George and James Redington papers, 1822-1919.

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George and James Redington papers, 1822-1919.

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This collection consists of personal and business correspondence, business papers and legal documents of George and James Redington. Also included are account books, records of the lumber business, notes (purchase and expenditures), orders (to pay bills), church papers/records of the Presbyterian church, post office correspondence, prints of rafts and boats, and materials on the Sons of Temperance (minutes of meetings, constitution and black book). St. Lawrence University purchased this collection in 1958 from a Canadian book dealer.

18.5 linear feet.

St. Lawrence University, Owen D. Young Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 7433605

St. Lawrence University, Owen D. Young Library

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Redington, James Duggan, 1945-....

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Sons of Temperance of North America

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Redington, George

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George Redington, lawyer, land speculator and lumber entrepreneur was born November 23, 1798 in Vergennes, Vermont. His family moved to Madrid, New York in 1799. He was educated at the St. Lawrence Academy and taught school in Montreal from 1816-1819. He returned to Waddington to study law and was admitted into the bar in 1823. He held various office; postmaster of Waddington 1829, 1831 Justice of the Peace, 1833-36 Supervisor of Town of Madrid, 1841-44 served in the State Assembly, and in 1845 ...