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Subject | • | Ohio -- Description and travel. |
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| | • | United States -- Description and travel -- 1783-1848. |
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| | • | Western Reserve (Ohio) -- Description and travel. |
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| | • | Ohio -- Biography. |
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| | • | Pennsylvania -- Description and travel. |
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| | • | Sermons, American. |
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| | • | Travelers -- United States -- Diaries. |
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| | • | Western Reserve (Ohio) -- History -- Sources. |
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| | • | Ashtabula (Ohio) -- History -- Sources. |
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| | • | Asylums -- Ohio. |
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| | • | Badger, Joseph, 1757-1846. |
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| | • | Baldwin, Anner Mary Hudson, 1800-1892. |
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| | • | Boalt family. |
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| | • | Brown family. |
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| | • | Brown, Bartholomew, 1772-1854. |
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| | • | Burton (Ohio) -- Description and travel. |
(1)
| | • | Canfield (Ohio) -- History -- Sources. |
(1)
| | • | Chillicothe (Ohio) -- Description and travel. |
(1)
| | • | Clergy -- Ohio -- Western Reserve. |
(1)
| | • | Clergy -- Ohio. |
(1)
| | • | Cleveland (Ohio) -- Description and travel. |
(1)
| | • | Cleveland (Ohio) -- History. |
(1)
| | • | Connecticut -- Description and travel. |
(1)
| | • | Converse, Amelia. |
(1)
| | • | Cookery, American. |
(1)
| | • | Cowan, Christopher, 1780-1835. |
(1)
| | • | Cutler, Jervis, 1768-1844. |
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| | • | Emerson family. |
(1)
| | • | Family -- Ohio. |
(1)
| | • | Farm life -- Ohio -- Hudson. |
(1)
| | • | Farmers -- Ohio -- Hudson -- Diaries. |
(1)
| | • | Free family. |
(1)
| | • | Free, Ethelinda Griswold Rice, 1900-1985. |
(1)
| | • | Frontier and pioneer life -- Ohio. |
(1)
| | • | Frontier and pioneer life -- West (U.S.) |
(1)
| | • | Frontier and pioneer life -- Western Reserve (Ohio) |
(1)
| | • | Gale family. |
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| | • | Griswold family. |
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| | • | Heckewelder, John Gottlieb Ernestus, 1743-1823. |
(1)
| | • | Henderson, James Patterson. |
(1)
| | • | Hudson (Ohio) -- Genealogy. |
(1)
| | • | Hudson (Ohio) -- History -- Sources. |
(1)
| | • | Hudson family. |
(1)
| | • | Hudson, David, 1761-1836. |
(1)
| | • | Hulburt family. |
(1)
| | • | Indians of North America -- Louisiana. |
(1)
| | • | Indians of North America -- Ohio. |
(1)
| | • | Izant, Grace Goulder, d. 1984. |
(1)
| | • | Kirkpatrick, Abraham, 1749-1817 -- Estate. |
(1)
| | • | Law, Jonathan. |
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| | Manuscript Collection | Requires cookie* | | 1 | Title: | Amelia Converse Papers
| | | | Creator: | Converse, Amelia | | | | Dates: | 1839-1890 | | | | Abstract: | Amelia Converse was a resident of Parkman, Ohio, and daughter of John Phelps Converse. The collection consists of personal letters to Miss Converse from friends and relatives, and diaries (1839-1869), containing descriptions of travels in Ohio and conditions in asylums there. Correspondents include Martha Converse, Mary M. Farwell, and Francis Parkman. | | | | Call #: | MS 1247 | | | | Extent: | 0.20 linear feet (1 container) | | | | Subjects: | Converse, Amelia. | Asylums -- Ohio. | Psychiatric hospitals -- Ohio. | Ohio -- Description and travel.
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| Manuscript Collection | Requires cookie* | | 2 | Title: | Christopher Cowan Papers
| | | | Creator: | Cowan, Christopher | | | | Dates: | 1784-1826 | | | | Abstract: | Christopher Cowan (1780-1835) was a Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, industrialist who built the city's first rolling mill. He was the son-in-law of Major Abraham Kirkpatrick, Revolutionary War soldier and one of Pittsburgh's early pioneers. The collection consists of correspondence, agreements, powers of attorney, and other papers, concerning the estate of Abraham Kirkpatrick and the disposal of land in Ohio's Virginia Military District. Includes an unsigned letter to Col. John Neville, Woodville, Fort Pitt, Pennsylvania 1784, containing entries made while the writer traveled through the area of southern Ohio, with a sketch showing rivers, names of settlements, and Indian camps. | | | | Call #: | MS 1328 | | | | Extent: | 0.20 linear feet (1 container) | | | | Subjects: | Cowan, Christopher, 1780-1835. | Kirkpatrick, Abraham, 1749-1817 -- Estate. | Real property -- Ohio. | Ohio -- Description and travel.
