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Box 31

 Container

Contains 1 Result:

Founding of Kane and our family life there, volume I, 1870

 Item — Box: 31, Folder: 5
Identifier: Vault MSS 792 Series 6 Sub-Series 4 Sub-Series 2 Item 1
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...
Dates: Majority of material found in 1870