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
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
Turner family papers, #689. Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University
Library.
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
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Description
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Date
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List of Otis M[arshall?] Wheeler letters in the Avery Turner Papers
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Carthage, Illinois
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Feb. 10, 1834 | ||
Scope and Contents
Employed by store
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Carthage, Illinois
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Mar. 1834 | ||
Carthage, Illinois
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May 31, 1834 | ||
Carthage, Illinois
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June 27, 1834 | ||
Carthage, Illinois
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Jan. 18, 1835 | ||
Carthage, Illinois
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May 1835 | ||
Carthage, Illinois
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Oct. 15, 1839 | ||
Sabine Town, Texas
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Jan. 25, 1844 | ||
Scope and Contents
Owns slaves
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New Orleans
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July 9, 1844 | ||
Scope and Contents
Slaves and goods
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San Augustine
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May 24, 1845 | ||
Scope and Contents
Introduction
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San Augustine
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Mar. 23, 1847 | ||
Scope and Contents
War and conditions
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San Augustine
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Nov. 28, 1847 | ||
Scope and Contents
Austin and crops
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San Augustine
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Sept. 6, 1848 | ||
Scope and Contents
Low cost of cotton
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Paducah, Kentucky
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Sept. 26, 1850 | ||
Scope and Contents
Trips
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Cold Spring, Texas
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May 24, 1855 | ||
Scope and Contents
Great drought in Texas
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Cold Spring, Texas
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Sept. 11, 1855 | ||
Cold Spring, Texas
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May 5, 1856 | ||
Polk County, Texas
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May 22, 1857 | ||
Polk County, Texas
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July 29, 1857 | ||
Cold Spring, Texas
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Sept. 29, 1859 | ||
Cold Spring, Texas
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Dec. 16, 1859 | ||
Cold Spring, Texas
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Jan. 4, 1860 | ||
Scope and Contents
Vaccination smallpox
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Cold Spring, Texas
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Feb. 19, 1860 | ||
Cold Spring, Texas
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Mar. 10, 1860 | ||
Scope and Contents
Slavery abolition
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Cold Spring, Texas
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July 4, 1860 | ||
Cold Spring, Texas
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Sept. 5, 1860 | ||
Scope and Contents
Insurrection re: slavery
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Cold Spring, Texas
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Jan. 20, 1861 | ||
Scope and Contents
Political cloud
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Cold Spring, Texas
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Mar. 11, 1861 | ||
Cold Spring, Texas
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Sept. 1, 1871 | ||
Scope and Contents
After the war - free slaves
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