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Beard, James. [Culinary ephemera : beverages - alcoholic]. Box 206.

Title: [Culinary ephemera : beverages - alcoholic]. Box 206. 1940-1980.

ArchivalResource: 12 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/316826515 View

Jenks, William Lee, 1856-1936. William Lee Jenks papers, 1820-1928.

Title: William Lee Jenks papers, 1820-1928.

Collection includes letters, journals, titles to land in Michigan, scrapbooks, miscellanea of Michigan history. Born in St. Clair, Mich., Dec. 27, 1856 son of Bela W. Jenks who came from Crown Point, N.Y. He grade from St. Clair High School in 1873. In 1878 grad. from U. of M. Received honorary degree of M.A. from U. of M. in 1915. In 1879 entered law office of Brown & Farrand in Port Huron and admitted to the Bar. In 1880 formed a partnership with Jeremiah W. Jenks, a cousin. In 1882 formed partnership with B.G. Farrand later with Lincoln Avery and Patrick Phillips. In 1912 wrote a history of St. Clair county. Was president of the Mich. Hist. Comm., Mich, Hist. Soc., St. Clair Pioneer Society, Sons of the Am. Rev., vice pres. Mich. Arts Assoc. In 1895 obtained an amendment to the Port Huron City Charter to set up a public library and obtained a donation from the Carnegie fund for the building. He was an official in a number of banking, trust and loan cots and wrote a history of banking in the state. His wife, Margaret, died in 1924. He left a daughter, Mrs. Elizabeth J. Lassen, Died Dec. 1, 1936. (from B.H.C. Biog. File and Michigan History, v.21, p. 200-202).

ArchivalResource: 37.5 linear ft. : (25 boxes, 1 wallet, 181 v., 4 large manuscripts, 1 microfilm reel)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/637027786 View

MacLaughlin, Henry Connor, 1833-1870. Walter King Hoover collection, 1810-1949, bulk 1861-1865.

Title: Walter King Hoover collection, 1810-1949, bulk 1861-1865.

Documents, primarily from the Civil War, collected by Walter King Hoover. Includes slave bills of sale, 1810-1857, for Tennessee, South Carolina, and Georgia; correspondence by Union and Confederate soldiers; and military records. Prominent among Confederate correspondents is Major Henry Connor MacLaughlin (1833-1870) of Nashville, Tennessee, a member of the Vicksburg Light Artillery Regiment who saw action at the siege of Ft. Pickens and spent months as a prisoner of war at Camp Chase, Ohio. Seven letters of James A. Hall, 1862-1864, Quartermaster, 24th Alabama Infantry, describe activities near Murfreesboro, Tennessee and in the Atlanta campaign. Five letters of Thomas B. Hall of Montgomery, Ala. describe campaigns of Bragg's Army of Tennessee in Mississippi, Tennessee, and Kentucky in 1862. Twelve letters, 1864-1865, of Maj. D.H.C. Spence, District Commissary of Subsistence for West Tennessee, concern supplies for Confederate armies under Forrest and Hood. Correspondence of Union soldiers includes 13 letters (1862-1864) of James Beard, 142nd New York Volunteer Infantry, from camps in Virginia and near Charleston, S.C. Three letters of Amos Fisk, Co. I, 92nd Illinois Volunteer Infantry, describe activities in Middle Tennessee. Ten letters of Charles W. Sayer, 142nd New York Infantry, tell of his stay in army hospitals in Virginia and of regimental activities near Charleston, S.C., 1862-1864. Nine letters of Henry F. Sayer, 44th New York Infantry, also describe activities in Virginia, 1864-1865. Henry Sizeland's three letters in 1864 pertain to his regiment, the 20th New York Cavalry. Three letters of James Whiteford of the 106th New York Infantry give an account of the campaigns near North Mountain and Petersburg, Va., 1863-1864. Other military records includes hospital records for members of Co. A, 7th Rhode Island Infantry, 1863-1865, and quartermaster's records for Co. B, 22nd Virginia Infantry Battalion, CSA, 1864; 30th Virginia Infantry Regiment, CSA, 1862; 4th Rhode Island Infantry Regiment, USA, 1865; and Co. A, 7th Rhode Island Infantry Regiment, USA, 1863-1865.

ArchivalResource: 290 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/27110648 View

Charlottesville-Albemarle CROP Walk Committee (Va.). Records : of the Charlottesville-Albemarle CROP Walk Committee, 1972-1991.

Title: Records : of the Charlottesville-Albemarle CROP Walk Committee, 1972-1991.

The collection contains correspondence, walk routes, financial records, and clippings of this organization dedicated to raising funds for the Church World Service and other agencies for Protestant and orthodox denominations in the United States combatting world hunger. Also included is a short history of the organization by J. Taylor Beard (8 p.).

ArchivalResource: 5000 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/29536546 View

Fisher, M. F. K. (Mary Frances Kennedy), 1908-1992. Typed letter signed with initials : Last House [Glen Ellen, California], to David Pleydell-Bouverie, 1975 Dec. 15.

Title: Typed letter signed with initials : Last House [Glen Ellen, California], to David Pleydell-Bouverie, 1975 Dec. 15.

Thanking him for "the A & N Wine List"; discussing a visit from Jim Beard; describing her plans for the holidays; reporting that "news is good from both [her] girls"; mentioning Arnold Gingrich.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (1 p.) ; 35.3 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/587464731 View