John P. Reynolds journal 1861

Contents List

   Container / Location    Title

Correspondence [series]:
For an index of correspondents, see "Additional Descriptive Data" below.

Box 1
Townshend Family Correspondence [subseries]:

Scope note: The Townshend Family subseries, spanning approximately 3 linear feet, is comprised of all letters to and from the members of the Townshend family, including spouses and in-laws, such as the Woods, the Wings, and the Boyntons. The correspondence of Margaret Wing Dodge, granddaughter of Norton S. Townshend, is part of the Townshend Family subseries. "Additional Descriptive Data" contains an index of major correspondents in each subseries. Arranged chronologically, the series sheds light on Norton Strange Townshend’s political, educational, and agricultural activities, as well as his family and personal life. The earliest letters are between family members in Ohio and Northamptonshire and relate family news, religion, and daily life. Correspondence is relatively frequent during1839-1841, when Norton studied medicine in New York City and Europe, and wrote to his parents describing visits to European hospitals, impressions of Paris and London, and thoughts on his career. Joel and Rebecca’s correspondence with their son is filled with religious and philosophical references and advice. Between 1848 and 1854 the period during which Townshend served in the Ohio General Assembly (1848-1849), the U.S. House of Representatives (1851-53), and the Ohio State Senate (1854-55), a great deal of incoming political correspondence addresses such issues as the "balance of power" deadlock upon which Townshend capitalized in Ohio, the debates over the boundaries of slavery, opinion on Ohio’s Black Laws, and other political matters. Also important are Salmon P. Chase’s letters to Townshend, which shed light on their political alliance and the slavery debate in the U.S. Senate. During Norton Strange Townshend’s service as a medical inspector in the Civil War, 1863-1865 he and his wife Margaret exchanged over 100 letters on topics such as Townshend’s work and travels, family news, and farm matters. Townshend also sometimes referenced Margaret’s sister and her husband, Miriam and Thomas Easterly, who were living in St. Louis and struggling financially during the time that Townshend was stationed there. During this period, he also corresponded frequently with his son James, particularly concerning James’ education and thoughts on church and religion. Three letters from his younger children, Arthur Bailey and Mary, also survived. In one letter, dated April 17, 1865, 10-year old Arthur reacts to the death of Lincoln and the attempted assassination of William H. Seward. Family correspondence trails off considerably after the war, although in the mid 1880s Townshend and James exchange a series of letters concerning James’ declining health from tuberculosis.

Margaret Wing’s correspondence with her mother, Alice (Townshend) Wing is included in the Townshend family correspondence. Several dozen of Margaret’s letters were written in 1909 during a tour of Europe. She described sightseeing, visiting art museums, and traveling by rail. Many of the 20th century letters in this subseries are from Margaret’s friend from Vassar College, Elizabeth Schneider, a ghostwriter living in Boston. Schneider was particularly fond of sharing her opinions on books and plays. Other 20th-century letters are mainly to and from Townshend’s children and grandchildren and shed some light on their relationships, travels, and careers.

Box 1
19 July 1827-5 December 1864 (44 folders)

Box 2
7 December 1864-16 July 1873 (32 folders)

Box 3
28 July 1873-11 December 1886 (43 folders)

Box 4
13 December 1886-30 July 1896 (29 folders)

Box 5
18 February 1897-27 June 1934 (29 folders)

Box 6
8 August 1934-1978 (17 folders)

Undated, c. 1840s-1950s (9 folders)

Box 6
Dodge Family Correspondence [subseries]:

Scope note: The Dodge Family subseries contains correspondence to and from the members of the Dodge family and ranges from 1838-1989 with the bulk of materials from the early 20th century. The earliest letters were written among the children of Thomas Dodge, a farmer in Massena, New York. Many were penned by Thomas Dodge, Jr., who moved to Indiana and described some difficulties of living on the frontier, such as finding a teacher for the schoolhouse and making ends meet. Later letters shed light on the courtship of Isabella Donaghue, who married Orange Dodge, and on the inter-faith marriage between Fletcher Dodge and his wife, Ray Cohen. Fletcher Dodge’s letters in particular are frank and very interesting, describing ideas about work, monogamy, his family, fraternities, and many other topics.

20 June 1836-26 April 1881 (15 folders)

Box 7
18 December 1881-13 February 1913 (43 folders)

Box 8
23 February 1913-14 November 1946 (40 folders)

Box 9
15 November 1946-13 October 1989 (40 folders)

Undated, c. 1840s-1910s (6 folders)

Box 10
Undated, c. 1910s-1970s (6 folders)

Box 10
Joel Townshend Papers, 1811-c. 1945 [series]:

Scope note: The Joel Townshend (father of Norton Townshend) series is relatively small, extending less than half a linear foot. It contains Townshend’s writings (mainly on religious topics), some biographical information compiled by family members, and Townshend’s legal and financial papers, which record the material existence of the family, both in Clay Coton, Northamptonshire, and Avon, Ohio. Of particular note among his legal papers is an 1811 document, "Request by the Poor Inhabitants of Clay Coton," apparently penned by Joel and concerning the use of commons by the poor.

