| | Manuscript Collection | Requires cookie* | | 1 | Title: | Burrows Family Papers
| | | | Creator: | Burrows Family | | | | Dates: | 1892-1932 | | | | Abstract: | Charles William Burrows was president of Burrows Brothers Company, a book and stationery firm, which he founded in Cleveland, Ohio, with his brother Harris B. in 1873. Charles was manager of Burrows Publishing Company until 1912, when the brothers sold the business. Charles' daughters were Lorna Dorothea Burrows and Gladys Elgin Mott Boyd. Burrows has become Ohio's leading book, stationery, and office-supply firm. The collection consists of an unidentified diary possibly belonging to J.S. Boyd, family correspondence, composition books and school papers, historical reminiscences, and genealogical notes on the Hanford, Smith and Bouton families. | | | | Call #: | MS 4366 | | | | Extent: | 0.20 linear feet (1 container) | | | | Subjects: | Burrows family. | Smith family. | Bouton family. | Hanford family.
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| Manuscript Collection | Requires cookie* | | 2 | Title: | Jerome B. Burrows Family Papers
| | | | Creator: | Burrows, Jerome B. Family | | | | Dates: | 1853-1913 | | | | Abstract: | Jerome B. Burrows was captain of the 14th Independent Battery, Ohio Volunteer Light Artillery, Mayor of Painesville, Ohio (ca. 1866), and judge of the Seventh Circuit Court of Ohio. His son, Jerome S. Burrows, was a student at Western Reserve College (late 1870s) and proprietor of The Painesville Telegraph. The collection consists of letters to Jerome B. and Jerome S. Burrows and other members of their family concerning personal and legal matters, the operation of The Painesville Telegraph, Republican Party politics in Lake County, Ohio, and political and economic affairs in Kansas and Iowa during the mid-1850s. Correspondents include Julius C. Burrows, Ezra B. Taylor, S.H. Tolles, and other United States Representatives, judges, and lawyers. | | | | Call #: | MS 2394 | | | | Extent: | 0.60 linear feet (2 containers) | | | | Subjects: | Burrows family. | Burrows, Jerome B. | Painesville Telegraph. | Lake County (Ohio) -- Politics and government. | Iowa -- History -- Sources. | Kansas -- History -- 1854-1861 -- Sources.
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