Kaercher and Packer family papers, 1789-1938.
Collection Number: 347
Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
Cornell University Library
DESCRIPTIVE SUMMARY
Title:
Kaercher and Packer family papers, 1789-1938.
Repository:
Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
Collection Number:
347
Abstract:
Correspondence and other papers relating the life of George Kaercher, who was a divinity
student at Burr Seminary in Manchester, Vermont and Western Reserve College in Ohio,
and later a minister in Ohio. Also includes papers of the Packer family.
Creator:
Kaercher family.
Packer family.
Quanitities:
2.5 cubic feet.
4 volumes.
2 mapcase folders.
Language:
Collection material in English
George Kaercher was a divinity student at Burr Seminary, Manchester, Vermont, and
Western Reserve, Ohio and a minister in Ohio.
Letters to Kaercher commenting on education, economic and social conditions, the costs
of travel, revivals among students and laymen, Taylorism (New Haven theology), Millerism
(Millerite movement), the need of ministers among German immigrants of Ohio and Pennsylvania,
the American Tract Society, religion on the frontier, epidemics, the Reverend Albert
Barnes, Dr. Tyng, and other divines; commissions and reports to the American Home
Missionary Society, licenses to preach, accounts as to expenses and salaries; correspondence
of Rev. Kaercher during the Civil War with the Woman's Central Association of Relief,
sermons, and a few Anti-Masonic and Anti-Slavery items. Also, Packer family papers,
including deeds, agreements, accounts, receipts, personal and business correspondence
of the Packer, Mason, and Kaercher families; veterinary formulas of Johnathan Packer;
includes diaries, essays, poetry, and miscellanea. Families are centered in Preston,
Chenango County, New York.
INFORMATION FOR USERS
Kaercher and Packer family papers, #347. Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections,
Cornell University Library.
Names:
Kaercher, George.
Barnes, Albert.
Packer, Johnathan.
Mason family.
Burr Seminary
Western Reserve College
American Tract Society
American Home Missionary Society
Woman\'s Central Association of Relief
Places:
Chenango County (N.Y.) -- Religious life and customs.
Chenango County (N.Y.) -- Social conditions.
Chenango County (N.Y.) -- Economic conditions.
Subjects:
Clergy.
Veterinary drugs.
Revivals.
Immigrants.
New Haven theology.
Millerite movement.
Antislavery movements.
Freemasonry.
Families -- New York (State) -- Preston.
Theological seminaries.
Form and Genre Terms:
Diaries.
Sermons.
CONTAINER LIST
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Container
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Description
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Date
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| Box 1 |
B, Woodruff and Packer. Deeds, letters, account, receipts, 1789-1912 and no date.
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1789-1912 | |
| Box 2 |
A 4-5, Sermons of Rev. George Kaercher.
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A 1-3, Kaercher papers.
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| Box 3 | Folder 1 |
1 religious poem written in German -
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1816 |
| Box 3 | Folder 1 |
1 letter - May 8, 1838 - John W. Elliot to George Kaercher - from Manual Labor Inst.,
Marion, Ala. - lack of educational advantages in South - opportunity for "enterprising
merchant, mechanic, or professional man"
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May 8, 1838 |
| Box 3 | Folder 1 |
2 letters - Feb. 12 and Dec. 13, 1834 - from Williams College - Oliver M. Sears to
Kaercher - college life, religious excitement, aid for those studying for the ministry
at Williams
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Feb. 12 1834, Dec. 13, 1834 |
| Box 3 | Folder 1 |
1 letter - 1839 - Hudson, Ohio - unsigned to Kaercher - costs of going from Albany
to Ohio, living costs at Western Reserve, etc. - idea of Kaercher laboring among own
people in West - muddy roads in Ohio - Prof. St. John and collection of mineral specimens
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1839 |
| Box 3 | Folder 1 |
1 letter - Oct. 1839 - to Kaercher - received $15 aid from American Education Society
while at Burr Seminary
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Oct. 1839 |
| Box 3 | Folder 1 |
1 pledge - Nov. 1839 , Manchester, Vt. - by students to pray, on separation, for each
member of group for one year
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Nov. 1839 |
| Box 3 | Folder 1 |
1 letter - Dec. 16, 1839 - Western Reserve - Jacob Patch to Kaercher - division of
church in Sharon - religious schism - division among congregations of churches - urges
Kaercher to bring whole class with him to Western Reserve - college literary societies
