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Roswell Farnham Diary, 1848-1849

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Creator: Farnham, Roswell, 1827-1903.
Date Created: 1848-1849
Description: Roswell Farnham was born in Boston, Massachusetts on July 23, 1827, the son of Roswell and Nancy Bixby Farnham. Farnham's family moved to Bradford, Vermont in 1840, and he received his education at Bradford Academy and the University of Vermont, from which he graduated in 1849. Married to Mary Elizabeth Johnson on December 25, 1849, Farnham taught school before gaining admittance to the Orange County bar in 1857. When the Civil War broke out, he entered the First Vermont Regiment with the Bradford Guards militia as a Second Lieutenant. Farnham served with distinction in both the First Vermont and the Twelfth Vermont, and left the Army in July of 1863 as a Lieutenant Colonel. Following the war, Farnham became general counsel for the Vermont Copper Company and continued to work as both lawyer and administrator of the VCC for the rest of his life. In addition, he held a number of local and state political offices culminating in his defeat of Democrat Edward J. Phelps for the governorship of Vermont in 1880. After completing a single popular term as governor, Farnham returned to his law practice. In 1889 he also became president of the newly-formed New England Company, a group of Northern investors interested in developing the coal and iron deposits of northwestern Georgia. The New England Company was never a success, and Farnham spent much of the last decade of the nineteenth century trying to save it and the VCC from bankruptcy. Badly injured in a fall in November 1898, Farnham recovered sufficiently to resume some of his work but never regained full health. Roswell Farnham died at his home in Bradford on January 5, 1903, at the age of seventy-five. Three of Farnham’s four children lived to adulthood: Charles Cyrus Farnham (1864–1937), Florence Mary Osgood (1866–1958), and William M. Farnham (1869–1927). His first child, Roswell Phelps Farnham Jr., died in infancy in 1861. Farnham was predeceased by a half-brother, Cyrus C. Farnham, in 1863. Topics in this diary include the curriculum, faculty, and student experience at UVM in the late 1840s; Burlington and neighboring towns in the late 1840s, UVM’s Lambda Iota fraternity, Zachary Taylor and the Whig Party, and teaching in Vermont and Canada in the mid-nineteenth century. Near the end of the diary are several essays written by Farnham during his senior year at UVM. Topics in these essays include religion, natural history, and King Lear.
Parent Collections: Diaries

Chester Way Diary, 1919

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Creator: Way, Chester Murray, 1897-1973.
Date Created: 1919
Description: Chester Murray Way was born on November 12, 1897 to Harry Abel and Helen (Phelps) Way. He attended Burlington High School and later enrolled at the University of Vermont, graduating in 1922 with a degree in economics. During his time at UVM, Way was a member of the Alpha Lambda chapter of the Kappa Sigma fraternity, the Burlington chapter of the YMCA, and the editorial board for The Vermont Cynic. He also took part in UVM’s Student Army Training Corps, completing part of his service during the 1918 influenza pandemic. After college, Way ran a farm and became involved in several Vermont businesses, including the Green Mountain Mutual Fire Insurance Co. in Montpelier, the Fli-Rite School of Aviation in Swanton, and his father’s business, the Porter Screen Company, in Burlington. In 1944, Way purchased an inn in Middlebury, Vt. and renamed it the Waybury Inn; the inn was later used as a location for exterior shots for the television show Newhart. Way and his wife, Marjorie Holbrook Scott (m. 1928) were living in Middlebury at the time of Way’s death on October 4, 1973. Topics in Way’s diaries include the 1918-1919 influenza pandemic, fraternities at the University of Vermont, Kake Walk, World War One and UVM’s SATC program, Vermont farm life, and male friendships and relationships in the early twentieth century.
Parent Collections: Diaries

