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Farms--New York (State)

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:

Diary (Bowens Corners, New York)

 Collection
Identifier: SC 00774
Scope and Contents

Diary, 1893, of an unknown member of the Kellogg family of Bowens Corners, New York. Includes details of their family, their tobacco farm, farming in general, visitors that they entertained, trips that they took, and other matters of daily life.

Dates: 1893

George W. Fetterman Diaries

 Collection
Identifier: Mss. Acc. 2010.498
Scope and Contents Contains a sixty-year account of the life of George W. Fetterman, a western New York farmer. He started out as a laborer in Clarkson, NY, working for local farmers, including the Dennison, Garland, Garrison, Moore, Green, and King families. He later moved to Pendleton, NY, where he had a farm with his wife Eliza Prosser and daughter Dorothy. He frequently mentioned the nearby city of Lockport where he conducted business.The brief daily diary entries describe events of the day, chiefly work...
Dates: 1890-1950