Box 2
Container
Contains 36 Results:
Land conveyance from Benjamin Bennett Briggs to Joseph Briggs, 1859-05-25
Item — Box: 2, Folder: 20
Scope and Content
From the Collection:
This small collection of family papers centers around Dr. Benjamin Bennett Briggs (1827-1893) whose 1849 diary chronicles his account of moving from Ohio to California by covered wagon. Briggs was the great-great-grandfather of the collection's donor, Dr. Chester Ward. In addition to the diary, the collection includes a small account book/diary from 1862--also kept by Briggs--as well as a number of letters to and from family members and photographs of family members across multiple...
Dates:
1859-05-25
Yuba Lodge, No. 39, F.&A.M. -- Benjamin Bennett Briggs membership certificate and receipt for dues, 1864 - 1865
File — Box: 2, Folder: 21
Scope and Content
From the Collection:
This small collection of family papers centers around Dr. Benjamin Bennett Briggs (1827-1893) whose 1849 diary chronicles his account of moving from Ohio to California by covered wagon. Briggs was the great-great-grandfather of the collection's donor, Dr. Chester Ward. In addition to the diary, the collection includes a small account book/diary from 1862--also kept by Briggs--as well as a number of letters to and from family members and photographs of family members across multiple...
Dates:
1864 - 1865
Programs of the Y.L.M.S. of the First Presbyterian Church, Wooster, Ohio, 1898
Item — Box: 2, Folder: 22
Scope and Content
From the Collection:
This small collection of family papers centers around Dr. Benjamin Bennett Briggs (1827-1893) whose 1849 diary chronicles his account of moving from Ohio to California by covered wagon. Briggs was the great-great-grandfather of the collection's donor, Dr. Chester Ward. In addition to the diary, the collection includes a small account book/diary from 1862--also kept by Briggs--as well as a number of letters to and from family members and photographs of family members across multiple...
Dates:
1898
The American Tract Society's Almanac, 1862
Item — Box: 2, Folder: 23
Scope and Content
From the Collection:
This small collection of family papers centers around Dr. Benjamin Bennett Briggs (1827-1893) whose 1849 diary chronicles his account of moving from Ohio to California by covered wagon. Briggs was the great-great-grandfather of the collection's donor, Dr. Chester Ward. In addition to the diary, the collection includes a small account book/diary from 1862--also kept by Briggs--as well as a number of letters to and from family members and photographs of family members across multiple...
Dates:
1862
Western Female Seminary, Oxford, Ohio -- annual catalogues, 1869 - 1870
File — Box: 2, Folder: 24
Scope and Content
From the Collection:
This small collection of family papers centers around Dr. Benjamin Bennett Briggs (1827-1893) whose 1849 diary chronicles his account of moving from Ohio to California by covered wagon. Briggs was the great-great-grandfather of the collection's donor, Dr. Chester Ward. In addition to the diary, the collection includes a small account book/diary from 1862--also kept by Briggs--as well as a number of letters to and from family members and photographs of family members across multiple...
Dates:
1869 - 1870
American Agriculturalist, 1860-08
Item — Box: 2, Folder: 25
Scope and Content
From the Collection:
This small collection of family papers centers around Dr. Benjamin Bennett Briggs (1827-1893) whose 1849 diary chronicles his account of moving from Ohio to California by covered wagon. Briggs was the great-great-grandfather of the collection's donor, Dr. Chester Ward. In addition to the diary, the collection includes a small account book/diary from 1862--also kept by Briggs--as well as a number of letters to and from family members and photographs of family members across multiple...
Dates:
1860-08
Samuel Lawrence Ward's New Testament Bible for/from Persia, 1890
Item — Box: 2, Folder: 26
Scope and Content
From the Collection:
This small collection of family papers centers around Dr. Benjamin Bennett Briggs (1827-1893) whose 1849 diary chronicles his account of moving from Ohio to California by covered wagon. Briggs was the great-great-grandfather of the collection's donor, Dr. Chester Ward. In addition to the diary, the collection includes a small account book/diary from 1862--also kept by Briggs--as well as a number of letters to and from family members and photographs of family members across multiple...
Dates:
1890
Dr. Briggs' Sanitarium. La Crescenta, circa 1890
File — Box: 2, Folder: 27
Scope and Contents
Pictured: Dr. Briggs "Terrace" Home and Dr Briggs large barn.
Dates:
circa 1890
Briggs, Abby Crane [three portraits with leather case], circa 1860
File — Box: 2, Folder: 28-29
Scope and Contents
Two copies of an individual portrait and one portrait of Abby with her daughter. Accompanied by decorated leather case that previously housed these portraits.
Dates:
circa 1860
Young, Flora Wade [portraits], circa 1890-circa 1940
File — Box: 2, Folder: 30
Scope and Contents
11 photographic prints. All individual portraits with labels identifying "Flora Wade Young" except for one, which pictures two young girls, labeled: "[illegible] at 1893 / Flora Edward Young." Includes one individual snapshot with label "Aunt Flora at Lake Erie College."
Dates:
circa 1890-circa 1940