Writings [subseries]: (3 folders)

Biographical information [subseries]:

"Joel Townshend Biography" by H. Percy Boynton

Book List

Legal papers, 1811-1858 [subseries]: (3 folders)
1810 land indenture located in oversize

Financial papers [subseries]:

[n.d.] (1 folder)

Receipt book, 1814-1830

Receipt book, 1818-1829

Ledger, 1831-1857

Box 10
Norton Strange Townshend Papers [series]:

Diaries and Notebooks, c. 1825-1880 [subseries]:

Scope note: The diaries and notebooks series is comprised 24 items, spanning 1825 to the 1880s. Townshend’s two school notebooks document his education at Bitteswell School in England, and are interesting in light of his strong emphasis on practical education later in life. They are also the only manuscript items in the collection representing Townshend’s childhood. The bulk of the subseries consists of Townshend’s diaries, which for the most part contain fairly short, terse entries describing his work, weather, and travel. The exception is his 1848-1853 "Memoranda Book," which is made up of long and fascinating entries on such topics as skepticism of Spiritualists, the funeral of Henry Clay, meeting and befriending the poet Grace Greeenwood, and other subjects. The diaries Townshend kept during the Civil War sometimes mention Thomas and Miriam Easterly, whom Townshend visited while stationed in St. Louis. Townshend also kept notebooks based on topics, and these are placed at the end of the series, and concern lessons that Townshend taught as a Sunday School teacher and thoughts on agricultural and veterinary topics.

School notebook, 1825

School notebook, 1828

Box 11
"Memoranda Book", 1848-1853

Diary, 1849

Diary, 1857

Diary, 1858

Diary, 1859

Diary, 1860

Diary, 1861

Diary, 1862

Diary, 1863

Diary, 1864

Diary, 1865

Diary, 1866

Diary, 1867

Box 12
Diary, 1868

Diary, 1869

Diary, 1870

Diary, 1871

Diary, 1875

Antislavery and temperance notebook, 1840

Sketches of Bible class lessons, 1867-1868

Composition book, [n.d.], c. 1870s-1880s

Agricultural and veterinary notes, 1879

Box 12
Manuscript Writings and Lectures [subseries]:

Scope note: Townshend’s writings are divided into manuscripts and printed materials. The manuscripts, some of which are fragmentary, are arranged by topic, as many of them lack titles. Townshend had a tendency to write using bullet points, and to rework topics a number of times; the manuscripts, which span roughly1840 to 1890 reflect this. Townshend’s early writings, from the 1840s and 1850s focus especially on the topics of antislavery and temperance, and some appear to be outlines of lectures given throughout northern Ohio. After the Civil War, his focus shifts to agricultural and veterinary matters, as well as to religion and religious education, which he views with the eye of a devout, but skeptical, reformer. He also writes on a number of sociological topics, such as the role of women in society and strategies for improving the life of the farmer.

Abolition (7 folders)

Box 13
African Americans

Agricultural Societies

General (3 folders)

Grange

Ohio State Board of Agriculture (3 folders)

Agriculture (31 folders)

Box 14
Agriculture, cont’d (6 folders)

Archaeology (2 folders)

Autobiographical (6 folders)

Biographies

Chase, Salmon P. (3 folders)

Cremieux, Adolphe

Griffing, Charles S.S.

Kirtland, Jared P.

Westwater, James

Other

Botany (6 folders)

Civil War

Education (3 folders)

Box 15
Education, cont’d (5 folders)

Europe

Farmers and Farm Life

General (10 folders)

Farm as an Education (3 folders)

Farmer’s Library

Lights and Shades of Farm Life

Farmers’ Needs

History (2 folders)

Horses

Illustrations

Liberty Party (2 folders)

Medicine (6 folders)

Box 16
Ohio Agricultural and Mechanical College/Ohio State University (9 folders)

Ohio Asylum for the Education of Idiotic and Imbecile Youth (3 folders)

Oration/Public Speaking (2 folders)

Philosophy (4 folders)

Politics (5 folders)

Religion (14 folders)

Box 17
Republican Party (2 folders)

Science (5 folders)

Temperance (3 folders)

Veterinary Science (14 folders)

Women

Miscellaneous (8 folders)

Box 17
Published Writings, 1847-1888 [subseries]:

Scope note: Townshend’s published writings are arranged alphabetically by title or first line and include several printed speeches he gave as a Congressman; a number of articles on agriculture and veterinary science, written for newspapers in the 1880s and several articles for the journal Farm and Fireside. Also of note is his 1847 article, "Committee on Swine," which criticizes racism through an extended livestock metaphor, and "Ohio Constitutional Convention, Remarks of Mr. Townshend," which also addresses and criticizes racial inequality.

"A Talk about Fungi" ( 1877)

"Address of the Lorain County Liberty Convention" ( 1841)

"Agricultural Meeting" [n.d.]

"Agricultural Meeting at Lansing" ( 1881)

"Agriculture, as an Art and as a Science" ( 1872)

Box 18
"Agriculture of Lorain County" ( 1867)

"An Experiment in Pig Feeding" ( 1887)

"Beef and Pork Production" ( 1883)

"Canadian Reciprocity" ( 1853)

"Columbus Horticultural Society Address" ( 1886)

"Committee on Swine" ( 1847)

"Dairying" ( 1883)

"Diseases of Sheep" ( 1873)

"Drainage for Health and for Profit" ( 1883)

"First Lessons in Veterinary Surgery" ( 1883)

"Grain Growing" ( 1883)

"Hog Cholera" ( 1883)

"Influence of Through Draining on Climate" ( 1886)

"Mr. President and Gentlemen of the State Board…" [n.d.]

"Ohio Constitutional Convention. Remarks of Mr. Townshend" ( 1851)

"Ohio State University" ( 1887)

"Reading for the People--Book Clubs" [n.d.] (4 folders of duplicates)

"Reply to Communication of Mast, Crowell & Kirkpatrick, Publishers of the Farm and Fireside" (7 folders of duplicates)

Box 19
"Salmon P. Chase" 1887 (4 folders of duplicates)

"Science and Agriculture" ( 1872)

"The ABC of Veterinary Science" ( 1883)

"The Coming Fence" ( 1883)

"The Farm as an Educator" [n.d.]

