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Livesay, E. Christopher

 Person

Found in 20 Collections and/or Records:

Asa Smith correspondence

 Collection
Identifier: Coll. 4226
Scope and Content note The collection consists primarily of correspondence, financial invoices and papers, and a handful of legal documents. Represented in this material are Smith’s various business, political, and community ventures, including records of his store stock, supplies required to care for his family and animals, building ventures, and timber and railroad papers. Efforts to build and maintain the community are evident in papers regarding the military road, the Mattawamkeag bridge, and the local...
Dates: 1832 - 1863

Bell family papers

 Collection
Identifier: Coll. 4250
Scope and Content note

Mostly probates and deeds, although there are also stock certificates, a pew deed, World War I records, and estate records.

Dates: 1862 - 1978

Benjamin Carson family correspondence

 Collection
Identifier: Coll. 4234
Scope and Content note

This collection consists entirely of letters written by Benjamin Carson to his wife and son while traveling for work. The letters share details of the towns he visited, the people he met, his sales (and lack thereof), and the weather. A desk calendar from a hotel frequented by Carson in Calais, Maine, is also included.

Dates: 1917 - 1934

Benjamin F. Cary correspondence

 Collection
Identifier: Coll. 4233
Scope and Content note The collection consists of letters to and from various members of the Benjamin F. Cary family, including between Cary and his wife Sophia during their courtship and marriage, and to their children. Envelopes for letters sent between 1861 and 1869 are included and labeled with numbers corresponding to the letters. Overall, the letters concern family matters and shed light on domestic life. Letters sent by Cary to his family during the Civil War years provide insight into local and national...
Dates: 1842 - 1886

E. Christopher Livesay papers

 Collection
Identifier: Coll. 4242
Scope and Content note This collection consists of correspondence, invoices and bills of sale, memos, financial records, reports, trip itineraries, publications, and photographs. The material details Livesay’s years as a collector of Maine-related manuscripts and printed matter, including prices, sources, and research. There are drafts of and records related to Livesay’s contributions to The Mirror of Maine: Four Centuries of Great Books published by the Baxter Society and the...
Dates: 1970 - 2018

Edward C. Owen and Dennison family correspondence

 Collection
Identifier: Coll. 4240
Scope and Content note

This collection consists entirely of correspondence from Edward C. Owen to members of the Dennison family. The letters detail his experiences living and working in the timber industry in northern California. Filed in each folder are the original envelopes, numbered to correspond to the letters.

Dates: 1862 - 1889

Hugh D. McLellan and Lothrop Lewis family papers

 Collection
Identifier: Coll. 4231
Scope and Content note The collection consists of personal correspondence, legal documents of various types and purposes, financial papers, receipts and accounts, notes, and essays. The material reflects the personal and professional lives of members of both the McLellan and Lewis families. The McLellan family material includes veteran bounty land papers filed by Hugh McLellan on behalf of military soldiers outlining claims to land in accordance with Congressional acts. Additionally, there are the collected papers...
Dates: 1800 - 1889

James Gower papers

 Collection
Identifier: Coll. 4239
Scope and Content note

Legal documents, correspondence, financial papers, and various writs, deeds, and agreements of James Gower, his family, and related to his various positions in local government. Included are several documents related to Bowdoin College land sales for which Gower played a role as agent, as well as versions of his own will and testament with details regarding his estate.

Dates: 1810 - 1856

John Harris Jr. papers

 Collection
Identifier: Coll. 4228
Scope and Content note The collection consists primarily of business and financial papers, including bills, receipts, inventories, promissory notes, and legal records. The business and financial papers reflect John Harris’ personal and professional activities, including the accounts of his store and his position as collector for the First Baptist Society. The collection also includes the records of legal disputes presented to Harris during his tenure as Justice of the Peace, as well as documents related to his...
Dates: 1811 - 1848

John Stuart Barrows Sr. papers

 Collection
Identifier: Coll. 4236
Scope and Content note

Primarily correspondence and legal and financial papers of John Stuart Barrows Sr., including drafts of love letters addressed to Ann Ayer Bradley. Barrow’s day and account books reflect both personal and town financial dealings, and his justice docket details issues heard as Justice of the Peace. Included in the family correspondence are letters to Georgianna Souther Barrows and Samuel Souther, her father, from various correspondents.

