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Contains 127 Results:

Item No. 88: Family Correspondence -- PLATTENBURG, Ellen S. Autograph letter signed to Anna R. Meek, dated Steamboat Paul Anderson, Cincinnati, 13 April 1854. 4pp. "Dear Sister Anna" description of steamboat travel to Saint Louis., 13 April 1854

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 15
Dates: 13 April 1854
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center / Philip Doddridge, Politician, Personal and Family Papers / Series 3. Plattenburg Family Papers

Item No. 89: Family Correspondence -- (PLATTENBURG, PERRY). Partially printed document completed in manuscript. Deed for purchase of property in Canton, Fulton County, Illinois, dated 3 August 1854. Between William Bache of Willsborough, Tioga Co., Penna. and Plattenburg, 3 August 1854

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 15
Dates: 3 August 1854
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center / Philip Doddridge, Politician, Personal and Family Papers / Series 3. Plattenburg Family Papers

Item No. 90: Family Correspondence -- PLATTENBURG, Ellen S. Autograph letter signed to Anna R. Meek, dated Canton 11 December 1854. 4pp. "Dear Sister Anna" "We all supposed he was taking ague but he said he felt differently. Platt administered a dose blue pills that night and the next night but still he grew worse on Saturday sent for a Dr. and would you believe he took it in his head to have a homeopathic who dosed him out his little sugar plums until Monday morning his fever gaining all the while. We then called in a regular physician and by that time I was on hand… "Much other family news and some comments on hog butchering in Canton., 11 December 1854

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 15
Dates: 11 December 1854
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center / Philip Doddridge, Politician, Personal and Family Papers / Series 3. Plattenburg Family Papers

Item No. 91: Family Correspondence -- WELLS, Nathaniel P. Autograph letter signed, dated Chillicothe 17 December 1854. 2pp. "Dear Aunt" sending family news, 17 December 1854

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 15
Dates: 17 December 1854
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center / Philip Doddridge, Politician, Personal and Family Papers / Series 3. Plattenburg Family Papers

Item No. 92: Family Correspondence -- PLATTENBURG, Ellen S. Autograph letter signed to Anna R. Meek, dated Canton 29 January 1856. 2pp. "Dear Sister Anna" Sends family news, 29 January 1856

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 15
Dates: 29 January 1856
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center / Philip Doddridge, Politician, Personal and Family Papers / Series 3. Plattenburg Family Papers

Item No. 93: Family Correspondence -- PLATTENBURG, Ellen S. Autograph letter signed to "My dear Sister". Canton 14th 1856. 4pp. Sending family news, 14 [no month] 1856

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 15
Dates: 14 [no month] 1856
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center / Philip Doddridge, Politician, Personal and Family Papers / Series 3. Plattenburg Family Papers

Item No. 94: Family Correspondence -- PLATTENBURG, Ellen S. Autograph letter signed to Anna R. Meek, dated Canton 3 November 1856. 6pp. "Politics are the topic of conversation everywhere, the almost all absorbing theme and mass meetings all the go. The great Freemont meeting of Tuesday passed of the occasion excepting that the wind was a little cutting to the white dressed Ladies in the boats…. Platt will not be here to give his note that is too bad…." Tells of a neighbor much impressed that she is Philip Doddridge's daughter., 3 November 1856

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 15
Dates: 3 November 1856
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center / Philip Doddridge, Politician, Personal and Family Papers / Series 3. Plattenburg Family Papers

Item No. 95: Family Correspondence -- BENSON, John. Autograph letter signed to Ellen Plattenburg, dated Farmington 28 July 1859. 2pp. "I received a copy of the Canton Register containing a notice of the death of your respected remarkable mother.", 28 July 1859

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 15
Dates: 28 July 1859
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center / Philip Doddridge, Politician, Personal and Family Papers / Series 3. Plattenburg Family Papers

Item No. 96: Family Correspondence -- STEPHENS, Lewis Meany. Autograph letter signed, dated Wellsburg 6 March 1860 with orig. envelope. 2pp. "Dear Brother and Sister" "Grandmother is not apperanttly [sic] any Better" family news, 6 March 1860

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 16
Dates: 6 March 1860
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center / Philip Doddridge, Politician, Personal and Family Papers / Series 3. Plattenburg Family Papers

Item No. 97: Family Correspondence -- PLATTENBERG, William. Autograph letter signed to Perry Plattenburg, Canton 18 March 1860 with mailing envelope. 1p. "I still intend to come to O. if there is any show atal. Thus far it has been as big a humbug as Pikes Peak. … You have a young niece named Anderson. She made her appearance this morning at 5 o.clock.", 18 March 1860

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 16
Dates: 18 March 1860
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center / Philip Doddridge, Politician, Personal and Family Papers / Series 3. Plattenburg Family Papers