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Two anewspaper articles, January 1928. 'Church Has Annual Meeting'. Names include: Mrs. James H. Burckes, Mrs. Eugene Stevens, Miss Bessie A. F. Ames, Rev. James H. Burckes, Mrs. Ernest Thayer, Miss Susan Rice, deacon Clyde Jones, Mrs. Franklin Burr,…

March 22, 1928: death notice and obituary for Cynthia L. Tower. Also mentioned: Walter S. ALlen, Henrietta Harrington Allen, James Corbett, Henry L. Tower, Herbert L. Tower, Cullen B. Tower, Mrs. Ralph Curley

Articles from January and August 1928, Annual business meeting and planning for annual fair in August. Also details about annual budget and expenses. Names mentioned include: Mrs. T. C. Martin, Susan T. Rice, Ina Smith, Helen G. Burr, Anna A.…

Article from April 1928 highlights cars getting stuck in unfinished road that went between what are now Rte. 112 and Rte, 143. (area around the Corners Store). Other local tidbits. Names mentioned: Mildred and Eleanor Parsons, Mrs. Leland P. Cole,…

Dec. 3, 1928 article from Springfield or Northampton paper (not cited): Special town meeting to appropriate $625 for a repairing or buying new tractor/snow plow.

People mentioned include Henry L. Tower, Dorothy Tower, Mrs. James H. Burckes, Burr…

Three articles detailing organizational meetings of Town entities held in January 1929: the Congregational Church, the Women's Benevolent Society, and the Royal Arcanum (part of the Grange). Articles include budgets and data fro treasurers'…

Harry S. Witt (1857-1929), death notice. Also mentioned in article are Elizabeth Damon Witt, Edna Witt, Mrs. Wendell Fisk. Mrs. Emma E. Sanderson, and Mrs. George Geer.

Newspaper articles from an Albany paper describing the funeral and burial of Harriet Langdon Pruyn Rice at an Albany cemetery, as well as the many tributes she received from American and foreign dignitaries. No mention of Worthington, where Harriet…

Administrator's Sale' estate of Charles T. Smith 8/12/1876. 'Will be sold at Public Auctiion, at the late residence of Charles T. Smith, in South Worthington, deceased. On Saturday, August 12th, 1876, At One o'clock, P.M., 1 Yoke of Oxen, 1 Cow, 1…

School - Letter, George Mowry from Everett ? Letter in envelope to Mr. George Mowry, Ringville MA from Everett (could this also be Edward Everett Hale see 2006a-218) in Westfield MA. Everett was just 12 and lists what he got for his birthday,…

Digital copy of a bill of sale, dated July 28, 1885, listing patent medicines purchased from the Excelsior Botanical Co., manufacturers of The Botanical Preparations and Wild Rose Cologne. The Brewster's General Store was located at the NE corner of…

Talley for Governor and Lieutenant Governor of State of Massachusetts for Town of Worthington.
For Governor: The Honorable Caleb Strong, Esq. 162 votes;
His Excellency Elbridge Gerry, Esq 21 votes.
For Lieutenant Governor: William Phillips, Esq…

Record of Worthington'sm1812 vote for Governor and Lieutenant Governor in Worthington. Vote was held at a Selectman's meeting on 4/6/1812. Caleb Strong received 160 votes; Elbridge Gerry receives 71 votes. For Lieutenant Gov. William Phillips…

1800 federal census for Worthington Massachusetts. 6 pages. Compiled by Ezra Starkweather. Total population 1223, total # houses 122.

Musical notation notebook with hymns notated by Fanny Crowel of West Brookfield (1790-1863)

Loose leaf binder containing letters and mementos given to Mr. Arthur Capen for 50 years of service to the Town of Worthington. Includes correspondence from area churches, newspaper clippings accumulated through the life of Arthur Capen.

Article by Florence Berry Bates on Nursing in Worthington.
She founded the Worthington Health Center in 1950. (See also Box 40)
The article was condensed by Elizabeth Payne; it is typed and six pages long

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…

Bound diary of Clement Burr transcribes when Burr was 79 by his great-grandson Franklin Andrus Burr with photographs and annotations

Black and white glass slide: 'Pierce Tavern and the Lafayette Elm' (#32). The Pierce (also Peerce) Tavern(also Lafayette Hotel) was on the site now occupied by the Worthington Library. Purportedly Lafayette stayed overnight at the inn during his…