"The Farmer’s Food and Drink" ( 1883)

"The Farmer’s Home" ( 1883)

"The Farmer’s Library" ( 1883)

"The Farmer’s Mission" ( 1854)

"The Ohio Agricultural and Mechanical College versus the Ohio State Grange" ( 1877)

"The Present Position of the Democratic Party" ( 1852)

The Secrets of Progressive Agriculture, 1888, a Farm and Fireside compilation which includes the following essays by Townshend: "Progress of Agriculture in Ohio," "Ohio Soils and Climate," "Farm Products of Ohio," "Farming as an Occupation," "Farm Labor," "Experiments--What They Have Proved," "The Farmer’s Helps and Hindrances," "Education on the Farm," "Stock Feeding," "Veterinary Science--Its History and Value," "Disease," "Principles of Treatment," "Horses and Their Diseases," "Cattle and Their Diseases," "Some Diseases of Sheep," "Some Diseases of Swine," "Stock Breeding," "Poultry and Their Diseases", "Legislation in Regard to Contagious Diseases"

"The Social Life of Farmers" ( 1883)

"The Time for Cutting Wheat" [n.d.]

"The Union of the Democracy--The Resolutions of ‘98" ( 1852)

"To Prevent Misunderstanding or Misrepresentation…" ( 1848)

"Wheat" ( 1879)

"When to Cut Wheat" ( 1878)

"Who Are Successful Farmers?" ( 1875)

"Wool and Mutton" ( 1883)

Box 19
Biographical Information and Articles, 1850s-1994 [subseries]:

Scope note: This subseries consists of clippings and articles, both contemporary and posthumous, containing biographical information on Norton Strange Townshend. Materials are arranged chronologically and shed light on the basic facts of Townshend’s life, as well as on his involvement in education, the suffrage movement in Ohio, and other reform pursuits. Of particular interest to researchers are the sketches written by family members (including Margaret Bailey Townshend, Harriet N. Townshend, and H. Percy Boynton), which reveal Townshend more intimately through recollections and impressions. Also of note are five folders of newspaper obituaries located at the end of the subseries.

"The Convention and Its Men" ( 1850)

Box 20
Clippings, c. 1850s-1870s

Clippings, c. 1870s-1880s (2 folders)

Clippings, c. 1880s (2 folders)

Clippings, c. 1890s (2 folders)

"Sketch of Professor N.S. Townshend" (3 folders of duplicates)

"Life of Dr. N.S. Townshend" ( 1894)

"Norton S. Townshend" by Margaret Bailey Townshend, Townshend’s wife ( 1898)

"A Brief History" ( 1899)

"Judge Stevens’ Address" ( 1906)

"Norton Strange Townshend" by Harriet Norton Townshend, Townshend’s daughter ( 1907)

"Commencement at Ohio State University" ( 1909)

"Little Stories of the Woman Suffrage Movement in Ohio" ( 1918)

"The First Faculty" by Thomas Mendenhall ( 1920)

"A Famous Immigrant" by Sylvia Boynton ( 1931)

"In Recording the English Boyhood…" by H. Percy Boynton, Townshend’s grandson ( 1940)

"To Fulfill a Wish Often Expressed" by H. Percy Boynton ( 1940)

"A Doctor of the Old School" by George C. Jameson ( 1942)

"History of Oberlin College (excerpt)" by Robert Samuel Fletcher( 1943)

"An Early American Crusader" by John F. Cunningham ( 1944)

"Norton Strange Townshend--Physician, Legislator, ‘Father of American Agricultural Education’" by Linden F. Edwards ( 1948)

"Notes on the Medical Background and Experiences of Dr. Norton Strange Townshend" by H. Percy Boynton ( 1948)

"Ohio Agricultural Hall of Fame" ( 1968)

"OSU’s ‘Little House’" ( 1969)

Box 21
"Centennial Edition" ( 1970)

"Townshend Haunts Campus" ( 1975)

"U-Hall Rededication" ( 1975)

"A Union Army Medical Inspector: Norton Townshend" by Robert McCormick ( 1994)

"Norton S. Townshend: A Reformer for All Seasons" by Frederick J. Blue and Robert McCormick ( 1994)

"Ohio A&M: Norton Townshend’s Last Crusade" ( 1994)

"Garments from Dr. Norton Strange Townshend’s Early Life" ( 2005)

Obituaries (5 folders)

Box 21
Topical Files, c. 1840-1900 [subseries]:

Scope note: The topical files are comprised of materials collected on a variety of subjects by Norton Strange Townshend. Topics are arranged alphabetically. Especially voluminous are his files on the Civil War, which include inspection forms of prisons filled out by Townshend, circular letters to medical inspectors and surgeons, instructions and orders, and official correspondence. Also of interest are the "Fliers for Lectures," which document some of the venues and topics of Townshend’s many public speeches, and his files on "Abolition," "Liberty Party," and "Republican Party," which contain printed matter relating to these topics, revealing to some extent the day-to-day functioning of local antislavery organizations. Townshend’s file on the "Ohio State Asylum for the Education of Idiotic and Imbecile Youth" contains information on the institution’s founding, an application for admission, ephemera, and a set of meeting minutes for a policy meeting in which Townshend participated. Files on Ohio Agricultural & Mechanical College/Ohio State University and Ohio State Agricultural Experiment Station document the early history, policies, and actions of these institutions.

Abolition, 1840s-1850s

Advertisements, includes advertisement for Thomas Easterly’s studio, 1850s-1890s (2 folders)

Agriculture, c. 1860s-1880s (4 folders)

Centennial Board of Finance, 1876

Chase, Salmon P. (includes Chase’s 1847 lecture, "Emancipation in the British West Indies")

Civil War, 1863-1866

Circular letters (13 folders)

Box 22
Official correspondence (7 folders)

Orders and instructions (6 folders)

Reports (3 folders)

Miscellaneous (includes partially printed card, permitting Norton Townshend to remain in St. Louis, Missouri, February 1864) (2 folders)

Columbus Horticultural Society

Education

General, c. 1820-1868

Course Admission Tickets, 1839-1840 (2 folders)

Freedmen’s Aid Commissions, c. 1865-1870

Kirtland, Jared and Kirtland Society, 1845, 1877 (2 folders)

Lecture Fliers

1840-1881

1881

1881-1883

1883-1886

1886-1888, [n.d.]

