Brockway Diary Collection, 1866-1897.

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Brockway Diary Collection, 1866-1897.

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Diary collection, 1866-1897, of the Brockway family, including Daniel D. Brockway, his wife Lucena Brockway, J. N. Scott and his wife Mrs. J. N. Scott. It is probable that this last individual is the Brockway₂s daughter, Sarah L. Scott, one of the earliest white persons to have been born in the Lake Superior region. The majority of the diaries (twenty-seven of the thirty-two items) are by Lucena Brockway.

2.0 cubic feet; 7 boxes.

Michigan Technological University, J.R. Van Pelt & Opie Library; Michigan Tech

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SNAC Resource ID: 8005495

Michigan Technological University, J.R. Van Pelt & Opie Library; Michigan Tech

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Scott, Sarah L. b. 1844

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Brockway, Daniel D. 1815-1899.

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Daniel D. Brockway was born in Morrisville, Vermont May 2, 1815, but many of the details of his early life are unclear. As a youth, be moved with his family to Franklin County, New York, and then Chicago, Illinois, before arriving in Washtenaw County in Lower Michigan in 1831. It seems likely that he moved to Kalamazoo County, Michigan, in the early 1830s as he was married to Lucena Harris in Kalamazoo County, Michigan on January 21, 1836. Lucena was the daughter of Dr. James Harris, a noted pio...

D. D. Brockway & Son

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Scott, John N. 1838-1881

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Brockway, Lucena Harris 1816-1899.

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Daniel D. Brockway was born in Morrisville, Vermont on May 2, 1815, and moved with his brother to Washtenaw County in Lower Michigan in 1831. Lucena Brockway was born in May 1816, in Eden, New York, the daughter of Dr. James Harris. The two were married in Kalamazoo County, Michigan on January 21, 1836. In 1843, Daniel and Lucena moved to L₂Anse, where he had been appointed government blacksmith and mechanic. It was their hope to assist the Indians in this remote region of Michigan. In May 1846,...