Manuscripts

Family papers and photographs

Description: Julius Weyse diary and translation, mortgage deeds, cased photographs, family Bible, family facsimiles and Homestead Museum facsimiles.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Date: 1836-2017
Call number: mssBWW
Provenance: Gift of Joan Hedding, August 2025.
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Barrows, Weyse, and Wolfskill families papers

Manuscripts

Materials related to the Barrows, Weyse, and Wolfskill families papers, including a diary written in German describing Julius Weyse's voyage from Germany to San Francisco, mortgage documents, and a small Bible with an inscription about the marriage between Henry Barrows and Juana Wolfskill. Four cased photographs depict Juana Wolfskill Barrows, Henry Barrows, and William Wolfskill. Also included is a modern facsimile of the Meiner ABC German alphabet graphic designed by Julius Weyse in 1856; facsimiles of letters and photographs held with family members; copies of correspondence from the Homestead Museum in City of Industry, California; and copies of articles about family members.

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Meiner ABC facsimile

Manuscripts

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Clendenen Family Papers

Manuscripts

Clenenden family correspondence and the 1859 pocket diary kept by Clemens L. Clendenen cover Clendenen family affairs, farming, and property, including and a rift between Hyman Clendenen and his father over the land in Iowa and a homestead grant. The Civil War letters from Clemens L. Clenden to his wife Louisa Shinn Clendenen posted from Parkersburg, Clarksburg and New Creek, West Virginia. (Aug. Sept. - 1864) and a letter from Andersonville prison deal with camp life and comprise some discussion of war politics, Vallandigham and Copperheads. This portion of the collection also includes letters to Louisa from John V. Clendenen, and members of the 4th W. Virginia Cavalry about her husband's fate. Letters from William Lambden Clendenen to his fiance Mary Cowan (1887-1888) (32 pieces) describe his life in Ashland, Kansas, as a farmer and laborer. Correspondence between Colonel Clarence Clemens Clendenen and Confederate Historical Society (London) (1969-1972, 18 pieces) deal with history of the Civil War, especially in the West and border states, and discuss affairs of the Confederate Historical Society. Correspondents include Michael A. Rich, Robert Fowler, and Kenneth M. Broughton.

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Bourne family papers

Manuscripts

The collection consists primarily of writings and letters by George Bourne and his son Theodore Bourne. There are a few items written by Emeline Johnson Bourne. The majority of the collection is made of sermons, notes for sermons, essays, etc., on various subjects including: the Catholic Church, Christianity, the Reformed Dutch Churches, Protestantism, religion and its role in the world, the Bible, specific Bible verses, as well as slavery. Many of the sermons and essays are undated drafts, and often incomplete. The collection also contains several poems and some family correspondence. Other authors include: Sir Culling Eardley, Andrew Fernando Holmes, Ezra Stiles Ely and William Lloyd Garrison. There is ephemera, printed material, and photocopies of genealogical information at the end of the collection. Many items in the collection are in fragile condition.

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Clendenen family correspondence. 1855-1870

Manuscripts

Clendenen family correspondence and a 1859 pocket diary kept by Clemens L. Clendenen cover family affairs, farming, and property, including and a rift between Hyman Clendenen and his father over land in Iowa and a homestead grant.

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Gamble Family Papers, Records, and Photographs

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Box 178 contains photographs of the Gamble family houses in Cincinnati and summer cottage in Harbor Point, Michigan, their children Cecil, Sidney and Clarence, grandchildren, parents and siblings of David and Mary, family employees, as well as personal correspondence, genealogical information, biographies, and obituaries. Boxes 179 and 180 contain financial records from the 1950s and records of some of the family's philanthropic efforts, mostly related to missionary activities of the Presbyterian Church in Asia. Boxes 181-182 contain books that belonged to the family, including Pedigree of the Gambles of Fermanagh (1899) and Alfred Lief's "It Floats": The Story of Procter and Gamble (1958). Box 183 contains books by and about Sidney Gamble. Box 184 contains lantern slides of early family photographs, taken mostly in Harbor Point; Box 185 contains glass plate negatives, some of same images as in the lantern slides. Box 186 contains art prints and reproductions given by the Gamble family with the house. Box 187 contains a diary kept by Mary Gamble of the early childhood of her first-born son, Cecil. See also Boxes 86-87 which contain photograph albums by Sidney Gamble, including early photographs of the Gamble House.

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