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Dec. 16, 1839 |
| Box 3 | Folder 1 |
1 letter - Feb. 25, 1840 - Watertown - Guernsey to Kaercher - religious revival -
sermons of M. Grovsnor
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Feb. 25, 1840 |
| Box 3 | Folder 1 |
Expenses at Burr Seminary -
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Mar. 25, 1840 |
| Box 3 | Folder 1 |
Receipt for work -
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July 4, 1841 |
| Box 3 | Folder 1 |
1 letter - July 27, 1840 - Amenia - Hiram Weed to Kaercher - on aid from home people
to Kaercher - hard times - furnaces
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July 27, 1840 |
| Box 3 | Folder 1 |
1 letter - July 9, 1840 - Upton, Mass. - M. Grosvenor conducting good revival in region
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July 9, 1840 |
| Box 3 | Folder 1 |
1 letter - Oct. 10, 1840 - Burr Seminary - uses shorthand - epidemic (?) - many deaths
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Oct. 10, 1840 |
| Box 3 | Folder 1 |
1 letter - Mar. 13, 1841 - Manchester
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Mar. 13, 1841 |
| Box 3 | Folder 1 |
1 letter - Mar. 28, 1841 - Aaron Read to Kaercher urging him to sing in gallery in
church, not to leave it, that singing before long will be from front of pulpit
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Mar. 28, 1841 |
| Box 3 | Folder 1 |
1 letter - July 31, 1841 - S.N. Grant to Kaercher - Storatton - Kaercher has been
helping to conduct revivals - state of Burr Seminary - 4th July celebration at Townsend
(3 or 400,000 present)
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July 31, 1841 |
| Box 3 | Folder 1 |
1 letter - May 6, 1842 - Manchester - Grant - condition of Burr Seminary - no religious
revival, revival at Williams College (only 20 students there impenitent)
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May 6, 1842 |
| Box 3 | Folder 1 |
1 letter - Apr. 25, 1843 - Sharon - Hiram Weed to Kaercher - Presbyterians and revival
- (Methodists influenced by Millerism) - Christ to come this month - not many to believe
this part "yet the multitude that came to hear from curiosity were willing to attend
from night to night that they might hear the truth from Mr. Reed and others"
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Apr. 25, 1843 |
| Box 3 | Folder 1 |
1 letter - June 9, 1843 - Savanah - Christine Carlen to Kaercher at Western Reserve
- husband
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June 9, 1843 |
| Box 3 | Folder 1 |
1 letter - Oct. 1, 1843 - Sharon - Hiram Weed - Post Office creates excitement - revival
died down
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Oct. 1, 1843 |
| Box 3 | Folder 1 |
1 letter - Oct. 24, 1843 - Detroit - Lucious C. Rouse - had proposed to American Tract
Society that Kaercher work during vacation in Stack Co. - ATS refused, wanting permanent
works - Rouse urges Kaercher to preach to Germans in Ohio or Penn. and consult with
German Reformed or Presbyterians Church - number of Germans in Springfield and Canton
- urges Kaercher to spend vacation in exploration trip among these Germans and in
giving away tracts
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Oct. 24, 1843 |
| Box 3 | Folder 2 |
1 citizenship papers - George Kaercher - May 21, 1844 , Akron, Ohio
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May 21, 1844 |
| Box 3 | Folder 2 |
1 licence to preach - July 24, 1844 - Hudson - G. Kaercher - by Presbytery of Portage
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July 24, 1844 |
| Box 3 | Folder 2 |
1 letter - Oct. 21, 1844 - Yale - Guernsey to G. Kaercher
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Oct. 21, 1844 |
| Box 3 | Folder 2 |
1 commission from Home Missionary Society - Dec. 21, 1844 - G. Kaercher - six months
at Northampton, Summit Co., Ohio - to receive $25 and rent from congregation
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Dec. 21, 1844 |
| Box 3 | Folder 2 |
1 letter - Mar. 14, 1845 - Guernsey to Kaercher - Kaercher's brother Frederick arrested
for counterfeiting money
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Mar. 14, 1845 |
| Box 3 | Folder 2 |
1 letter - Aug. 4, 1845 - Guernsey to Kaercher - description of Albert Barnes, Stephen
Higginson, Dr. Tying
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Aug. 4, 1845 |
| Box 3 | Folder 2 |
1 diploma - Aug. 14, 1845 - G. Kaercher - Western Reserve College
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Aug. 14, 1845 |
| Box 3 | Folder 2 |
1 commission from Home Missionary Society - Sept. 1, 1845 - 1 year at Peninsula -
$100
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Sept. 1, 1845 |
| Box 3 | Folder 2 |
1 letter - Oct. 22, 1845 - Yale - Guernsey to Kaercher - New School Presbyterian Church
at Newburgh, N.Y.
