Stow family papers, 1847-1872.

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Stow family papers, 1847-1872.

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Collection of papers of several people whose name was Stow (also spelled Stowe), who lived in Addison County, Vermont, but do not appear to have been related; a letter to Nash (Jan. 1847) is in the Nash papers; a letter from Nash (May 1847) is in this collection, as is a letter from Stow (June 1848) whose recipient is unknown as it is simply addressed Dear Sir; three letters from Stow to Henry Sheldon (1847-1849) are in the Henry L. Sheldon papers. Collection contains a letter to Milo and Beulah Stow from Rev. John B. Rogers in Oronoco, Minn. (1859) recalls happy days in Weybridge, Vt., describes his journey west and his new home in Oronoco, and sends greetings to a list of friends in Weybridge; another letter to Milo Stow (1862) from Asaph Drake of Weybridge concerns the military draft during the Civil War. Collection contains a number of letters (1869-1872) to Loyal W. Stow (or Stowe), County Commissioner for Addison County, concern the appointment of agents to sell liquor in several towns in the country or report liquor sold by the agents. One (Sept. 30, 1870) is a complaint that the agent in Shoreham is selling as much liquor as possible in order to make a profit, harming the reputation of the town and its school.

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Stow, Marietta Lois Beers, 1830 or 1837-1902

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Marietta Lois Beers was born in New York state about 1835, a daughter of Wakeman Beers and Lois (Louise) Wood. At 19 she married a Cleveland, Ohio, merchant named Bell; he and their only son died within the next five years. After the death of her second husband, San Francisco businessman Joseph Washington Stow (1874), the women's suffrage leader wrote Probate Confiscation (1876) and Probate Chaff (1879), as well as editing the periodical Woman's Herald of Industry (San Francisco), 1881-1884. Whi...

Stowe, Loyal W., 1814-1886

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Stow, Milo, 1793-1865

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Stow, Beulah

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Rogers, John B., Rev.

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Drake, Asaph, 1775-1871

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Nash, Charles D. (Charles Dennis), 1819-

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Epithet: of London British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001297.0x0001f1 ...

Stowe family.

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Stow family.

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J.W. Stow was a businessman who worked for Charles D. Nash in Middlebury in the 1840s and then moved to New York City around 1847; David Stow (d. 1778) settled in Weybridge with his family before the Revolution, and was captured along with his teen-age son Clark and held prisoner in Canada, where David died in 1778. Clark (d. 1839) returned to Weybridge and was reunited with the rest of his family following the war. Milo Stow (1793-1865) was one of Clark's sons; due to changes in the border betw...