Medicine, 1863-1865

Oberlin College, 1850

Ohio Agricultural College, 1854-1855 (2 folders)

Box 23
Ohio Agricultural College, cont’d (1 folder)

Ohio Agricultural Experiment Station, 1880-1882

Ohio Agricultural and Mechanical College/Ohio State University, 1877-1883 (3 folders)

Ohio State Asylum for the Education of Idiotic and Imbecile Youth, 1857-c. 1860s (2 folders)

Poetry, [n.d.]

Politics

General, c. 1840-1851 (2 folders)

Bills, 1862

State Archaeological Association of Ohio, 1875-1885 (3 folders)

Student Writings, c. 1880s (4 folders)

Temperance, [n.d.]

Townshend Hall, 1890s (5 folders)

Miscellany, c. 1850s-1880s

Box 24
Clippings, 1840s-1890s [subseries]:

Scope note: This subseries is comprised of newspaper clippings saved by Townshend, both in scrapbooks and loose. The bound clippings are from an earlier period and focus especially on politics, while the loose clippings are mostly concerned with agricultural topics. Some are the lectures of Townshend’s friends and colleagues printed in newspapers.

Box 24
Newspaper scrapbook, 1844

Newspaper scrapbook, 1840s-1880s

Loose clippings (6 folders)

Box 25
Loose clippings, cont’d (7 folders)

Legal papers and calling cards, 1840-1884 [subseries]:

Calling and business cards (3 folders)

Certificates, (3 folders)    [Note: American Bible Society certificates and diplomas located in Oversize.]

Land Indentures

1834-1850

1850-1856

1858-1860

1863-1871    [Note: 1857 land indenture located in Oversize]

Petitions, 1849-1869

Will, 1884

Miscellaneous    [Note: includes Townshend's 1840 passport]

Financial papers [subseries]:

Account book, 1840s

Box 26
Ledger, 1850s

Financial records

1846-1859

1875-1877

1877-1878

1882-1884

1888-1893

Margaret Bailey Townshend Papers [series]:

Diaries [subseries]:

Scope note: Margaret Bailey Townshend’s diaries contain fairly long entries describing daily events. Her 1888-1889 diary records her reactions to the death of her stepson, James, and her sister, Miriam.

[n.d.], mostly blank

1883

1888-1889

Autobiographical writings [subseries]:

Scope note: The most significant item in this small subseries is a 30-page autobiographical sketch entitled "Genealogy," in which Margaret describes being orphaned at 12, securing an education despite many obstacles, her teaching career, the marriage proposals that she rejected, and meeting Norton Strange Townshend.

1894-1908 (1 folders)

Education and teaching career [subseries]:

Scope note: This subseries is comprised of a few fliers, arranged by date, for schools at which Margaret taught, including the Monticello Female Seminary.

1845-1888

Obituaries [subseries]:

Clippings [subseries]:

Legal papers, 1845-1906 [subseries]:

1845-1899

1900-1906

Certificates
Certicates are located in Oversize

Box 27
Financial papers [subseries]:

Bound items, 1894-1912 (5 folders)

Records and financial correspondence, 22 July 1890-1 June 1905 (21 folders)

Box 28
Records and financial correspondence, 2 June 1905-13 June 1912 (18 folders)

Other Townshend Family Members Papers [series]:

Writings, 1833-1958 [subseries]:

James B. Wood (father of Harriet Wood Townshend) [subseries]:

"My Own Life," 1833

"My Own Life" typescript, bound with "Townshends and Woods in Avon" by H. Percy Boynton

Harriet Wood Townshend [subseries]:

"Reflections on the Immortality of the Soul" [n.d.]

James H. Townshend [subseries]:

"High and Low Milllings in the Manufacture of Flour," c. 1875

Mary Townshend Boynton [subseries]:

"Architecture: "Saxon, Norman and Early English," 1893

"At John Lateran" [n.d.]

"Books Which Have Wrought Reforms" [n.d.]

"Critical Period of American History, The" [n.d.]

"Crusades from a Saracen Standpoint, The" 1890

"English Lake School, The" [n.d.]

"Excursions of an Evolutionist by John Fiske" [n.d.]

"Gossip about the Royal Family" [n.d.]

"Goths and the Moorish Conquest, The" 1898

"'In Memoriam' is a poem both…" [n.d.]

"Italian Painting from 1400 to 1650" [n.d.]

"Last Days of Pheidias" [n.d.]

"Rise and Growth of Italian Republics," 1886

Box 29
"Studies fromThe Prologue " [n.d.]

"Study of Childhood, A" [n.d.]

"Versailles" [n.d.]

Harriet N. Townshend [subseries]: (1 folder)

Charles M. Wing, husband of Alice Townshend Wing diary, 1876 [subseries]:

Margaret Wing Dodge [subseries]:

Bound items, 1902-1967 (2 folders)

Loose items, 1897-1923

Loose items, 1927-1958

Box 30
Biographical Information, 1854-1950 [subseries]:

Scope note: This subseries contains biographical information, almost entirely clippings, concerning various members of the Townshend family. The subseries is arranged by person, from earliest to latest born, and includes obituaries and articles on members of the Townshend family. Harriet N. Townshend, who was the last member of the first class of Ohio State University, receives particular attention.

