| | Manuscript Collection | Requires cookie* | | 1 | Title: | Lewis Schaaf Diary
| | | | Creator: | Schaaf, Lewis | | | | Dates: | 1868-1872 | | | | Abstract: | Lewis Schaaf was a Brooklyn, Ohio, native who traveled to California and Nevada in 1868, working as a teamster and logcutter in the Sierra Nevada mountains before becoming disenchanted with life on the frontier and returning to Ohio three years later. The collection consists of an electrostatic copy of a diary chronicling Schaaf's experiences on the far Western frontier. The diary details Schaaf's journey west by ship via Panama and his life in a lumber camp in the Sierra Nevadas, describing the social life on the frontier, including his involvement in the local Odd Fellows lodge, the celebration at the completion of the transcontinental railroad, as well as train robberies and community destruction from fires. Included are everyday details of pioneering life such as recipes for tobacco substitutes and ways to clear mosquitoes from a room. | | | | Call #: | MS 4417 | | | | Extent: | 0.10 linear feet (1 container) | | | | Subjects: | Schaaf, Lewis, 1846-1889. | Union Pacific Railroad Company. | Central Pacific Railroad Company. | Frontier and pioneer life -- California. | Frontier and pioneer life -- Nevada. | Voyages to the Pacific coast. | California -- Description and travel. | Nevada -- Description and travel. | Sierra Nevada Mountains (Calif. and Nevada)
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| Manuscript Collection | Requires cookie* | | 2 | Title: | Samuel Mathews Papers
| | | | Creator: | Mathews, Samuel | | | | Dates: | 1849-1909 | | | | Abstract: | Samuel Mathews (1816-1891) was the son of Dr. John Henry Mathews (1785-1862) and Martha Huntington Mathews, daughter of the third Governor of Ohio. Samuel was one of the first white children born in Painesville, Ohio. In 1844 he married Hulda O. Ford (d. 1857), daughter of Darius Ford, one of the first settlers of East Cleveland. In 1849 Mathews traveled to California with his partners in the Painesville Mining Company. He returned home in 1852. The collection consists of a constitution and treasurer's account book of the Painesville Mining Association, newspaper articles relating Mathews' California experiences, a diary of the overland journey to California, an annotated transcript of the diary, family correspondence, obituaries, and miscellaneous printed items. | | | | Call #: | MS 4017 | | | | Extent: | 0.20 linear feet (1 container) | | | | Subjects: | Mathews, Samuel, 1816-1891. | Gold mines and mining. | Overland journeys to the Pacific. | Medicine -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Epidemics -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Spiritualism -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Abolitionists -- Ohio. | California -- Description and travel. | Cleveland (Ohio) -- Description and travel.
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