Dates: 1802 - 1898

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Letters 17
Financial records 11
Account books 4
Legal documents 4
Deeds 3
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Business records 2
Daybooks 2
Pews and pew rights 2
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Personal narratives 2
Abbot (Me.) 1
Agreements 1
Arctic regions -- Discovery and exploration 1
Aroostook War, 1839. 1
Book collectors -- Maine 1
Botanists -- Maine -- Wiscasset 1
Bounties, Military -- Maine 1
Business enterprises -- Maine -- Aroostook County 1
Business enterprises -- Maine -- Caratunk 1
Business enterprises -- Maine -- Houlton 1
Business enterprises -- Maine -- Mattawamkeag 1
Businessmen -- Maine -- Houlton 1
Businessmen -- Maine -- Caratunk 1
Butterflies -- Collectors and collecting -- Maine 1
Calendars 1
Cambridge (Mass.) 1
Clergy -- Maine -- Hebron 1
Collectors and collecting -- Maine 1
Congregational churches -- Vermont -- Lunenburg 1
Correctional personnel -- Maine -- Portland -- Correspondence 1
Cumberland County (Me.) 1
Dockets 1
East Sumner (Me.) -- Biography 1
Essays 1
Estate administration records 1
Estate records 1
Executors and administrators -- Maine -- Machias 1
Farmers -- Vermont -- Lunenburg 1
Fathers and daughters -- Maine 1
Fathers and sons -- Maine -- Wiscasset 1
Field notes 1
Fort Devens (Mass.) 1
Fort Jones (Calif.) 1
Gorham (Me.) -- History 1
Hebron (Me.) -- Church history 1
Hotelkeepers -- Maine -- Caratunk 1
Hotels -- Maine -- Calais 1
Hotels -- Maine -- Caratunk 1
Indigenous peoples -- North America -- Treaties 1
Insurance policies 1
Justices of the peace -- Maine -- Abbot 1
Justices of the peace -- Maine -- Franklin County 1
Justices of the peace -- Maine -- Fryeburg 1
Justices of the peace -- Maine -- Machias 1
Koblenz (Germany) 1
Land grants -- Maine 1
Land ownership -- Maine 1
Land surveys 1
Lawyers -- Maine -- Fryeburg 1
Leases 1
Legislators -- Maine 1
Legislators -- Maine -- Houlton 1
Lepidopterans -- Maine 1
Love-letters 1
Lumber trade -- California 1
Lumber trade -- Maine -- Aroostook County 1
Lumber trade -- Maine -- Trescott 1
Machias (Me.) -- History 1
Maine -- Politics and government -- 1865-1950 1
Maine -- Boundaries -- Massachusetts 1
Maps 1
Mattawamkeag (Me.) 1
Merchants -- Maine -- Trescott 1
Military discharge 1
Military passes 1
Mills and mill-work -- Maine -- Trescott 1
Mirror of Maine : one hundred distinguished books that reveal the history of the state and the life of its people 1
Norway (Me.) 1
Penobscot Nation 1
Phillips (Me.) 1
Photograph collections 1
Poetry 1
Politicians -- Maine -- Aroostook County 1
Portland (Me.) 1
Prisoners -- Maine -- Cumberland County 1
Prisoners -- Maine -- Portland 1
Probate records 1
Promissory notes 1
Real property -- Maine -- Sebago Lake 1
Real property -- Maine -- Standish 1
Real property -- Vermont -- Lunenburg 1
Registers of births, etc. -- Maine -- Machias 1
Sales personnel -- Maine -- Houlton 1
Scientific expeditions -- Arctic Ocean 1
Selling -- Shoes -- Maine 1
Ship's papers 1
Shipbuilding -- Maine -- Brunswick 1
Shipbuilding -- Maine -- Hallowell 1
Speeches, addresses, etc. 1
Sutlers -- Maine 1
Tithes 1
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