Rebecca (Norton) Townshend, mother of Norton Strange Townshend

Lucius B. Wing, father-in-law of Alice Townshend Wing

Harriet Wood Townshend, first wife of Norton Townshend

Mary Townsend Boynton, daughter of Norton and Harriet Townshend

Arthur B. Townshend, son of Norton and Margaret Townshend

Harriet N. Townshend, daughter of Norton and Margaret Townshend (3 folders)

Charles M. Wing, husband of Alice Townshend Wing

Alice Townshend Wing, daughter of Norton and Margaret Townshend (2 folders)

Shirley Wing, son of Alice Townshend Wing

Legal papers [subseries]:

1895-1960

Financial papers, 1900-1921 [subseries]:

Records (9 folders)

Miscellaneous [subseries]:

[n.d.] (2 folders)

Box 31
Dodge Family Papers [series]:

Writings, 1839-1957 [subseries]:

Scope note: These writings, both published and unpublished, are on a variety of topics: religious, personal, and professional. They are arranged by author in order of earliest to latest birth date. Lydia Sayer Hasbrouck, the famous dress reformer and publisher ofSybil, was a family friend of the Dodges, and a poem she gave to them is included.

Levi R. Dodge [subseries]:

Religious testimony, 1839

Lydia Hasbrouck, friend of Orange W. Dodge [subseries]:

"The First Eclogue," 1885

(Florence) Isabella Donaghue Dodge [subseries]:

School notebook, c. 1870

"Reading," c. 1870

"Prayer Rock" [n.d.]

"The Advantage of Good Thoughts" [n.d.]

"The Mountains Were Brought Near Us…" [n.d.]

"The Mountains Were Brought Near Us…", typescript

"My Visit to Iowa" [n.d.]

"My Visit to Iowa", typescript

"In the Early Days…" [n.d.]

Miscellaneous

Homer L. Dodge [subseries]:

"Challenges of the Atomic Age" ( 1945)

"Running the Big Sault in an Open Canoe" ( 1957)

Biographical information [subseries]:

Scope note: This subseries contains biographical information on the Dodges, including related lines, such as the Donaghues and the Bakers. The items range from the late 19th to mid-20th century.

Obituaries (5 folders)

Clippings (3 folders)

Calling cards and Legal papers

Calling and business cards (1 folder)

Dodge legal papers [subseries]:

Scope note: The Dodge legal papers subseries is organized chronologically and contains land indentures and agreements, mainly between the members of the Dodge family.

8 May 1839-26 February 1841

28 September 1841-4 May 1845

3 September 1846-22 March 1862

2 July 1889-13 November 1901

5 May 1923-6 August 1935

31 December 1936-15 November 1937

Box 32
[n.d.]

Certificates [subseries]:
Certificates located in Oversize

Dodge financial papers [subseries]:

Scope note: The Dodge financial papers are separated into correspondence (which mainly concerns the estate of F. Isabella Donaghue Dodge), and records, which date back considerably further and document the sales of a store run by Thomas Dodge in Massena, NY during the mid-19th century, as well as the financial transactions of later Dodge family members.

Correspondence [subseries]:

24 September 1934-17 December 1936

7 January 1937-20 March 1937

24 March-3 May 1937

24 May-25 October 1937

28 October-13 December 1937

20 December 1937-21 February 1938

8 March-12 April 1938

29 April-14 December 1938

19 December 1938-11 January 1939

19 January-28 November 1939

Records [subseries]:

1839-1841

1842-1844

1844-1846

1847-1850

1851-1859

1859-1862

1862-1863

1863-1865

1865-1868

1868-1870

1871-1873

1873-1874

1874-1876

1876-1880

1880-1882

1882-1884

1884-1886

1887-1889

1889

1889-1891

1891-1893

1893-1894

1894-1895

1896-1898

1898-1909

1910-1922

1923-1933

Box 33
1933

1936-1970

[n.d.]

Clippings [subseries]: (2 folders)

Topical Files, c. 1890s-1970s [subseries]:

Scope note: This subseries contains various items collected by the Dodges, mainly during the 20th century. The topical files on the Alpha Club and the Mary D. Bean Library show Isabella Donaghue Dodge’s civic and intellectual engagement with the community. The files also reflect the Dodges’ interest in travel, canoeing, and the outdoors.

Advertisements (2 folders)

Alpha Club (4 folders)

Appalachian Trail (2 folders)

Cosmos Club

Exercise

Holiday cards (3 folders)

Lane Artists Series

Letterhead

Mary D. Bean Library (2 folders)

Ogdensburg Free Academy (2 folders)

Physics (2 folders)

Potsdam Normal School

Railroad poster

Retirement guides

St. Lawrence University

Vacations & travel ephemera (4 folders)

Box 34
Vacations & travel ephemera (4 folders)

Vassar College

Vermont (4 folders)

Miscellaneous

Periodicals [subseries]:

American Canals (Febrary 1982; May 1982)

American White Water (Spring 1959)

Box 35
Appalachia (June 1968)

Canadian Magazine, The (March 1899)

Canoe (March 1982)

Consumers’ Research Bulletin (July 1944; May 1945; July 1945)

Down River (December 1975)

Journal of Engineering Education, The (April 1955)

Living Wilderness (July 1940; Summer 1953) Winter-Spring 1958)

Genealogical Research [series]:

Genealogical correspondence [subseries]:

Scope note: Much of the family history of the Townshend and Dodge families was pieced together through letters written among family members. Some of the correspondence pertains to a possible link between the Townshends and the Townshends of Raynham Hall.

25 April 1899-7 July 1929

17 January 1932-4 October 1934

5 October 1934-27 January 1937

16 August 1940-1 November 1945

5 November 1945-28 May 1947

3 July 1947-11 February 1948

4-31 March 1948

31 March-16 April 1948

4 August-7 September 1948

7-8 September 1948

10 September 1948-3 January 1949

7 January 1949-8 March 1950

9 November 1951-4 May 1956

4 May 1956-30 January 1960

24 March 1960-2 February 1966

8 March 1967-2 March 1969

2 March-25 December 1969

2 February-3 October 1970

25 January 1971-3 December 1973

27 December 1973-23 October 1976

12 June-25 September 1980

12 October 1980-14 October 1983

28 November 1983-27 May 1985

29 June 1985-24 September 1990

8 May 1991-13 September 1995

[n.d.]