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Oct. 22, 1845 |
| Box 3 | Folder 2 |
1 letter - Nov. 20, 1845 - Lima, Mich. - E.P. Marvin - on advantages of minister's
life
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Nov. 20, 1845 |
| Box 3 | Folder 2 |
1 license - Nov. 24, 1845 - State of Ohio - to Kaercher to perform marriages
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Nov. 24, 1845 |
| Box 3 | Folder 2 |
1 letter - Jan. 20, 1846 - Yale - Blakeslee to Kaercher - likes Wm. Taylor as lecturer
but condemns Taylorism
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Jan. 20, 1846 |
| Box 3 | Folder 2 |
1 letter - Jan. 26, 1846 - Wolcottville, Conn. - theory of annihilation of the wicked
- on salaries
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Jan. 26, 1846 |
| Box 3 | Folder 2 |
1 letter - July 7, 1846 - New Haven - Blakeslee - Westerner by birth, nothing would
keep him in East - influence of Reserve in Ohio, on Lakes and Mississippi Valley -
"For the people of the Reserve have the intelligence and enterprise of North East
combined with the energy and go-a-headativeness of the West"
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July 7, 1846 |
| Box 3 | Folder 2 |
1 letter - Aug. 24, 1846 - Knoxville, Knox Co., Ill. - R.C. Bristol to Kaercher -
describes state of churches
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Aug. 24, 1846 |
| Box 3 | Folder 2 |
1 commission - Sept. 1, 1846 - G. Kaercher - 1 year at Peninsula, Ohio, for $100
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Sept. 1, 1846 |
| Box 3 | Folder 2 |
1 quarterly report to American Home Missionary Society - Dec. 11, 1846 - Peninsula
- G. Kaercher - Methodists held protracted meeting - quite a lot of sickness
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Dec. 11, 1846 |
| Box 3 | Folder 3 |
1 letter - Mar. 8, 1847 - H.K. Smith to Kaercher - formation of a Teacher's Institute
for schoolteachers
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Mar. 8, 1847 |
| Box 3 | Folder 3 |
1 letter - Dec. 28, 1846 - Northampton - R.C. Bristol - preached in bar using bar
for pulpit
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Dec. 28, 1846 |
| Box 3 | Folder 3 |
1 quarterly report to AHM - asks for leave to visit sick mother -
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June 9, 1847 |
| Box 3 | Folder 3 |
1 letter - July 26, 1847 - R.C. Bristol - urges Kaercher to come to Illinois - great
need for ministers
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July 26, 1847 |
| Box 3 | Folder 3 |
1 commission - Nov. 1, 1849 - G. Kaercher - Peninsula - 1 year - $75
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Nov. 1, 1849 |
| Box 3 | Folder 3 |
1 letter - June 21, 1848 - Henry Reid to Kaercher - presents plan for him to come
to Waterville and preach half the time and spend half under the direction of American
Tract Society
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June 21, 1848 |
| Box 3 | Folder 3 |
Additional papers
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3 letters -
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1850 | ||
| Box 3 | Folder 4 |
Hiram Weed to G. Kaercher - Sharon
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| Box 3 | Folder 4 |
Joel Case to G. Kaercher - Victoria, Tex.
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| Box 3 | Folder 4 |
Eunice Ford to G. Kaercher
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3 letters -
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1851 | ||
| Box 3 | Folder 4 |
S. Wright to G. Kaercher - New Berlin
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| Box 3 | Folder 4 |
Charles Cunty to G. Kaercher - Peninsula
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| Box 3 | Folder 4 |
Aaron Reed to G. Kaercher - Sharon
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| Box 3 | Folder 4 |
1 commission - 1851 - to G. Kaercher - Preston - 1 yr. 50
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1851 |
| Box 3 | Folder 4 |
1 petition - 1851 - to American Home Missionary Society for payment of $50 to Kaercher
- congregation to pay $200
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1851 |
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3 letters -
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1852 | ||
| Box 3 | Folder 4 |
Catherine Kaercher to G. Kaercher - father
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| Box 3 | Folder 4 |
Catherine Kaercher to G. Kaercher - father
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| Box 3 | Folder 4 |
Eunice Ford to G. Kaercher
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2 letters -
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1854 | ||
| Box 3 | Folder 4 |
George and Cornelia Kaercher to Lucy Packer
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| Box 3 | Folder 4 |
Lucy Packer to George and Cornelia Kaercher
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| Box 3 | Folder 4 |
5 letters - 1854 - George Kaercher to his wife, Cornelia
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1854 |
| Box 3 | Folder 4 |
1 letter - 1855 - Catherine Kaercher to G. Kaercher
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1855 |
| Box 3 | Folder 4 |
Additional papers
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| Box 3 | Folder 5 |
1 letter - 1856 - G. Kaercher to nephew - Preston
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1856 |
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4 letters -
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1857 | ||
| Box 3 | Folder 5 |
Wm. Potter to G. Kaercher - Claridon
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| Box 3 | Folder 5 |
G.W. Roberts to G. Kaercher - Green, N.Y.