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| Manuscript Collection | Requires cookie* | | 3 | Title: | Bartholomew Brown Notebook
| | | | Creator: | Brown, Bartholomew | | | | Dates: | 1820-1854 | | | | Abstract: | Bartholomew Brown's (1772-1854) family records consist of an account of Brown's visit to his daughter, Harriett, and his travels through the Western Reserve, including visits to Cleveland, Chagrin Falls, Warren, and Ravenna, Ohio, undated; and copies of sermons delivered by Rev. James Flint in East Bridgewater, Massachusetts, 1820-1821. | | | | Call #: | MS 1576 | | | | Extent: | 0.10 linear feet (1 container) | | | | Subjects: | Brown, Bartholomew, 1772-1854. | Brown family. | Sermons, American. | Western Reserve (Ohio) -- Description and travel. | Ohio -- Description and travel.
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| Manuscript Collection | Requires cookie* | | 6 | Title: | Asa Emerson Family Papers
| | | | Creator: | Emerson, Asa Family | | | | Dates: | 1831-1955 | | | | Abstract: | In 1821 Asa Emerson and his family settled in the area that is now Parma Heights, a suburb of Cleveland, Ohio. Family members have included a post master, a President of Cleveland City Council, and many teachers, ministers, and businessmen. The collection consists of correspondence (1831-1939), genealogies and histories of the Emerson and Gale families, clippings on early Cleveland history, a travel diary of Leslie Emerson, and miscellaneous documents. | | | | Call #: | MS 3767 | | | | Extent: | 0.20 linear feet (1 container) | | | | Subjects: | Emerson family. | Gale family. | Parma Heights (Ohio) -- History. | Michigan -- Description and travel. | Ohio -- Description and travel. | Cleveland (Ohio) -- History.
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| Manuscript Collection | Requires cookie* | | 7 | Title: | Travel Journal
| | | | Creator: | Anonymous | | | | Dates: | 1829 | | | | Abstract: | The collection consists of a travel journal detailing a trip made by an anonymous young man from Boston, Massachusetts, to Zanesville, Ohio, September 1-29, 1829. The traveler stopped for commencement at Brown University, then proceeded through New York state, visiting prisons at Sing Sing and Auburn, staying with Cyrus Howard, a farmer in Morrisville, New York, and visiting Niagra Falls. He continued on to visit Cleveland, Canton, Zoar and Zanesville, Ohio, providing a detailed description of the communal settlement at Zoar. | | | | Call #: | MS 3918 | | | | Extent: | 0.20 linear feet (1 container) | | | | Subjects: | Society of Separatists of Zoar. | Prisons -- New York (State) | New York (State) -- Description and travel. | Ohio -- Description and travel.
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| Manuscript Collection | Requires cookie* | | 8 | Title: | Grace Goulder Izant Papers
| | | | Creator: | Izant, Grace Goulder | | | | Dates: | 1938-1973 | | | | Abstract: | Grace Goulder Izant (d. 1984) was a Cleveland, Ohio, journalist, writer and local historian. Izant's series, "Ohio scenes and citizens", appeared weekly in the Sunday Plain Dealer, 1944-1969, and led to her book of the same title. She also wrote "This is Ohio", a collection of anecdotes for each of Ohio's counties, "John D. Rockefeller: the Cleveland years", and "Hudson's heritage", a history of Hudson, Ohio. The collection consists of research files used in her writings, including correspondence, pamphlets, and clippings relating to places, people and events in Ohio. | | | | Call #: | MS 4283 | | | | Extent: | 2.00 linear feet (2 containers) | | | | Subjects: | Izant, Grace Goulder, d. 1984. | Women historians -- Ohio. | Women journalists -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Ohio -- History, Local. | Ohio -- Biography. | Ohio -- Description and travel.
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| Manuscript Collection | Requires cookie* | | 9 | 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 | Requires cookie* | | 11 | Title: | John Gottlieb Ernestus Heckewelder Diaries
| | | | Creator: | Heckewelder, John gottlieb Ernestus | | | | Dates: | 1786-1789 | | | | Abstract: | John Gottlieb Ernestus Heckewelder (1743-1823) was a Moravian missionary who worked to Christianize Indians in Pennsylvania and Ohio. Heckewelder, David Zeisberger, and Christian Delaware Indians migrated from Pennsylvania to the Ohio territory and laid out Schoenbrunn ("Beautiful Spring") in 1772 along the Tuscarawas River. They also founded Gnadenhutten ("Tents of Grace") further downstream, where nearly 100 Christian Indians were murdered by whites in 1782. The collection consists of a diary kept while journeying with Sarah and Anna Heckewelder from the "Cayahoga river" to Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, October 5-Nov.ember 15, 1786; diary kept while journeying with Abraham Steiner from Bethlehem to Pettiquotting near the Huron River and Lake Erie, and back to Bethlehem, April 17-June 20, 1789; and a church history of the Moravians, undated. | | | | Call #: | MS 0813 | | | | Extent: | 0.20 linear feet (1 container) | | | | Subjects: | Heckewelder, John Gottlieb Ernestus, 1743-1823. | Moravians -- Ohio. | Missionaries -- United States -- Diaries. | Travelers -- United States -- Diaries. | Moravian Church -- United States -- History. | Ohio -- Description and travel. | Pennsylvania -- Description and travel. | United States -- Description and travel -- 1783-1848.