Genealogical Information [subseries]:

Scope note: The genealogical information subseries is arranged primarily by family. It contains family trees, essays, and materials collected about each family’s history, including commercially produced family histories for some of the lines. The Bailey line files contain the family history of Norton Townshend’s second wife, Margaret Bailey. Information on the Wing line relates to ancestors of Charles Wing, husband of Townshend’s daughter, Alice. The Wood line is comprised of information on the family of Townshend’s first wife, Harriet. The general genealogy information file is comprised of tips on genealogical research and tools useful to the genealogist, collected by the avid genealogists of the Townshend and Dodge families. Research by Alice Dodge Wallace, great-granddaughter of Norton Townshend, includes a number of note-cards with information on her ancestors and family members. Research by Wallace’s research consultant, Dr. M. Susan Barger is contained in a 450-page document which illuminates in great detail the many lines of the Townshend, Dodge, Wing, Hyde, and related families.

Townshend line (2 folders)

Box 36
Townshend line (4 folders)

Bailey line (2 folders)

Easterly line

Wing line (4 folders)

Wood line (3 folders)

Dodge line (8 folders)

Box 37
Dodge line, (8 folders)
Dodge genealogy book is located in Oversize

Hyde line (5 folders)

Donaghue line

General genealogy information (3 folders)

Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR) and Sons of the American Revolution (SAR) materials
DAR and SAR certificates are located in Oversize

Research by Alice Dodge Wallace (5 folders)

Box 38
Research by Dr. M. Susan Barger (4 folders)

Collection-related materials [series]:

General (3 folders)

Box 39
General (4 folders)

Articles (7 folders)

Books [series]:
Most books have been transferred to the Clements Library's Book Division and are housed there. Search for "M-3437" in the University of Michigan MIRLYN catalog to locate them.

Sermons on Various Subjects by the Late Rev. Thomas Strange, Kilsby, Northamptonshire, with Some Memoirs of His Life. J.W. Morris: Dunstable, 1807.

Townsend, Malcolm. The Townsend's. New York: Mooney & Co. Press, 1895.

Bensusan, S.L. Holbein; Illustrated with Eight Reproductions in Colour. London: T.C. & E.C. Jack, [1909?].

McCormick, Robert W. Norton S. Townshend, M.D. Antislavery Politician and Agricultural Educator. Self-published: Worthington, Ohio, 1988.

Box 40
Townshend Family Bible (with notes on births, deaths and marriages)

Box 41
Clippings, notes and ephemera removed from books (2 folders)

Miscellaneous [series]:

Envelopes (3 folders)

Blank letterhead (2 folders)

Other (3 folders)

Transcript book, with Percy Boynton’s transcriptions of Harriet Wood Townshend’s letters to her sister, Sara Wood Keffer

Visual materials [series]:
The following items are housed in the Graphics Division: The "Cahill Collection," Easterly's Niagara Views, and two c. 1810 "Cries of London" prints (gingerbread seller, woven mat seller).

The following four maps have been transferred to the Map Division:

"The wonderground map of London Town" (1914), "Map of the United States to illustrate Olney's School Geography" (c. 1840), "Ornamental map of the United States and Mexico" (1848), "Perrine's new military map illustrating the seat of war" (1862).

"Cahill Collection" [subseries]:

Scope note: These daguerreotypes and ambrotypes were accessioned as a set and are thought to have been the collection of (Sarah) Melinda Bailey Cahill and the Cahill family. Melinda was the sister of Margaret Bailey Townshend. The family had as their portraitist Melinda’s brother-in-law, Thomas Easterly, but only the daguerreotypes bearing the characteristic "Easterly, Artist" mats, or Easterly's handwriting on the verso, can be attributed to Easterly with absolute certainty. However, a number of the daguerreotypes of unclear provenance bear the characteristics of Easterly’s work.


The Cahill collection and the Niagara views are housed in the Graphics Division.

Box 42
#1 Mary Bailey, sixth-plate daguerreotype, unknown daguerreotypist, c. 1852 [EA-13]

#2 Mary Bailey, sixth-plate daguerreotype, Thomas M. Easterly (daguerreotypist), c. 1852 [EA-14]

#3 Mary Bailey, sixth-plate daguerreotype, Thomas M. Easterly (daguerreotypist), c. 1852 [EA-15]

#4 Mary Bailey, sixth-plate daguerreotype, Henry Long and Enoch Long (daguerreotypists), c. 1848-49 [EA-16]

Box 43
#5 William F. Cahill, sixth-plate daguerreotype, Thomas M. Easterly (daguerreotypist), c. 1855 [EA-22]

#6 William F. Cahill, sixth-plate daguerreotype, J.J. Outley

(daguerreotypist), c. 1852 [EA-24]

#7 [Florence?] Cahill, sixth-plate daguerreotype, unknown daguerreotypist, c. 1862 [EA-30]

#8 [Florence?] Cahill, sixth-plate daguerreotype, unknown daguerreotypist, c. 1862 [EA-31]

#9 [Florence?] Cahill, sixth-plate ruby glass ambrotype, unknown photographer, c. 1862 [EA-33]

#10 [Florence?] Cahill, sixth-plate ruby glass ambrotype, unknown photographer, c. 1862[EA-34]

#11 [Paul?] Cahill, ninth-plate daguerreotype, unknown daguerreotypist, c. 1862 [EA-32]

Box 44
#12 (Sarah) Melinda Bailey Cahill, sixth-plate daguerreotype, Thomas Easterly (daguerreotypist), c. 1850 [EA-3]

