Local history collection, 1830-1984.

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Local history collection, 1830-1984.

Files consisting of clippings, reports, brochures, promotional materials, memorial sketches, genealogies, articles, typescripts, sermons, catalogs, directories, maps, and photographs arranged by subjects including biography, churches, clubs and organizations, fires, floods, government, history, industry, schools, and transportation. Of note are a scrapbook kept by Matilda Joslyn Gage on the Civil War, women's war activities, and women's rights speeches and activities, especially of Anna E. Dickinson, 1863-1887; John McViccar's copybook containing his letters as secretary of Fayetteville Hydraulic Company concerning the planning and construction of Ledyard Dike, 1845-1846; John McViccar's ledger concerning bonds and mortgages, 1830-1854; map of Fayetteville, 1849; and map of New York State, 1905.

12 cubic ft.

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Fayetteville Free Library (Fayetteville, N.Y.)

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Collecting area: Local history. From the description of Repository description. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 155449896 Matilda Joslyn Gage was a resident of Fayetteville. Ledyard Dike was a hydraulic canal built to provide water power to village industries. From the description of Local history collection, 1830-1984. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 155456981 ...

Dickinson, Anna E. (Anna Elizabeth), 1842-1932

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Anna Elizabeth Dickinson (October 28, 1842 – October 22, 1932) was an American orator and lecturer. An advocate for the abolition of slavery and for women's rights, Dickinson was the first woman to give a political address before the United States Congress. A gifted speaker at a very young age, she aided the Republican Party in the hard-fought 1863 elections and significantly influenced the distribution of political power in the Union just prior to the Civil War. Dickinson was the first white wo...

Gage, Matilda Joslyn, 1826-1898

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Matilda Joslyn Gage (b. Mar. 24, 1826, Cicero, NY–d. Mar. 18, 1898, Chicago, IL) was a prominent suffragist. Her father, Hezekiah Joslyn, was an abolitionist and his home was a station of the Underground Railroad. In 1845 she married Henry H. Gage, and had five children; her son-in-law was writer L. Frank Baum. Gage became involved in the women's rights movement in 1852 when she decided to speak at the National Women's Rights Convention in Syracuse, NY. She served as president of the National ...

McViccar, John.

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Fayetteville Hydraulic Company (Fayetteville, N.Y.)

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