Turner family papers, 1799-1891.
Collection Number: 689

Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
Cornell University Library


DESCRIPTIVE SUMMARY

Title:
Turner family papers, 1799-1891.
Repository:
Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
Collection Number:
689
Abstract:
Chiefly letters written by members of the related Turner, Baker, and Wheeler families, describing their activities as they moved southward and westward from Massachusetts and New York.
Creator:
Turner family.
Quanitities:
.8 cubic feet.
Language:
Collection material in English

COLLECTION DESCRIPTION

Chiefly letters written by members of the related Turner, Baker, and Wheeler families, describing their activities as they moved southward and westward from Massachusetts and New York. Includes letters from Otis and Oliver Baker, theology students at Yale University; Baker and Turner family letters from Lockport and Watertown, New York; letters from Susie Turner, student at Mount Holyoke College (Class of 1853) and teacher at Rockford Seminary; letters from Asa Turner, travelling salesman in the South and Midwest; correspondence between Avery Turner, Cornell University Class of 1873, and his friends at Quincy College and Kansas City Medical College, and later letters relating his work as an engineer for the Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe Railroad. Among the Wheeler papers are letters between relatives at an academy in New Bradford, Mass, and at Amherst College; letters from Marshall Wheeler relate to his activities as a clerk in Shelbyville, Kentucky, as a farm owner in Carthage, Ill., as the proprietor of a merchandising business at Quincy, Ill., and to his life as a merchant, plantation and slave owner, and stock and hog producer at Sabine and Cold Springs, Texas.

INFORMATION FOR USERS

Cite As:

Turner family papers, #689. Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library.

SUBJECTS

Names:
Baker, Otis.
Baker, Oliver.
Turner, Susie.
Turner, Asa.
Turner, Avery.
Wheeler, Marshall.
Baker family.
Wheeler family.
Yale University. Divinity School
Rockford Seminary
Mount Holyoke College. Class of 1853
Cornell University. Class of 1873
Quincy College
Kansas City Medical College
Amherst College
Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe Railroad Co
Places:
Shelbyville (Ky.) -- Commerce.
Subjects:
Traveling sales personnel.
Railroad engineers.
Swine -- Marketing -- Texas.
Agriculture -- Texas.
Merchandising -- Illinois.
Agriculture -- Illinois.
Families -- New York (State)
Families -- Massachusetts.
Slaveholders -- Texas.
Theological seminaries.
Women college students -- Massachusetts.
Migration, Internal -- United States.
Railroads.

CONTAINER LIST
Container
Description
Date
List of Otis M[arshall?] Wheeler letters in the Avery Turner Papers
Carthage, Illinois
Feb. 10, 1834
Scope and Contents
Employed by store
Carthage, Illinois
Mar. 1834
Carthage, Illinois
May 31, 1834
Carthage, Illinois
June 27, 1834
Carthage, Illinois
Jan. 18, 1835
Carthage, Illinois
May 1835
Carthage, Illinois
Oct. 15, 1839
Sabine Town, Texas
Jan. 25, 1844
Scope and Contents
Owns slaves
New Orleans
July 9, 1844
Scope and Contents
Slaves and goods
San Augustine
May 24, 1845
Scope and Contents
Introduction
San Augustine
Mar. 23, 1847
Scope and Contents
War and conditions
San Augustine
Nov. 28, 1847
Scope and Contents
Austin and crops
San Augustine
Sept. 6, 1848
Scope and Contents
Low cost of cotton
Paducah, Kentucky
Sept. 26, 1850
Scope and Contents
Trips
Cold Spring, Texas
May 24, 1855
Scope and Contents
Great drought in Texas
Cold Spring, Texas
Sept. 11, 1855
Cold Spring, Texas
May 5, 1856
Polk County, Texas
May 22, 1857
Polk County, Texas
July 29, 1857
Cold Spring, Texas
Sept. 29, 1859
Cold Spring, Texas
Dec. 16, 1859
Cold Spring, Texas
Jan. 4, 1860
Scope and Contents
Vaccination smallpox
Cold Spring, Texas
Feb. 19, 1860
Cold Spring, Texas
Mar. 10, 1860
Scope and Contents
Slavery abolition
Cold Spring, Texas
July 4, 1860
Cold Spring, Texas
Sept. 5, 1860
Scope and Contents
Insurrection re: slavery
Cold Spring, Texas
Jan. 20, 1861
Scope and Contents
Political cloud
Cold Spring, Texas
Mar. 11, 1861
Cold Spring, Texas
Sept. 1, 1871
Scope and Contents
After the war - free slaves