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| Manuscript Collection | Requires cookie* | | 14 | Title: | Jonathan Law Diary
| | | | Creator: | Law, Jonathan | | | | Dates: | 1802 | | | | Abstract: | Jonathan Law was a resident of Cheshire, Connecticut, and the son of William Law, an early owner of land in the Western Reserve. The collection consists of a diary kept on a trip through the Western Reserve, including visits to Burton, Cleveland, Chillicothe, Painesville, Poland, and Warren, Ohio, and other cities between the Reserve and his home in Cheshire, Connecticut. | | | | Call #: | MS 0597 | | | | Extent: | 0.20 linear feet (1 container) | | | | Subjects: | Law, Jonathan. | Travelers -- United States -- Diaries. | Burton (Ohio) -- Description and travel. | Chillicothe (Ohio) -- Description and travel. | Cleveland (Ohio) -- Description and travel. | Painesville (Ohio) -- Description and travel. | Poland (Ohio) -- Description and travel. | Warren (Ohio) -- Description and travel. | Ohio -- Description and travel. | Western Reserve (Ohio) -- Description and travel. | United States -- Description and travel -- 1783-1848.
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| Manuscript Collection | Requires cookie* | | 15 | Title: | Hudson Family Papers
| | | | Creator: | Hudson Family | | | | Dates: | 1799-1836 | | | | Abstract: | David Hudson, Sr. (1761-1836) was the founder of Hudson, Ohio and a member of the party which came from Litchfield, Connecticut to survey and organize Hudson in 1799. He returned in 1800 with a colonizing party which included his family. David Jr. and Anner Mary were two of his children. The collection consists of David Hudson, Sr.'s journal and account book (1799-1801), which describes the surveying party's trip from Connecticut to Hudson, Ohio and Hudson's return trip; ten of David Hudson, Jr.'s journals (1820-1836) describing farm life in early Hudson, Ohio; and Anner Mary Hudson Baldwin's recipe book (1830). | | | | Call #: | MS 3893 | | | | Extent: | 0.40 linear feet (1 container) | | | | Subjects: | Hudson family. | Hudson, David, 1761-1836. | Baldwin, Anner Mary Hudson, 1800-1892. | Farm life -- Ohio -- Hudson. | Frontier and pioneer life -- Ohio. | Pioneers -- Ohio -- Hudson -- Diaries. | Farmers -- Ohio -- Hudson -- Diaries. | Cookery, American. | Hudson (Ohio) -- History -- Sources. | Hudson (Ohio) -- Genealogy. | Western Reserve (Ohio) -- History -- Sources. | Ohio -- Description and travel. | United States -- Description and travel -- 1783-1848.
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| Manuscript Collection | Requires cookie* | | 16 | Title: | Ethelinda Griswold Rice Free Family Papers
| | | | Creator: | Free, Ethelinda Griswold Rice Family | | | | Dates: | 1712-1983 | | | | Abstract: | Ethelinda Griswold Rice Free, daughter of Joseph and Juliet Boalt Rice of Ohio, spent most of her life gathering materials related to her family's history. She was descended from prominent families in the Western Reserve and New England. The collection consists of correspondence between members of the Free, Rice, Hulburt, Boalt and Griswold families, diaries, journals, financial and legal materials, genealogical materials, memorabilia, published and unpublished writings, newspaper clippings and materials from relatives in the Butler, Caldwell, Fisk, Hall, Hubbard, Lane, Moss and Warner families. | | | | Call #: | MS 4028 | | | | Extent: | 15.91 linear feet (40 containers and 1 oversize folder) | | | | Subjects: | Free family. | Rice family. | Griswold family. | Boalt family. | Hulburt family. | Free, Ethelinda Griswold Rice, 1900-1985. | Students -- United States -- Correspondence, reminiscenses, etc. | Family -- Ohio. | Frontier and pioneer life -- West (U.S.) | Frontier and pioneer life -- Western Reserve (Ohio) | Women -- Western Reserve (Ohio) | Ashtabula (Ohio) -- History -- Sources. | Western Reserve (Ohio) -- History -- Sources. | West (U.S.) -- Description and travel -- 1860-1880. | Sandusky (Ohio) -- History -- Sources. | Ohio -- Description and travel.
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