Incidents and accidents : manuscript, 1852-1897 / by W. Albaugh.

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Incidents and accidents : manuscript, 1852-1897 / by W. Albaugh.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122589769

Diary or journal with descriptions of family and friends; teaching school, farming, and starting a shoe-making business; social life, including visiting, house raisings, corn huskings, sleighing, apple butter boilings, cider pressings, quiltings, threshings, weddings, vendues [household and property sales]. Mentions numerous Baptist, Methodist, and Friends meetings; attendance at prayer meetings, bush meetings, camp meetings, Sabbath schools, and singing schools. Includes detailed descriptions of the weather, the aurora borealis, snowfalls, and storms; marriages, deaths, births, illnesses, injuries, a suicide and a hanging. Also describes hunting, hunting accidents, lawsuits, elections, a circus in Schellsburg, and road building. He describes pedlars, and peddles books himself, and includes a list of the books in his library. There is some original poetry, and poetry copied from various sources. Diary includes financial accounts and records of property sales.

1 v. : paper ; 40 cm.

University of Pennsylvania Libraries, Van Pelt Library

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University of Pennsylvania Libraries, Van Pelt Library

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William Albaugh was born on November 23, 1822. He was a schoolteacher, shoemaker, farmer, clerk, and tax collector living near Bedford and Schellsburg, Bedford County, Pa. He married Luanna Repp June 12, 1856; the births of four of their children are noted in his diary. From the description of Incidents and accidents : manuscript, 1852-1897 / by W. Albaugh. (University of Pennsylvania Library). WorldCat record id: 122589769 ...

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