Alphaeus H. and Lillian Smith Albert collection, ca. 1700-[ongoing].

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Alphaeus H. and Lillian Smith Albert collection, ca. 1700-[ongoing].

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/70942139

Correspondence, account books, programs, histories, minutes, sermons, notes, yearbooks, mss., deeds, broadsides, membership lists, and other materials, written by/or collected by the Albert and his wife, Lillian Smith Albert, chiefly relating to Hightstown and East Windsor, N.J., history; personal papers; and materials about button collecting, authored or co-authored by Lillian Albert, also an authority on buttons. Includes newspaper clippings concerning the history of Hightstown and East Windsor; papers relating to A.H. Albert's service as the municipal historian; articles and papers about Hightstown written by Jacob Stults, Maurice P. Shuman, Jr., Robert W. Craig, and Clark J. Hutchinson; deeds and certificates of Haight/Hight family members; notes on the Union Transportation Company railroad; early invoices of local businesses; campaign insignia; Civil War monument materials; records of Bryant Literary Society of the Hightstown High School; materials of Peddie School; and miscellaneous records of First Baptist Church of Hightstown, Hightstown Universalist Church, and Hightstown Memorial Library.

ca. 4 linear ft.

Hightstown-East Windsor Historical Society

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SNAC Resource ID: 8047010

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Barton, Clara, 1821-1912

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Civil War nurse, suffragist, and founder of the American Red Cross Clarissa Harlow Barton was born in North Oxford, MA, on December 25, 1821, the fifth and last child of Stephen and Sarah (Stone) Barton. She was a shy and lonely child, and for two years at the age of eleven she devoted her time to nursing her brother David during a protracted illness, an experience which later affected her life's work. At eighteen she began to teach in neighboring schools. In 1850 she spent a year at the Libe...

Hightstown Universalist Church (Hightstown, N.J.)

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Universalist Church Society (also known as First Universalist Society) organized in 1839; reorganized as Hightstown Universalist Church in 1871. From the description of Records, 1858-1936. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 70948779 ...

Craig, Robert W. (Robert William), 1953-

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First Presbyterian Church (Hightstown, N.J.)

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Founded 1857. From the description of Records, 1917-1976. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 70947976 ...

Hight family.

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Albert family.

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Shuman, Maurice P.

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Historian, of Hightstown, N.J.; b. Maurice P. Shuman, Jr. From the description of Paper, 1972. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 70954220 ...

Coterie Club (Hightstown, N.J.)

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Men's social and study club. From the description of Records, 1914-1982. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 70950421 ...

First Baptist Church of Hightstown (Hightstown, N.J.)

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Hutchinson, Clark J.

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Bryant Literary Society (Hightstown High School)

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Smith, William, 1722?-1791

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Merchant and miller, of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and Hightstown (then in Windsor Township, Middlesex County), Mercer County, New Jersey; born in Ireland; served as a Continental Army officer during the American Revolution. From the description of Account books, 1769-1791. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122591528 U.S. Army officer, merchant, and innkeeper, of Hightstown, N.J.; known as Capt. William Smith. From the description of Papers, 1781-1981 (bulk 1781-18...

Haight family.

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Friday Club (Hightstown, N.J.)

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Women's social club. From the description of Records, 1906-1965. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 70947979 ...

Hightstown High School (Hightstown, N.J.)

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Established 1912. From the description of Hightstown High School collection, 1930-1971. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 70948364 ...

Peddie School

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Private school for boys founded as New Jersey Classical and Scientific Institute in 1864; in ca. 1872 name changed to Peddie Institute; in 1923 renamed Peddie School; in Hightstown, N.J. From the description of Records, 1893-1951. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 70945154 ...

Albert, Alphaeus Homer, 1891-

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Local historian, teacher, and authority on the history of U.S. military uniform buttons, of Hightstown, N.J.; birthdate also appears as 1890; d. 1983. From the description of Alphaeus H. and Lillian Smith Albert collection, ca. 1700-[ongoing]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 70942139 ...

Union Transportation Company

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Stults, Jacob

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Hightstown Memorial Library (Hightstown, N.J.)

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Camden and Amboy Railroad and Transportation Company

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Incorporated 1830. From the description of Freight bill, 1856 June 4. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 70975359 Railroad and steamboat company owned by the Stevens family. From the description of Letterbook, 1846-1869. (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 154270283 From the description of Letterbook, 1846-1869. (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 17158343 ...