Actual clipping (6-3/4' x 5-3/8') pasted on black paper. ( #286 - Russell Conwell of Worthington) Title: Historical Sketches of Western New England,.4-30-1961. Includes cartoon like drawing as well as brief text. Shows Russell H. Conwell in…
Actual clipping (6-3/4' x 5-3/8') pasted on tan paper. ( #206 - Gen. James C Rice of Worthington) Title: Historical Sketches of Western New England,10-02-1961. 'President Lincoln commissions General J. C. Rice of Worthington'. Includes cartoon like…
Letter from Walter Stevens to Reverend Herbert Owen that includes a 2-page transcription of letter written by Anson Stevens to his Aunt, Mrs. LaFayette Stevens during Civil War. Originated from Bague Sound, N.C. on Feb. 16, no year. Describes Newbern…
Typed paper on the unveiling of the Memorial tablet of General J. C. Rice, 8/7/1923. located in front of Rice Homestead - S/E corner of intersection of Huntington Road and Old Post Road. Brief mention of his entlistment in the New York 44th…
Original typewritten paper called 'The Impact of the Civil War on Worthington as shown by Town Meeting Records 1861-1866'. Ten page paper; verso page 9 has handwritten list of names in the Worthington Regiment (Ward, Brewster, Kenney, Watts,…
Typewritten copy of letter from Henry Daniels, a Worthington native, to his wife regarding the assassination of Lincoln (dated April 15, 1865). Lois Ashe Brown wrote newspaper article accompanying this 2/12/1964. Henry Daniels was born in…
Typed list of Civil War soldiers buried in Center Cemetery. The names are John C Adams, William W Adams, Henry Benton, John J. Bisbee, Johnson Bourroughs (?), James K . Burr, John Kelly, John Wright. Actual list ( 2-1/2' x 8-1/2') is pasted on…
Typewritten excerpt from TRUMBULL'S HISTORY concerning Worthington. Three pages worth, taken from TRUMBULL'S HISTORY OF NORTHAMPTON. Vol. 11, p. 398, 362, 403. Capt (Col) Ebenezer Webber and Col. Nahum Eager (who is called Eagen in Trumbull's…
Paper, 'Worthington during the Revoltionary War' prepared by Donna Sears in a contest sponsored by the Worthington Historical Society. Identify. Her bibliography included Clifton Johnson, 'Historic Hampshire in the Connecticut Valley': James C.…
Letter and its transcription from George and Grace Buck to their son-concerning the son of Moses Buck who fell in action at Fort George, N Y, 1813. Ebenezer Webber. This letter originally came from Orpha Buck Loefer (Loeber?)
2-page excerpt from G. W. Chase's History of Haverhill published in 1861 concerning Israel Bartlett, (a soldier from Haverhilll), who marched in the year 1777 when the British Army surrendered to Gen. Gates. Traveling from Andover and Albany and…
Letter from Pvt Albert E Haskell to Arthur Capen. Written from battlefield in France. Talks about censorship, address not allowed at top or bottom of letter, but okay in body of letter.
Letter from Pvt Albert E Haskell to Arthur Capen. Written from battlefield in France. Request reference from old school teacher as to his 'fairly good educatiion' Written from battlefield in France. Talks about censorship, address not allowed at…