Scope and Contents Materials include a manuscript written by Elizabeth Wood Kane, possibly a draft of her autobiography, written in 1869. The manuscript has many edits and corrections, some made by Kane's husband Thomas L. Kane. It provides information about settling in northwest Pennsylvania, founding the town of Kane, the fire that burned down their lumber mill, the first settlers in Kane, and a visit in their town from a Native American named Sawlog. Elizabeth also questions if it is right for women to stay...

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Materials include a sketch titled "Sketch prepared for the Commissioners of Sergeant Township" and completed in colored inks. It illustrates plans for building a new road to Cumminsville and Sheffield from Kane, Pennsylvannia, with some explanatory notes. There is no date on item nor indication of its creator. Date of production not identified.

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Materials include a newspaper clipping titled "Badly Frozen", which gives the account of Roswell and Samuel Sartwell, brothers who discovered and saved a man who had nearly frozen to death. Found inside the Elizabeth Wood Kane manuscript. Date of production not identified.

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Materials include an original draft of a manuscript written by Elizabeth Wood Kane, and published in the Erie newspaper. It includes descriptions of the constructions of the Kane mansion, the hotel, and the beauty of the surrounding land. No date on item. Dated approximately 1866.

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Materials include chapter two of an original draft of a manuscript by Elizabeth Wood Kane titled "Upland". It is written as a letter and is about going to Williamsville. Dated 1856.

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Materials include a manuscript written by Elizabeth Wood Kane giving a brief history of the Kane family's settlement in McKean County, Pennsylvania. Date of production not identified.

Scope and Contents Materials include a typescript copy of the original manuscript titled "Founding of Kane and Our Family Life There, Volume I" and written by Elizabeth Wood Kane. The history begins in the summer of 1864, when the family left Philadelphia to settle in McKean County. Kane gives a detailed account of her family's life through June 20, 1865. She writes about the burning of their lumber mill, boarding in Marvin Valley, moving in to their barn waiting for their home to be finished, building the...

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Materials include a typescript copy of Elizabeth Wood Kane's autobiography, "The Story of the Mother of the Regiment". It focuses on on Elizabeth's life during the Utah War and the Civil War. She also writes about the founding of Kane, Pennsylvania and about her husband, Thomas L. Kane, going to Utah in 1857 and fighting in the Civil War. There are some marginal notes and underlining by Elizabeth's son, Elisha Kent Kane. Dated 1869.

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Contains manuscripts, drafts, and source materials related to Kane's history of Kane, Pennsylvania. Includes information on the Kane family's role in settlement and autobiographical writings. Materials date from between approximately 1866 and 1896.