Skaneateles subject file, 1803-1984.

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Skaneateles subject file, 1803-1984.

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Pamphlets, booklets, clippings, articles, genealogies, photographs, reports, programs, maps, biographies, autobiographies, speeches, and scrapbooks pertaining to the history of Skaneateles and vicinity. Items of note include an 1803 map of Marcellus and Skaneateles; minute books of the Skaneateles Detective Society, 1850-1936, originally founded to uncover horse thieves; local cemetery inscriptions, 1979; 1905 privately printed journal of Tryhena Ely White concerning her life in Camillus in 1805; notebook kept by W.H. Hall on fish caught, 1926-1939; and copies and typescripts of Victory Birdseye family letters, 1815-1843, mostly from Victory to his wife Electa Beebee Birdseye at Pompey, N.Y., while in Washington, D.C. serving in Congress, 1815-1816, discussing other Congressmen, politics, and Washington life. Other subjects include steamboats, geology, Indians, fishing, Quakers, railroads, women, John D. Barrow Art Gallery, and the Glen Haven water cure. Individuals covered include William Marvin, Dr. Stephen Smith, Benjamin Lee, Charles L. Elliott, and Dr. Harriet Knox.

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Skaneateles Library Association (Skaneateles, N.Y.)

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Collecting area: History of Skaneateles, records of the Library. From the description of Repository description. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 155458237 ...

Birdseye, Electa Beebee.

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Lee, Benjamin F. (Benjamin Franklin), 1841-1926

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John D. Barrow Art Gallery

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Birdseye, Victory, 1782-1853

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Knox, Harriet.

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Elliott, Charles Lawrence

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United States. Congress

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Bills of the 96th Congress to provide for temporary increases in the public debt limit, and for other purposes. From the description of Public debt legislation, 96th Congress : legislative history of public debt legislation, 1979-1980. (Louisiana State University). WorldCat record id: 243776779 Bill of the 96th Congress to impose a windfall profit tax on domestic crude oil, and for other purposes. From the description of Crude oil windfall profit tax act of 1980 ...

White, Tryhena Ely.

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Skaneateles Detective Society (Skaneateles, N.Y.)

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Society of Friends

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The Society of Friends (or 'Quakers') was formed by George Fox (1624-1691), a shoemaker from Nottingham. In the 1640s Fox travelled throughout England delivering sermons in which he argued that individuals could have direct access to God without the need for churches, priests or other aspects of the established Church. Fox's followers became known as the 'Friends of Truth' and later the 'Society of Friends'. Fox developed rules for the management of meetings, which were printed as 'Friends Fello...

Marvin, William G. (William Glenn), 1892-

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Hall, W. H. (William Henry), 1837-

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Smith, Stephen D.

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