Mary Susan Davis Kelley Diary, 1883-1893

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Creator: Kelley, Mary Susan Davis, 1866-1917.
Date Created: 1883-1893
Description: Mary Susan Davis was born on January 10, 1866 to Benjamin Webster and Susan Adelaide (Young) Davis in Fairlee, Vt. Davis grew up in a large household consisting of her parents, her three siblings (John, James, and Rosalene), and her uncle, David Young, who suffered from epilepsy and erratic behavior due to a traumatic brain injury. After she graduated from secondary school in 1884, Davis helped her mother at home and with taking care of the boarders who occasionally resided in their home; she also taught in local schools and occasionally performed housework and childcare for hire in other households in the community. Prior to her first marriage, Davis moved to Orange, Massachusetts, where she was eventually employed by shoe manufacturer Jay B. Reynolds as a skiver. Davis was married three times over the course of her life: her first marriage was to Fred Mason on October 25, 1888, her second to Fred Sheldon Pickett in 1897 (following her divorce from Mason in January of that year), and her third to Harry Kelley on April 16, 1906. Davis suffered from chronic health issues, especially heart and reproductive ailments, throughout her life and had at least one miscarriage as a result. Davis died in Fairlee on March 30, 1917. Topics in this diary include women’s health and other subjects relating to health and medicine; the experiences of working women circa 1890, turn-of-the-century courtship and marriages, and the local social and cultural history of Fairlee, Vermont.
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Justin Smith Morrill to Matthew H. Buckham, October 30, 1876

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Creator: Morrill, Justin S. (Justin Smith), 1810-1898.
Date Created: 1876-10-30
Description: Morrill writes about possible upcoming University business in the Vermont state legislture.
Parent Collections: Justin Morrill Letters to UVM President Buckham

Justin Smith Morrill to Matthew H. Buckham, October 7, 1878

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Creator: Morrill, Justin S. (Justin Smith), 1810-1898.
Date Created: 1878-10-07
Description: Topics include 1878 US Senate election contest between Morrill and Luke Poland, and efforts to remove funding for the State Agricultural College from the University of Vermont.
Parent Collections: Justin Morrill Letters to UVM President Buckham

Justin Smith Morrill to Matthew H. Buckham, October 10, 1890

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Creator: Morrill, Justin S. (Justin Smith), 1810-1898.
Date Created: 1890-10-10
Description: Morrill writes about provisions in the Land Grant Acts related to experimental farms and the current location of the University's experimental farm.
Parent Collections: Justin Morrill Letters to UVM President Buckham

Justin Smith Morrill to Matthew H. Buckham, January 11, 1891

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Creator: Morrill, Justin S. (Justin Smith), 1810-1898.
Date Created: 1891-01-11
Description: Morrill writes about the disbursement of Land Grant funds to the University via the state of Vermont.
Parent Collections: Justin Morrill Letters to UVM President Buckham

Justin Smith Morrill to Matthew H. Buckham, March 13, 1893

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Creator: Morrill, Justin S. (Justin Smith), 1810-1898.
Date Created: 1893-03-13
Description: Morrill replies to a request from Buckham that make some remarks on an unamed topic, possibly the relationship of the Agricultural College to the University.
Parent Collections: Justin Morrill Letters to UVM President Buckham

Justin Smith Morrill to Matthew H. Buckham, October 4, 1875

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Creator: Morrill, Justin S. (Justin Smith), 1810-1898.
Date Created: 1875-10-04
Description: Morrill writes about the arrival of a bust of Charles Sumner by Preston Powers at the University, developments at Norwich University, and an issue involving the University of Vermont and an individual named Hoskins.
Parent Collections: Justin Morrill Letters to UVM President Buckham

Justin Smith Morrill to Matthew H. Buckham, January 14, 1876

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Creator: Morrill, Justin S. (Justin Smith), 1810-1898.
Date Created: 1876-01-14
Description: Morrill writes about an article in the Burlington Clipper by Mr. Jameson, with comments from Mr. Hoskins, about the University of Vermont and State Agricultural College.
Parent Collections: Justin Morrill Letters to UVM President Buckham

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