| Repository: | Western Reserve Historical Society |
| Creator: | Harmon Family |
| Title: | Harmon Family Papers |
| Dates: | 1766-1885 |
| Extent: | 5.40 linear feet (14 containers) |
| Abstract: | The Harmon family moved to Mantua, Portage County, Ohio from Suffield Connecticut, in 1799. Elias Harmon held several public offices and was land agent for many Connecticut residents. His son, Orrin, was active in the land business and was surveyor for Portage County and the Pennsylvania and Ohio Canal. Julian Harmon was the son of Orrin. The collection contains the papers of Elias, Orrin, Julian and Martin Harmon. Includes correspondence, diaries, financial accounts and receipts, land deeds and memoranda of sales, legal documents, estate papers, powers of attorney, tax records, notebooks, surveys, and other papers, documenting their note collection and land agency business. Also, includes material on the Protection Life Insurance Co. of Hartford, the Franklin and Warren Railroad, the Pennsylvania and Ohio Canal, the Independent Knights of Temperance, and the fur trade and anti-slavery movement, with references to state and national politics, banking policies, and anti-masonic movements. |
| MS Number | MS 0104 |
| Location: | closed stacks |
| Language: | The records are in English |
The Harmon Family Papers, 1766-1885 (1795-1860) consist of the papers of Elias, Orrin, Julian and Martin Harmon. Includes correspondence, diaries, financial accounts and receipts, land deeds and memoranda of sales, legal documents, estate papers, powers of attorney, tax records, notebooks, surveys, and other papers, documenting their note collection and land agency business. Also, includes material on the Protection Life Insurance Co. of Hartford, the Franklin and Warren Railroad, the Pennsylvania and Ohio Canal, the Independent Knights of Temperance, and the fur trade and anti-slavery movement, with references to state and national politics, banking policies, and anti-masonic movements.
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The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the library's online public access catalog.
[Container ___, Folder ___ ] MS 104 Harmon Family Papers, Western Reserve Historical Society, Cleveland, Ohio
Gift of Orrin Harmon in 1909.
Processed by Judith A. Reynolds in 1963
Series I: Family Papers 1766-1877 undated |
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| Box | Folder | ||||||||||
| 1 | 1 | Elias Harmon, civil offices 1802-1835 | |||||||||
| 1 | 2 | Elias Harmon, unidentified financial papers 1766-1847 | |||||||||
| 1 | 3 | Elias Harmon, personal financial papers 1796-1850 | |||||||||
| 1 | 4 | Elias Harmon, neighborhood accounts 1823-1833 | |||||||||
| 1 | 5 | Elias Harmon, agreements and insurance policies 1796-1849 | |||||||||
| 1 | 6 | Elias Harmon, miscellaneous papers 1798-1820 | |||||||||
| 1 | 7 | Orrin Harmon, non-business correspondence 1828-1877 | |||||||||
| 1 | 8 | Orrin Harmon, school papers 1828-1831 | |||||||||
| 1 | 9 | Orrin Harmon, surveyor papers 1828-1835 | |||||||||
| 1 | 10 | Orrin Harmon, miscellaneous papers (includes constitution of the Anti-Slavery Association of the State of Ohio within and for the township of Ravenna) 1852-1866 | |||||||||
| 1 | 11 | Orrin Harmon, historical notebook undated | |||||||||
| 1 | 12 | Orrin Harmon, diary of a trip 1850 | |||||||||
| Box | Folder | ||||||||||
| 2 | 1 | Orrin Harmon, land contracts 1834-1858 | |||||||||
| 2 | 2 | Orrin and Julian Harmon, non-land financial papers 1827-1872 | |||||||||
| 2 | 3 | Orrin Harmon, bank book and papers 1844-1869 | |||||||||
| 2 | 4 | Orrin and Julian Harmon, real estate receipts 1831-1872 | |||||||||
| 2 | 5 | Orrin Harmon, delinquent tax sale certificates 1827-1848 | |||||||||
| 2 | 6 | Orrin Harmon, unidentified receipts 1831-1855 | |||||||||
| 2 | 7 | Martin S. Harmon, estate papers 1847-1851 | |||||||||
| 2 | 8 | Henry C. Sheldon, estate papers 1864 | |||||||||
| 2 | 9 | John King, estate papers 1840-1859 | |||||||||
| 2 | 10 | Calvin White, estate papers 1848-1853 | |||||||||
