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Caroline Crane Marsh Diary, September 23 - December 21, 1864

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Creator: Marsh, Caroline Crane, 1816-1901.
Date Created: 1864
Description: The Italian ministry dissolves and reforms in this diary amid countrywide protests against the September Convention treaty and debates over proposed bills for the suppression of monasteries and tax hikes on salt and other goods. The Marshes acquire the lower floors of the Casa d’Angennes during this period and the offices of the American Legation move into those rooms shortly after. Caroline Crane Marsh continues collecting items for the U.S. Sanitary Fairs and has an audience with the Duchess of Genoa. Topics in this diary include Italian law enforcement, slavery in the United States, differences between Turin and Florence, Italian art, Italian grief and funerary practices, convents, Italian medicine, relations between the Italian social classes, crime in Italy, political relations between Italy, France, and Rome; Catholicism, marriage, traveling and tourism in Russia, the Greek War of Independence, and the royal family of Savoy.
Parent Collections: Caroline Crane Marsh Diaries, Vermont Diaries

Part of: Diaries

Henry Osman Fisher Diary, 1894-1895

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Creator: Fisher, Henry Osman, 1872-1954.
Date Created: 1894-1895
Description: Henry Osman Fisher was born on October 23, 1872 in Addison, Vt. to Osman and Emma (Smith) Fisher. In 1894, Fisher was hired to sell Merino sheep and left Vermont for New York City. In November of that year, he and his brother-in-law, Carlton Watson Sprague, sailed to South Africa with 35 sheep. Fisher and Sprague landed in Cape Town and sold the sheep in Bloemfontein, before returning to the U.S. in April 1895. Fisher returned to South Africa the following year, selling sheep in Port Elizabeth and Molteno on behalf of C.W. Mason. Fisher made a third trip overseas in 1897, this time selling sheep in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Eventually, Fisher left the sheep exporting business and returned to Vermont to run a farm in Panton, where he married Jessie May Field (1879-1967) on August 3, 1906. The couple had two children, Osman Field Fisher (1910-1993) and Ellen Bigelow (1907-1987). Fisher was a Freemason (Union Lodge No. 2, Middlebury) and was a charter member of Otter Creek Chapter No. 74 of the Order of the Eastern Star in Vergennes. Topics in this diary include the international Merino sheep trade, selling livestock in Africa and South America, the perils of turn-of-the-century sea travel, and meteorological phenomena on the Atlantic Ocean.
Parent Collections: Diaries

Part of: Diaries

Chester Way Diary, 1918

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Creator: Way, Chester Murray, 1897-1973.
Date Created: 1918
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

Part of: Diaries

Genieve Lamson Diary, 1910-1912

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Creator: Lamson, Genieve, 1887-1966.
Date Created: 1910-1912
Description: Genieve Amelia Lamson was born in Randolph, Vt. to Whitcomb Elisha and Hannah Amelia (Philbrick) Lamson on April 29, 1887. Lamson graduated from Randolph High School in 1905. After graduation, she taught for four terms in Vermont district schools and for five years (until 1915) in high schools in Roselle Park, NJ and Springfield, Mass. Lamson completed her undergraduate and graduate studies at the University of Chicago, receiving her B.S. degree in 1920 and an M.S. in geography in 1922. She accepted a professorship at Vassar College in 1922 and taught in the geography department until her retirement in 1952. Lamson traveled extensively during her 20s. In 1909, she visited family and friends in the Pacific Northwest and went on several sightseeing excursions in California, Oregon, and Washington. She and her sister Gail traveled through Britain, France, Germany, Switzerland, and Italy in 1912, and the pair took a trip to Bermuda in 1915. Lamson was an active suffragist and was appointed by the Vermont Suffragist Association to chair the suffragist convention in Orange County in 1919. Lamson remained an active member of her community throughout her life, donating her time and money to a number of social and professional organizations. She was also a historian and choir member of Bethany Congregational Church, a sponsor of Vermont Symphony Orchestra concerts in Randolph, a member of the Randolph Woman’s Club, and a member of the Randolph Garden Club. Lamson died on September 22, 1966. Topics in Lamson’s diaries include teaching (as well as the process for becoming a certified teacher in Vermont circa 1910), major cities of the West Coast, including Los Angeles, San Francisco, Portland, and Seattle; turn-of-the-century fashion and home clothes-making, the sinking of the Titanic, turn-of-the-century slang, and the local history of Randolph, Vt.
Parent Collections: Diaries

Part of: Diaries

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

Part of: Justin Morrill Letters to UVM President Matthew 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

Part of: Justin Morrill Letters to UVM President Matthew 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

Part of: Justin Morrill Letters to UVM President Matthew 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

Part of: Justin Morrill Letters to UVM President Matthew 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

Part of: Justin Morrill Letters to UVM President Matthew 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

Part of: Justin Morrill Letters to UVM President Matthew Buckham

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