Personal letter collection, 1792-1973.

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Personal letter collection, 1792-1973.

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Letters, postcards, invitations, certificates, and telegrams to Lindenhurst citizens about business, probate, retirement, payments, donations, awards, condolences, and politics, 1848-1973; personal and business letters, invitations, clippings, bills, notice of election of Arthur Neville as Justice of the Peace, passport, photographs, and small personal record book of various Neville family members, 1874-1927; notes and clippings about problems with probate of Dittman wills and Dittman correspondence, 1927-1930; promissory notes and receipts of F. William Jaqui of New York City, 1853-1864; dedication pamphlet for the Dittman Memorial Chapel located at the Central New York Spiritualist Association campgrounds in Freeville, N.Y., 1952; listing of military service of Herman Oelckers from 1895 to 1912 and teacher service report about Eleanor S. Neville, 1912-1916; love poem entitled to Phebe Fleet, 1792; letter from Herbert H. Lehman to Miss Anne Law to attend a buffet luncheon, 1936; and letters to Charles Wagner, a merchant, about legal matters, 1885-1887.

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Campbell University, Wiggins Memorial Library

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Campbell University, Wiggins Memorial Library

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Lindenhurst Historical Society (Lindenhurst, N.Y.)

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Collecting area: History of the Village of Lindenhurst, N.Y. From the description of Repository description. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 155546015 Clippings, programs, copy of speech, and minutes of the Village of Lindenhurst Centennial Celebration, 1969-1970; clippings about activities in the Town of Babylon, 1956-1984; and clippings about Long Island history, Indians, sports, and the local Fire Department. From the description of Clippings collection, 1950-1...

Lehman, Herbert H. (Herbert Henry), 1878-1963

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Herbert Henry Lehman (March 28, 1878 – December 5, 1963) was an American investment banker and politician. A member of the Democratic Party, he notably served from 1933 until 1942 as the 45th Governor of New York and as U.S. Senator from New York between 1949 and 1957. Born in Manhattan, he attended The Sachs School and Sachs Collegiate Institute before earning a B.A. from Williams College. After graduating, Lehman worked in textile manufacturing, eventually becoming vice-president and treasu...

Central New York Spiritualist Association (Freeville, N.Y.)

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Oelckers, Herman.

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Neville, Eleanor S.

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Law, Anne L.

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Wagner, Charles U.

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Flax was grown at least by 1844 in the Willamette Valley. A flax oil mill was established at Salem in 1867, and the first flax-spinning mill was operating at Albany by the 1870s. An exhibit of Oregon flax won the bronze medal and certificate of merit at the Philadelphia Centennial Exposition in 1876. By the 1890s, the U.S. Department of Agriculture was touting Oregon and Washington as good flax growing areas; however, costly hand labor required to harvest and process it and competition with Euro...

Jaqui, F. William.

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Fleet, Phebe.

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Neville, Arthur

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