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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