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Thurston, George N. George N. Thurston family papers, 1843-1907.

Title: George N. Thurston family papers, 1843-1907.

Personal and business letters primarily to Thurston from various family members discuss Thurston's activities on various steamboats, transport of ice on the Mississippi River, purchase and advertisement of ice, life of people in the Attakapas region of Louisiana, and family news. Some letters address the purchase and sale of land in Jefferson and East Baton Rouge parishes. A notable correspondent was William Makepeace Thayer, an old friend of Thurston's in Franklin, Massachusetts. The three volumes include a diary (1858-1859, 1864), kept by Mrs. Mary Thurston, containing personal entries and household account information; a memorandum book (1857-1863), probably kept by G. T. Bollinger (unknown relationship to Thurston), listing supplies, addresses, prescriptions, and money owed; and a timebook (1870-1873, 1890) for Baskerville Plantation listing labor information and used in 1890 as a menu and recipe scrapbook. Miscellaneous items consist of a description of land in St. Charles Parish, a biblical quotation and commentary, a school composition, personal and business cards, and a list of stockholders of the New Orleans Ice Company.

ArchivalResource: 64 items.3 v.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122403898 View

Child, William, b. 1834. Thurston, George W.

Title: Thurston, George W.

ArchivalResource: pt. 2, p. 182 ; 24 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122705021 View