#13 (Sarah) Melinda Bailey Cahill, sixth-plate daguerreotype, perhaps Henry & Enoch Long (daguerreotypists), due to similarity in setting to #4, c. 1848-1849 [EA-17]

#14 (Sarah) Melinda Bailey Cahill, sixth-plate daguerreotype, unknown daguerreotypist, c. 1848-49 [EA-18]

#15 (Sarah) Melinda Bailey Cahill, sixth-plate daguerreotype, probably Thomas Easterly (daguerreotypist), due to similarities in dress and pose to #12, c. 1850 [EA-19]

#16 (Sarah) Melinda Bailey Cahill and infant, sixth-plate daguerreotype, unknown daguerreotypist, c. 1856 [EA-21]

#17 (Sarah) Melinda Bailey Cahill, sixth-plate daguerreotype in gutta-percha frame, unknown daguerreotypist, c. 1865 [EA-25]

#18 (Sarah) Melinda Bailey Cahill, sixth-plate daguerreotype, unknown daguerreotypist, c. 1865 [EA-26]

#19 (Sarah) Melinda Bailey Cahill, sixth-plate daguerreotype, unknown daguerreotypist, c. 1865 [EA-27]

Box 45
#20 (Anna) Miriam Bailey Easterly, sixth-plate daguerreotype, possibly Henry and Enoch Long, due to similarity of paper covering on back of frame to #4, c. 1848-1849 [EA-4]

#21 (Anna) Miriam Bailey Easterly, sixth-plate daguerreotype with applied color, Thomas Easterly (daguerreotypist), August 1849. Behind daguerreotype is written, "Equal’d by few." Written on each of four edges of seal on backside of daguerreotype is: "T.M. Easterly" / "Daguerrean" / "St. Louis, MO" / " August 1849" [EA-5]

#22 (Anna) Miriam Bailey Easterly, sixth-plate daguerreotype, Thomas Easterly (daguerreotypist), c. 1849. Inside case, behind daguerreotype is a "T. M. Easterly Daguerrean Artist" printed newspaper advertisement [EA-6]

#23 (Anna) Miriam Bailey Easterly (possibly in wedding attire), sixth-plate daguerreotype, Thomas Easterly (daguerreotypist), c. 1850 [EA-7]

#24 (Anna) Miriam Bailey Easterly, sixth-plate daguerreotype, Thomas Easterly (daguerreotypist), c. 1854 [EA-8]

#25 (Anna) Miriam Bailey Easterly with sewing basket, sixth-plate daguerreotype, Thomas Easterly, c. 1860 [EA-9]

#26 (Anna) Miriam Bailey Easterly, sixth-plate daguerreotype, Thomas Easterly, c. 1865 [EA-10]

#27 (Anna) Miriam Bailey Easterly, sixth-plate daguerreotype, Thomas Easterly (daguerreotypist), c. 1852 [EA-20]

Box 46
#28 Margaret Ann Bailey Townshend, sixth-plate daguerreotype, unknown daguerreotypist, c. 1850 [EA-11]

#28 Norton Strange Townshend, sixth-plate ruby glass ambrotype, unknown photographer, c. 1861 [EA-12]

#29 Norton Strange Townshend, quarter-plate daguerreotype, Thomas Easterly (daguerreotypist), c. 1865 [no EA number]

#30 Case containing portraits of (clockwise from top left): (Anna) Miriam Bailey Easterly, Thomas Easterly, (Sarah) Melinda Bailey Cahill, and Mary Bailey, daguerreotypes, Thomas Easterly (daguerreotypist), c. 1850 [EA-1]

#31 Case containing portraits of Thomas Easterly and (Anna) Miriam Bailey Easterly, daguerreotypes, Thomas Easterly (daguerreotypist), c. 1850 [EA-2]

Box 47
#32 Unidentified man (possibly William Frank Cahill), quarter-plate tintype in gutta-percha frame, unknown photographer, c. 1865 [EA-23]

#33 Unidentified young woman in Easterly’s studio chair, sixth-plate daguerreotype, Thomas Easterly (daguerreotypist), c. 1865 [EA-28]

#34 Unidentified young man, sixth-plate daguerreotype, unknown daguerreotypist, c. 1850 [EA-29]

#35 Unidentified little girl, sixth-plate ruby glass ambrotype, unknown photographer [EA-35]

#36 Unidentified little girl, sixth-plate ruby glass ambrotype, unknown photographer [EA-36]

Box 48
Four views of Niagara (clockwise from left: "Rapids Above Niagara Falls," "Niagara," "Niagara," and "Table Rocks") in one frame, Thomas Easterly (daguerreotypist), c. 1853

Box 49
Photographs [subseries]:

Family album, c. 1875 May have belonged to Sarah Melinda Cahill, Margaret Townshend’s sister

Box 50
Wing albums

1907

1907

c. 1908

1909

Box 51
1910

1913

1913

1913

1914

Box 52
1916

1916

c. 1917

1918

Box 53
Margaret Bailey Townshend album, c. 1890

Donaghue Family album, c. 1900

Unbound paper photographs

Bailey, Mary

Boyntons

Cahill, Miriam

Cahill, Sarah Melinda (Bailey)

Dodge, Homer L.

Dodge, Isabella (Donaghue)

Dodge, Margaret (Wing)

Dodge, Homer and Margaret

Other Dodges

Dodge Groups

Box 54
Donaghues

Drummond, Grace (Greenleaf)

Easterly, Thomas

Faxon, Belle

Greenleaf, Florence Cahill

Thanbyah, Moung

Townshend, Bailey

Townshend, Harriet Norton (5 folders)

Townshend, James

Townshend, James children

Townshend, Margaret Bailey

Townshend, Norton (3 folders)

Townshend Groups (6 folders)

Wallace, Alice Dodge

Wiggins, "Blind Tom"

Wing, Alice Townshend (3 folders)

Wing, Charles M. (3 folders)
One photograph is located in Oversize.

