| | Manuscript Collection | Requires cookie* | | 1 | Title: | Mary Vesta Whittlesey Walton Means Childhood Recollections
| | | | Creator: | Means, Mary Vesta Whittlesey Walton | | | | Dates: | 1889 | | | | Abstract: | Mary Vesta Whittlesey Walton Means (1824-1894) was the daughter of Asaph and Vesta Hart Whittlesey, sister of Charles Whittlesey, and niece of Elisha and John Whittlesey. After her mother's death she was adopted by her uncle John and moved to Salisbury, Conn. In 1844 she married Dr. Lucius C. Walton and returned to her birthplace, Tallmadge, Ohio. Dr. Walton died in 1879 and Mary married Captain John A. Means in 1880. The collection consist of one bound volume of memoirs written in 1889, at the request of her grandchildren, when the author was 65 years old. The document consists of 110 handwritten pages describing Mrs. Means' memories of personal and family affairs and events in Tallmadge, Ohio and Salisbury, Connecticut, ca. 1828 to 1879. The first one hundred pages focus on her childhood to age twenty. Three recipes have been taped on the pages following the narrative. | | | | Call #: | MS 3932 | | | | Extent: | 0.10 linear feet (1 container) | | | | Subjects: | Means, Mary Vesta Whittlesey Walton, 1824-1894. | Whittlesey family. | Autobiography -- Women authors. | Frontier and pioneer life -- Ohio. | Women -- Ohio -- Biography. | Tallmadge (Ohio) -- Social life and customs. | Salisbury (Conn.) -- Social life and customs.
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