Grafton H. Cook collection, 1800-1989.

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Cook, Grafton H.,. Grafton H. Cook collection, 1800-1989.

Grafton H. Cook collection, 1800-1989.

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Photocopies of genealogical papers of the Hutton family of Cass County, Michigan, the Huntting family of New York; material from the Bible of the Longwell family. Three general accounting ledgers for the Mattawan General Store in Mattawan, Michigan; most pages have been used as a scrapbook and are covered with newspaper clippings on a variety of home study courses, including civil service, mathematics, history, geography, drawing, science, accounting, and literature, c. 1866-1898. The Mills on Reynolds, by Grafton H. Cook, II, n. d. Business records from S.E. Overton Company, South Haven, Michigan and Grafton H. Cook Lumber Company, Dowagiac, Michigan. Catalogs of hardwood products and manufacturing equipment and tools used in the graphic arts and woodworking industries. Membership lists and newsletters for the Indiana Hardwood Lumbermen's Association, 1975-1984. Business records, primarily invoices and purchase orders for Sandberg Manufacturing Company, Chicago and Cook Products Company, Burr Oak, Michigan, ca. 1975-1980. Abstract of Title for Gideon P. Zehner, includes lists of property owners, deeds, conveyances, summons, will and testaments, judgments, mortgages, tax slips, and plat map for land in Marshall County, Indiana sold to Zehner by Lewellyn and Catharine McClure in 1905. Written memorial of Simeon Belknap (1873-1908), a prominent physician who lived in Niles, Michigan, 1908. Journal of Judge William Connor that traces Connor's journey from New Hampshire to Michigan in 1828 and his homesteading in Nottawa Prairie area of St. Joseph County, Michigan, ca. 1879-1908. Book of poems by and for Anne Janette Powers Connor who married William Connor in 1838. Cartes de visite and tintypes of Connor family members, ca. 1865-1870. Personal and business correspondence of Frank H. Chesebro of New York and South Haven, Michigan, 1873-1903. Minutes, correspondence, contractor binds, invoices, newspaper clipping and photographs for Cass County Buildings and Grounds Committee and Cass County, Michigan, Board of Commissioners concerning construction plans and improvements for various county projects including the jail, courthouse, and new office building, ca. 1957-1971.

4 cu. ft.89 cu. ft. (unprocessed)

Western Michigan University, Dwight B. Waldo Library