Lyman A. Spalding papers, 1811-1864 (bulk).

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Lyman A. Spalding papers, 1811-1864 (bulk).

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This collection, which throws light on the intellectual history of Western New York and on the anti-slavery movement in the North (1822-36), includes letters to Spalding relating to his mercantile business in Canandaigua, Ontario County (1817-23) and in Lockport, Niagara County (1823-50); to his manufacture of agricultural implements in Lockport (1840s); to merchandising in New York and the Midwest (1820-40); to banking in Rochester and New York (1819-24); and to labor, land, and lumbering in Michigan Territory (1817-35). Included are letters from Thomas B. Barnum of Canandaigua (1823-24), editor of the ONTARIO FREEMAN (a Canandaigua, N.Y. newspaper) and co-editor with Spalding of PLAIN TRUTH; letters from Elisha Dean of Rochester (1829-30) on local affairs, court cases, and the election of 1830; letters from Holmes Hutchinson, surveyor, on personal affairs, and on surveys in New England on the Erie and other canals; letters from Elihu Francis Marshall, who was the city treasurer of Rochester, a reformer, journalist, printer, and publisher, on personal affairs, business, banking, politics, and churches in Rochester, and satirizing the "Missionary spirit"; a letter (1826) describing missionary activities in the Society Islands; letters from Harvey Newcomb of Rochester (1820s) on politics, business, and the press. Many of the letters of the 1820s comment on the political and economic agitation over the construction and functioning of the Erie and other canals. Also included are letters relating to the establishment by Spalding of the newspaper PRIESTCRAFT EXPOSED AND PRIMITIVE CHRISTIANITY DEFENDED, the manuscript editorials and articles for the first issue, and other letters concerning its relationship to the PLAIN TRUTH; three letters to Spalding from Benjamin Lundy (1835-36) relating to his plan to establish a colony in Mexico, to the "Mexican Insurrection" and to the intention of Lydia Maria Francis Child to settle in the colony, and mentioning John Quincy Adams's purchase for distribution of 150 Texas pamphlets; a plea by Oliver Wetmore of Utica, secretary of the NYSSAS, to the presidents of local abolitionist groups (of which Spalding was one) to subsidize the STANDARD DEMOCRAT of Utica as an abolitionist newspaper; and copies of the PLAIN TRUTH.

.4 cubic ft.

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Child, Lydia Maria, 1802-1880

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Lydia Maria Child was born Lydia Maria Francis in Medford, Massachusetts on February 11, 1802. She was born into an abolitionist family and was greatly influenced by her brother, Convers, who would later become a Unitarian Clergyman. After the death of her mother in 1814, Child moved to Maine to live with her sister and began teaching in Gardiner in 1819. While living in Maine, Child became increasingly interested in Native Americans and visited many nearby settlements. Child began actively writ...

Wetmore, Oliver

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Hutchinson, Holmes, 1794-1865

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Civil engineer from Utica, N.Y. Hutchinson served as an engineer on the Erie Canal and served as its chief engineer from 1835 to 1841. He also owned a large amount of land in Oneida County, N.Y. From the description of Papers, 1803-1889. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122434132 Holmes Hutchinson of Utica, New York, was a tutor for Franklin A. Hudson, son of Silas F. Hudson. Hutchinson travelled annually, 1844-1851, to the Hudson's sugar plantation at Bayou Goula, Louisiana, ...

Spalding, Lyman A.

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Merchant, reformer, abolitionist. Lyman A. Spalding was a Quaker merchant involved in manufacturing and banking in New York State and the Midwest, and real estate and lumbering in Michigan Territory early in the 19th century. He was an active member in the abolition movement, edited the PLAIN TRUTH, and established the newspaper PRIESTCRAFT EXPOSED AND PRIMITIVE CHRISTIANITY DEFENDED. From the description of Lyman A. Spalding papers, 1811-1864 (bulk). (Cornel...

Dean, Elisha.

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Marshall, Elihu Francis

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Barnum, Thomas B.

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Newcomb, Harvey, 1803-1863

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Lundy, Benjamin, 1789-1839

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Abolitionist, publisher, and author. From the description of Benjamin Lundy papers, 1814-1906. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 70981064 Quaker abolitionist who published a newspaper, Genius of Universal Emancipation, in Baltimore, MD. that was devoted to the complete abolition of slavery in the United States. From the description of Letter, Sept. 23, 1838. (Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library). WorldCat record id: 52538372 ...