Henry Vail papers

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  Henry Vail papers

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  A collection of 108 items from 1840-1918, which contains personal and business correspondence as well as government records pertaining to the emerging mining industry in California. The collection includes legal and governmental records such as agreements, bills and receipts, bills of sale, deeds, a deposition, homestead claims, land indentures, an insurance policy, mine maps, mine reports, notices of location, a land protest, and a Water Appropriation Notice. Because Henry Vail created and stored these records, his outgoing letters are not included in this collection. Additionally, some of the discussions are fragmented or may have long periods of silence within the surviving material.

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  "Jacob Blukunduper" letter to Lewis Vail, New Dover, Ohio

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  A letter addressed to Lewis Vail and signed "Jacob Blukunduper (?)" discusses the early history of Moravian missions in Ohio

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  Vail, Thomas

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  Five letters of correspondence. Two between Otis Chandler and Thomas Vail, Publisher and Editor of The Plain Dealer. The other three between Freddie Miller and Vail.

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  Henry Scamman Papers

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  This collection contains papers of prominent Northern California banker Henry Scamman. The first six boxes consist entirely of correspondence, the lone exception being a manuscript entitled "Mind your Business," one of Scamman's school papers. Highlights include an extensive series of correspondence between the husband and wife from the early 1890s detailing Scamman's discovery that one of his trusted employees, Henry T. Briggs, had embezzled thousands of dollars from Scamman's bank in Downieville. Though Scamman did not prosecute Briggs criminally, he ordered his disgraced clerk to hand over all of his life insurance, his stock in the gold mine in which both men had invested, and any money in his possession. Also prominent in the correspondence are letters to and from captains of Scamman's ship, the bark "Wildwood." The collection's ephemera component is its largest, and includes business ledgers, checks, legal documents, receipts, bills, mortgages, promissory notes, insurance policies, deeds, and tax forms. There is also an autographed copy of a book given to Scamman's daughter in 1932 in oversize. Subjects in the collection include: agriculture; banks and banking; Butte County and Downieville (Calif.); merchant ships; mining; Saco (Maine).

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  Lewis Vail memoirs, Canton, Stark Co

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  Vail's manuscript memoir depicts immigration to Ohio, life in the first settlements, including travels, business, schools, medical care, and courts. A significatn portion of the manuscripts deals with the War of 1812 in Ohio, especially operations against the Indians, including the siege of Fort Meigs in 1813.

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  William Henry Shimmin papers

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  A collection of 82 items from 1882 to 1915, it consists of letters, documents, deeds, bills, legal papers, and one map related to William Henry Shimmin and his involvement in business and mining matters. The contents of the collection chiefly deal with mining claims in Nevada, mainly at Goldfield, and with the Jamestown Townsite Company.

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