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| Box 3 | Folder 5 |
H.W. Gilbert to G. Kaercher - Green, N.Y.
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| Box 3 | Folder 5 |
J. Patch to G. Kaercher - Orland, Ind.
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4 letters -
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1858 | ||
| Box 3 | Folder 5 |
J. Patch to G. Kaercher - Orland, Ind.
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| Box 3 | Folder 5 |
Ellen to Cornelia Kaercher - Cleveland
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| Box 3 | Folder 5 |
Edward Baymal to G. Kaercher - concerning death of Kaercher's sister, Catherine Baymal,
and son
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| Box 3 | Folder 5 |
C.A. Hernandes to G. Kaercher - Savannah - concerning death of Kaercher's sister
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2 letters -
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1859 | ||
| Box 3 | Folder 5 |
G. Kaercher to his wife - Tabery
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| Box 3 | Folder 5 |
G. Kaercher to nephew - Preston
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| Box 3 | Folder 5 |
2 letters - 1862 - Woman's Central Ass. of Relief to G. Kaercher
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1862 |
| Box 3 | Folder 5 |
8 letters to G. Kaercher from Elisabeth Wilbur and children
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5 letters -
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1864 | ||
| Box 3 | Folder 5 |
Mary Fairbanks to Cornelia Kaercher
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| Box 3 | Folder 5 |
S. Wait to G. Kaercher - Four Mill Grove
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| Box 3 | Folder 5 |
J.K. Mason to G. Kaercher
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| Box 3 | Folder 5 |
2 letters - G. Kaercher to his mother - Sharon
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4 letters -
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1866 | ||
| Box 3 | Folder 6 |
Sharon - George Wilbur - to G. Kaercher
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| Box 3 | Folder 6 |
Tomah - F. Ebert to G. Kaercher
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| Box 3 | Folder 6 |
Tomah - Daniel Ebert to G. Kaercher
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| Box 3 | Folder 6 |
Pottsville - George Kaercher to George Kaercher
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4 letters -
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1868 | ||
| Box 3 | Folder 6 |
Catherine Field to G. Kaercher - Trempealeau
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| Box 3 | Folder 6 |
Charles A. Throop to G. Kaercher - Trempealeau
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| Box 3 | Folder 6 |
James A. Throop to G. Kaercher - Trempealeau
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| Box 3 | Folder 6 |
Helen Noyes to Cornelia Kaercher
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2 letters -
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1869 | ||
| Box 3 | Folder 6 |
Daniel Ebert to G. Kaercher
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| Box 3 | Folder 6 |
Aaron Reed to G. Kaercher
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2 letters -
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1874 | ||
| Box 3 | Folder 6 |
Daniel Ebert to G. Kaercher
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| Box 3 | Folder 6 |
D. Vrooman to G. Kaercher
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| Box 3 | Folder 6 |
2 letters - 1878 - G. Kaercher to family
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1878 |
| Box 3 | Folder 7 |
3 letters - Mary Fairbanks to Cornelia Kaercher - Barnabas Horves Jr. to George Kaercher
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| Box 3 | Folder 7 |
Constitution of the Social and Benevolent Society of the Town of Preston
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| Box 3 | Folder 7 |
Report of number of bibles in families of church
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| Box 3 | Folder 7 |
List of subscribers for benefit of George Kaercher
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| Box 3 | Folder 7 |
8 miscellaneous pieces
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| Box 4 |
B, Woodruff and Packer. Justice of the Peace records, elections records, etc., Preston,
NY, 1817-1890 and no date.
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1817-1890 | |
| Box 4 |
Mss., diries of Kaercher, Mason, Noyes, and Packer families, 1817-1922 and no date.
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1817-1922 | |
| Box 5 |
Volumes, assessment book, 1848 ; genealogical information on Beaumont, Mason, Packer,
Pratt, Woodruff and other families,
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18481764-1940. | |
| Box 6 |
Scrapbooks, copybooks, 1836-1913 and no date. Also list of voters Town of Preston,
Oct. 13, 1863 ; "The German Church Friend for American German Churches," Jan.-Dec.
1850 , 11 issues.
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1836-1913Oct. 13, 1863Jan.-Dec. 1850 | |
| Box 7 |
Photographs.
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| Box 7 |
Misc. printed material on Centennial Exhibition, Philadelphia, Pa., 1876 , souvenir
item.
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1876 | |
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Four loose mss. vols.
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| Volume 1 |
Loose mss. vol.
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| Volume 2 |
Loose mss. vol.
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| Volume 3 |
Loose mss. vol.
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| Volume 4 |
Loose mss. vol.
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