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Wilkeson family. Papers, 1821-1955.

Title: Papers, 1821-1955.

Letters, diaries, genealogical materials, military records, business and financial records, and other papers of various Wilkeson family members, including Judge Samuel Wilkeson; his sons John, Samuel, Jr., and Eli; his grandsons Samuel H. and John Wilkes Wilkeson; his granddaughter Maria Louisa; and his great-granddaughter Elizabeth Wilkeson Hamlin. Business and financial records include records for lands owned in Western New York, Illinois, Michigan and elsewhere, 1825-1870; records of Arcole Iron Co. and Wilkeson & Co., 1830-1859; and estate papers. Military records include correspondence, manuals, ordnance receipts, and discharge of Lt. Col. Samuel H. Wilkeson, 1862-1865, of the 11th New York Cavalry ("Scott's 900"). Papers of Elizabeth Wilkeson Hamlin concern war work, 1940-1945, research on the Oram, McCarty and Wilkeson families, Christmas card lists, social events, and travel in South America.

ArchivalResource: (7.5 linear ft.)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/34503195 View

Ferris, Zebulon, 1815-1884. Papers, 1823-1884.

Title: Papers, 1823-1884.

Includes Civil War correspondence of Warren T. Ferris; powers of attorney and assignment of mortgage involving Samuel Wilkeson, Ebenezer Johnson, Josiah Barker and the Life and Fire Insurance Company, 1823-1826; mortgages relating to property in East Hamburg and the town of Ellicott, 1848-1864; articles of association of the East Hamburgh Turnpike Road Company, 1848; certificate naming Zebulon Ferris a member of N.Y.S. Assembly, 1860; bounty certificates of Civil War volunteers, mostly from East Hamburg, 1862; invoices and returns of ordnance and ordnance stores, 116th Regiment, N.Y.S.V., 1863-1865; muster-out roll and orders to Warren T. Ferris regarding Company D of the 74th Regiment, N.G.S.N.Y., 1863-1869; and receipts from Buffalo companies for products and services, 1843-1880.

ArchivalResource: (0.5 linear ft.)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/33937811 View

Wilkeson, Samuel, 1817-1889. Civil War collection, 1840-1929 (bulk 1861-1865).

Title: Civil War collection, 1840-1929 (bulk 1861-1865).

Muster rolls, histories, diaries and other official and personal papers concerning various New York regiments and naval operations, including the 3rd, 20th, 21st, 49th, 94th, 100th, 116th and 179th Infantry; 11th and 12th Cavalry; 1st Light Artillery (Wiedrich's Battery), 12th Light Artillery, 27th Light Artillery (Eaton's Battery), and 16th Heavy Artillery, as well as some non-New York military units. Also included are passes used by Samuel Wilkeson for reporting for the New York Tribune, 1861; personal letters, 1840-1882; Confederate muster rolls and other records; documentation of war dead, particularly from Orleans County, N.Y.; muster and descriptive rolls of Erie County; W.T. Anderson collection of Civil War autographs, communications and maps; reminiscences by Madison Buell and W.W. Potter, M.D.; and other materials, including autographs, emblems, soldiers' ballots and excerpts from diaries and letters of Elizabeth Knowles.

ArchivalResource: (2.5 linear ft.)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/34555638 View

Wilkeson family. Papers, 1772-1954 (bulk 1814-1952).

Title: Papers, 1772-1954 (bulk 1814-1952).

Letters and papers of Judge Samuel Wilkeson concerning family matters, personal business, the Erie Canal, Buffalo harbor, politics and the American Colonization Society, 1814-1848; and letters and financial, legal and personal papers of his sons John, Samuel, Jr., and William, grandsons John W. and Samuel H., granddaughter Louise, and great- granddaughters Elizabeth Wilkeson Hamlin and Margaret W. Burnett, as well as papers of William and Frederick Wilkes. Includes papers of John Wilkeson as consul to Turk's Island, 1842-1844; land records of Samuel Wilkeson, Jr. in Galena, Ill., 1835; Union College papers of John W. Wilkeson, 1835-1880; Civil War military papers and letters; biographical and genealogical notes; and typed trnascripts of many original papers in the collection.

ArchivalResource: 6.0 linear ft.)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/34503192 View