Burr family materials

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Title

Burr family materials

Subject

Burr family documents and photographs

Description

Photographs, letters, account books etc. associated with the Burr family. Many items part of a large donation from Andrus (Andy) Burr in 2007

Collection Items

Letter from Fordyce Benjamin to Franklin Burr, April 1850, about life in Napa California
3-page letter address to Frankin Burr from Fordyce J. Benjamin (1826-1896) describing life in Napa, California, three years after his arrival in 1847. He was 24 years old at the time and had come to Calafornia [sic] in 1847 as part of an American…

Poster about the Burr family, 2018
Laminated poster prepared for display at the Worthington 250th anniversary.

Article on Clement Burr's 90th birthday, 1939
Village Times (precursor of the Country Journal) article about Clement Burr (1849-1939) at his 90th birthday, oldest resident of Worthington at the time. Also mentioned are his mother, Persis Knapp Burr (1816-1889), father, Franklin (1808-1869) and…
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