Samuel L. Kauffman collection.

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Samuel L. Kauffman collection.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/41551158

This collection consists of the papers of Samuel L. Kauffman, for the years 1902-1938. The collection includes diaries (1902-1925), ledgers (1912, 1923-1938), and ephemera (1922-1931). The diaries give a good record of the weather conditions. They also show the day to day activities of a farmer in the early part of the 20th century. They do not reveal his inner thoughts. The ledgers document expenses incurred by an ordinary Mich. citizen. Information about day to day expenses can also be found in the diaries. The ephemera consists of newspaper clippings and note paper. The collection is arranged alphabetically by type of record, then chronologically within that arrangement.

1 mss. box .5 cu. ft.

State Archive of Michigan

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State Archive of Michigan

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Kauffman, Samuel L., b. 1879.

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Samuel L. Kauffman was born in 1879 in Pennsylvania, eventually moving to Ionia County, Mich. as a farmer. The earliest entry (1902) places him in Odessa Township, where he paid taxes. His wife, Lottie M. Kauffman was born in 1883. They had three children, Hulda C. (b.1904), Gertrude E. (b.1906), and Beatrice (b.1913). From 1917-1922, he owned 63 acres, three horses and 14 cattle. He lived on Road 11 in Sebewa Township, RFD 4, Lake Odessa, Mich. By 1925, the last diary entry, only Beatrice lived...