Wing, Lucius Bliss

Wing, Mary Mayhew (2 folders)

Wing, Shirley

Wings--Other

Townshend animals

Northamptonshire

Family graves

Homes (3 folders)
Two photographs of unidentified Dodge homes are located in Oversize

Landscapes

Non-family

Unidentified (5 folders)

Miscellaneous (3 folders)

Negatives

Other visual materials

Miscellaneous (8 folders)

Box 55
Boxed daguerreotypes and photographs

#1 Norton Strange Townshend, daguerreotype, c. 1843 (case made by Matthew Brady)

#2 James Houghton Townshend, daguerreotype, c. 1850

#3 Norton Strange Townshend, ambrotype, c. 1861

#4 Glass plate and metal frame (no image)

#5 Florence Cahill Greenleaf, framed albumen print, c. 1875

#6 Alice Townshend Wing as a baby, ambrotype, c. 1860

#7 Charles Mayhew Wing, ambrotype, c. 1863

#8 Charles Mayhew Wing, tintype, c. 1865

#9 Charles Mayhew Wing, ambrotype, c. 1859

#10 Norton Strange Townshend and Harriet Wood Townshend, daguerreotypes, c. 1850

#11 Three unidentified young boys, daguerreotype, c. 1850s

#12 Children of Norton S. Townshend and Margaret Bailey Townshend, tintype, c. 1863

#13 James Houghton Townshend as a boy, ambrotype, c. 1860 (includes two small tintypes)

#14 Margaret Bailey Townshend, ambrotype, c. 1860

#15 Unidentified young boy, tintype, c. 1860

#16 Unidentified young man, ambrotype, 1858

#17 Lock of Arthur Smith Townshend’s hair, c. 1849

#18 Lock of Mary Florence Cahill Greenleaf’s hair, c. 1860s

#19 Unidentified soldier (possibly a Wing relative), cased tintype, c. 1855-1865

#20 Unidentified man in uniform, ruby-glass ambrotype, c. 1850s-1860s

#21 Unidentified middle-aged woman, ambrotype, c. 1856-1860

#22 Unidentified man and woman, tintype, c. 1865

#23 Unidentified man in uniform, tintype, c. 1860

#24 Unidentified man, cased tintype, c. 1865-1870

#25 Unidentified man and woman, cased tintype, c. 1870

#26 Framed carte de visite of Harriet Norton Townshend, c. 1864

Realia [series]:
Two late 19th century wooden boxes have been transferred to the Graphics Division.

Ohio State Fair and other agricultural ribbons, c. 1850s-1880s

Box 56
Wooden blocks, c. 1860

Wax profile of Joseph Lancaster, c. 1840

Geological items (quartz pebble, Herkimer "diamonds," shark tooth) in birdseye maple box.
Box and Herkimer diamonds believed to be owned by Thomas Easterly.

Marbles, c. 1870

Small framed portrait of George Townshend, c. 1900

Buttons and epaulets from Norton Townshend’s Civil War uniform, 1863

Slate and stylus, c. 1865

Yellow lustreware mug, c. 1810

Norton Townshend’s childhood cup, c. 1820

China bowl

Box 57
Geometric wooden blocks and teaching aids (belonged to Margaret Bailey Townshend), c. 1850

Engraved calling card plates

Inkwell (belonged to Norton Townshend)

Magnifier (belonged to Norton Townshend)

Loupe (belonged to Norton Townshend)

Blue transferware vase, c. 1830s-1850s

Glass vial for medicine

Vassar ring (belonged to Margaret Wing), c. 1908

Brooch, c. 1850s

Glass tube

Fan from Centennial Exhibition, 1876

Fold-out paper lantern, c. 1910

Mother Goose puzzle, 1882

Mathematics teaching aids: color tablets, wooden sticks (belonged to Margaret Bailey Townshend), c. 1840s

Paper animal toys, c. 1860s

Potholder (belonged to Margaret Bailey Townshend), c. 1830

Ivory Stanhope viewer, c. 1870

Slate (belonged to Margaret Bailey Townshend), c. 1840

Box 58
Locket with photograph of Margaret Bailey Townshend and lock of her hair, c. 1860

Wheat stalk collected by Norton Townshend

Brooch with unidentified hair, c. 1870

Hair wreath (contains the hair of at least 16 members of the Townshend and Bailey families), c. 1870

Hair bracelets, c. 1870

Hair watch fob, c. 1870

Braided lock of hair

Ring (made of hair or other fiber)

Geological items (gems, crystals, fossils, shells) believed to have belonged to Norton Townshend and Thomas Easterly

Metal souvenir keychain and lock

Box 59
Eyeglasses (belonged to Harriet N. Townshend), c. 1900

Three pocketknives, c. 1840s-1870s

Metal calling card case with angel (belonged to Margaret Bailey Townshend), c. 1855

Pencils and pens (belonged to Norton S. Townshend)

Small ivory notebooks, c. 1870s

Pipe (belonged to Norton S. Townshend)

Lacquered box (with "Bay of Tunis" figure)

Townshend china, brought from England, c. 1800

Box 60
Wooden school stool (made by Margaret Bailey Townshend), c. 1842

Box 61
Flour bag from James Townshend’s mill, c. 1870

Box 62
Dodge Photographic Slides, c. 1950s-1970s [series]:

Photographic 35mm slides of travel and outdoor activities.

Box 63
Photographic 35mm slides of travel and outdoor activities.

Box 64
Photographic 35mm slides of travel and outdoor activities.

Box 65
Photographic 35mm slides of travel and outdoor activities.

Box 66
Photographic 35mm slides of travel and outdoor activities.

Box 67
Photographic 35mm slides of travel and outdoor activities.

Box 68
Photographic 35mm slides of travel and outdoor activities.

Box 69
Photographic 35mm slides of travel and outdoor activities.