Michael Brown Rare Books
Organization
Found in 3 Records:
Diary of an unknown young man
Collection — Folder 1
Call Number: RH MS P938
Overview
Daily accounting of the year 1864 by an unknown young man from the area around Albany County, New York, who traveled west and eventually settled with his parents in Monona, Iowa.
Dates:
January 1, 1864-December 31, 1864
Hunter family letters
Collection
Call Number: RH MS 1361
Overview
This collection contains correspondence from the Hunter family, in excess of 75 letters and 230 pages, ranging from 1844 to 1913. Much of the correspondence is from Almon and George Hunter to their mother Betsy Graham, of Youngsville, Warren County, Pennsylvania. There is also a great deal of correspondence from Mrs. Graham's brother, Shubil D. Chappel. The Hunter brothers and Chappel had emigrated earlier from Pennsylvania to Wisconsin, and later to Kansas Territory. In 1860 Almon went to...
Dates:
1844 - 1913
Thomas H. Davis diaries
Collection
Call Number: RH MS 1363
Overview
This collection contains four diaries written by Thomas H. Davis during the years 1875-1880, mostly in Newburyport, Massachusetts until he moved to Wyandotte County, Kansas in 1879/1880.
Dates:
1875 - 1880