Description and travel -- 1783-1848.
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| Manuscript Collection | Save | | 100 | Title: | Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A., Cleveland Presbytery, Woman's Foreign Missionary Society Records
| | | | Creator: | Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A., Cleveland Presbytery, Woman's Foreign Missionary Society | | | | Dates: | 1872-1915 | | | | Abstract: | The Woman's Foreign Missionary Society was a Presbyterian missionary society founded in 1872 in Cleveland, Ohio, to support the foreign missionary work of the Presbyterian Church. It was formally united with the Women's Home Missionary Society on March 14, 1914. The object of this society was to assist in sending and sustaining female missionaries in foreign lands. The collection consists of a constitution, membership lists, minutes of quarterly and special meetings, and reports from the visiting sections located throughout Ohio. | | | | Call #: | MS 0241 | | | | Extent: | 0.40 linear feet (5 volumes in 1 container) | | | | Subjects: | Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. -- Missions -- Societies, etc. -- Archives. | Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Cleveland Presbytery. Woman's Foreign Missionary Society. | Women in charitable work. | Women in church work -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Women in missionary work. | Presbyterian women -- Ohio -- Cleveland.
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