| | Manuscript Collection | Requires cookie* | | 1 | Title: | Congress and Palestine Logbook
| | | | Creator: | Congress and Palestine | | | | Dates: | 1844-1848 | | | | Abstract: | The Congress was a whaling bark out of Mystic, Connecticut, owned by L. and W.P. Randall and commanded by Captain Austin M. Lester. The Palestine was a Great Lakes schooner, sailing out of Huron, Ohio, under the command of Captain Wilcox. The collection consists of a single volume containing the logbooks of the Congress and the Palestine. It includes details of the Congress' whaling voyage to India and the Pacific, 1844-1847, and the Palestine's trip from Huron, Ohio to the upper Great Lakes and then to Buffalo, carrying wheat and flour. Included are details of life on board a whaling ship, travel and adventure in the Pacific Ocean, colored drawings of a sailing ship, inked stamps of various whales, sailing terminology, and entries relating to Great Lakes shipping and life on a lake schooner. Both logs were kept by John B. Wilber. The volume also includes markings made by A. Emertson, a young relative of Captain N. Emertson of Huron, Ohio, who used it as a composition book. | | | | Call #: | MS 4556 | | | | Extent: | 0.10 linear feet (1 container) | | | | Subjects: | Congress (Whaling ship). | Palestine (Schooner). | Whaling. | Whaling ships -- Connecticut -- Mystic. | Logbooks. | Seafaring life. | Shipping -- Great Lakes. | Merchant ships -- Ohio -- Huron. | Merchant mariners -- Great Lakes.
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| Manuscript Collection | Requires cookie* | | 2 | Title: | Harry A. Pempin Family Papers
| | | | Creator: | Pempin, Harry A. Family | | | | Dates: | 1879-1953 | | | | Abstract: | The Harry A. Pempin family of Euclid, Ohio, descends from Henry and Fannie Pempin, Swiss immigrants. By 1880, they had settled in Euclid, where they farmed. Their son, Harry A. Pempin, worked as a steward and lived in Corry, Pennsylvania for a while. The collection consists of a sailors' payroll book, an autograph book, two marriage announcements, a memo to the members of the Cleveland Van Operators and Warehouse Association, one letter written to Pempin's niece, Grace Wilde, and an inventory of the estate of Edith J. Smith of Washington, D.C. The sailors' payroll book was owned by Carl F. Mingenback, a friend of Harry Pempin. | | | | Call #: | MS 4559 | | | | Extent: | 0.10 linear feet (1 container) | | | | Subjects: | Pempin, Harry A., 1853-1918. | Pempin family. | Wilde, Grace. | Smith, Edith J. | Cleveland Van Operators and Warehouse Association. | Merchant mariners -- Great Lakes. | Shipping -- Great Lakes. | Autograph albums.
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