| 2 | 11 | Simon Sheldon, estate papers 1843-1845 | |||||||||
| 2 | 12 | Charles Phelps 1847-1850 | |||||||||
| 2 | 13 | Orrin Harmon, agent of Protection Insurance Company 1846-1848 | |||||||||
| 2 | 14 | Orrin Harmon, investment papers 1853-1865 | |||||||||
| 2 | 15 | Orrin Harmon, financial backer of P. A. Fink, peddler 1849 | |||||||||
| 2 | 16 | Orrin Harmon, fur trader papers 1829-1839 | |||||||||
| Box | Folder | ||||||||||
| 3 | 1-2 | Orrin Harmon, fur trader papers 1840-1853 | |||||||||
Series II: Specific Land Agencies 1796-1881 |
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| Box | Folder | ||||||||||
| 3 | 3-4 | Bath Street suit 1850-1867 | |||||||||
| Box | Folder | ||||||||||
| 4 | 1 | John Bolles and heirs 1807-1860 | |||||||||
| 4 | 2 | Purches Capen 1846-1847 | |||||||||
| 4 | 3 | Cyrus A. Davis 1831-1855 | |||||||||
| 4 | 4 | Parks Foster 1854-1869 | |||||||||
| 4 | 5 | William and Ebenezer Gay and heirs 1828-1831 | |||||||||
| 4 | 6 | Charles Granger and Gideon and Francis Granger 1827-1861 | |||||||||
| 4 | 7 | Erastus Granger and heirs 1823-1860 | |||||||||
| 4 | 8 | Heirs of John Granger 1833-1861 | |||||||||
| 4 | 9 | S. C. Griswold and Oliver Sheldon heirs 1796-1863 | |||||||||
| Box | Folder | ||||||||||
| 5 | 1 | John Harmon and John H. Harmon 1838-1855 | |||||||||
| 5 | 2 | Josiah Harris 1821-1834 | |||||||||
| 5 | 3 | Hezekiah Huntington 1807-1855 | |||||||||
| 5 | 4-5 | Benajah Kent and heirs 1799-1861 | |||||||||
| 5 | 6 | Ashbel King 1822-1862 | |||||||||
| 5 | 7 | David, Evenezer, and Fidelio King 1805-1850 | |||||||||
| 5 | 8 | Charles Kirtland and heirs 1842-1855 | |||||||||
| Box | Folder | ||||||||||
| 6 | 1 | Luther Loomis and Thaddeus Leavitt heirs 1801-1853 | |||||||||
| 6 | 2 | Roger Moore 1812-1831 | |||||||||
| 6 | 3 | Cephas Norton and Mary Norton 1832-1844 | |||||||||
| 6 | 4-5 | Ebenezer and Martin Sheldon 1798-1825 | |||||||||
| Box | Folder | ||||||||||
| 7 | 1-5 | Martin Sheldon 1826-1856 | |||||||||
| Box | Folder | ||||||||||
| 8 | 1 | Martin Sheldon 1812-1835 | |||||||||
| 8 | 2 | Julius and Martin I. Sheldon 1823-1869 | |||||||||
| 8 | 3 | Hezekiah S. Sheldon 1850-1866 | |||||||||
| 8 | 4 | Henry C. Sheldon 1847-1851 | |||||||||
| 8 | 5 | Heirs of Obed Smith 1833-1860 | |||||||||
| 8 | 6 | Elias Harmon, maps of sundry township lands belonging to Martin Sheldon 1816-1834 | |||||||||
| 8 | 7 | Sheldon family, abstracts of deeds 1800-1865 | |||||||||
| Box | Folder | ||||||||||
| 9 | 1 | Alfred Spencer and heirs, Arabella Granger 1826-1881 | |||||||||
| 9 | 2 | Heirs of David Tuttle 1836-1871 | |||||||||
Series III: Intertwined Agencies 1828-1885 undated |
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| Box | Folder | ||||||||||
| 9 | 3 | General papers 1833-1855 | |||||||||
| 9 | 4 | Account book 1828-1846 | |||||||||
| 9 | 5 | Account book 1833-1838 | |||||||||
| Box | Folder | ||||||||||
| 10 | 1 | Account book 1837-1856 | |||||||||
| 10 | 2 | Account book 1845-1885 | |||||||||
| 10 | 3 | Index to account books undated | |||||||||
| Box | Folder | ||||||||||
| 11 | 1 | Cash and memoranda book 1860-1860 | |||||||||
| 11 | 2 | Notebooks 1840-1863 | |||||||||
| 11 | 3 | Land title notebooks 1835-1865 | |||||||||
Series IV: General Land Papers 1795-1872 undated |
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| Box | Folder | ||||||||||
| 11 | 4 | General papers 1795-1871 | |||||||||
| 11 | 5 | General papers undated | |||||||||
| 11 | 6 | Surveys 1817-ca. 1860 | |||||||||
| 11 | 7 | Forms ca. 1850-1865 | |||||||||
| Box | Folder | ||||||||||
| 12 | 1-4 | Correspondence 1817-1854 undated | |||||||||
| Box | Folder | ||||||||||
| 13 | 1-2 | Correspondence 1855-1872 | |||||||||
Series V: Miscellaneous Papers 1826-1847 |
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| Box | Folder | ||||||||||
| 13 | 3 | Papers of Martin S. Harmon 1838-1847 | |||||||||
| 13 | 4 | Unidentified school papers 1826-1839 | |||||||||
Series VI: Lorain County, Ohio, Papers 1800-1853 |
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| Box | Folder | ||||||||||
| 14 | 1-3 | Lorain County, Ohio Papers 1800-1853 | |||||||||