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Bayly Family papers
by Bayly, Alexander Hamilton; Bayly, J. Washington E.; Bayly, Josiah; Bayly, Julian (1706 – 1934)
37 cartons (47 linear feet)
The papers of the Bayly family extensively document the Cambridge, Dorchester County, Maryland family from 1706-1934, with the bulk of the material dating from 1820-1865. This comprehensive collection documents the lengthy legal and political career of Maryland Attorney General Josiah Bayly, as well as the prolific medical practices of his son, Dr. Alexander Hamilton Bayly. Simultaneously, the collection documents family education practices, and thoughts on the American Civil War through scrapbooks and correspondence. Leisure activities are observed through a variety of fictional publications from the Library of Select Novels, and the Shakespeare Quarto Illustrated. Additional printed materials include local and national newspapers, almanac’s, weekly satirical magazines, Godey’s Lady’s Book and Blackwood’s Edinburg Magazine.
Covington Family papers
by Unknown (1792 – 1880)
3 folders (0.03 linear feet)
The Covington Family Papers contain original documents on will abstracts, land deeds, and correspondence of members of the Covington family who resided near Snow Hill, Maryland. A majority of the documents date from the 19th century.
Disharoon Family History Collection
by Unknown (1673 – 1923)
1 folder (0.01 linear feet)
The Disharoon Family History Collection is a genealogical collection detailing the Disharoon family. Within the collection are census information, newspaper articles about Disharoon family members, a legal will, and marriage information.The documents date back to Mary Disharoon, (1673- ) in Somerset County, Maryland.
Eleanor Wynkoop Collection
by Unknown (1888 – 1894)
1 folder (0.01 linear feet)
This collection contains several land deeds from the late 19th century pertaining to the Eastern Shore of Maryland (Dorchester County). These land deeds document the buying and selling of land from residents of the Eastern Shore including James Wallace to Thomas J. Webb & John W.T. Webb, also Thomas J. Webb & Maggie A. Webb to John W.T. Webb, and S.L. Webster & Wife to W.W. Hearn & wife.
Emerson C. Harrington collection
by Harrington, Emerson; State of Maryland (1839 – 2004)
1 box, 1 oversize folder (80.5 linear feet)
The Emerson C. Harrington collection documents the prolific legal career of the former state of Maryland Governor and his son, attorney Emerson C. Harrington Jr. The bulk of the collection, direct from their law office, located in Cambridge, Dorchester County, Maryland, is comprised of law books that include the Laws of Maryland,1839-1939; The Maryland Reports, Vol. 1, 1851 – Vol. 380, 2004; and Decisions of the Court of Appeals of Maryland, Vol. 1-34, 1883. In addition to the legal volumes, the materials include a series of photographic prints of the city of Cambridge, and speeches presented at the Maryland Club during dinners and parties in the mid to late 1960s and early 1970s.
Harrington and Mace records
by Harrington, Emerson C.; Mace, Irving (1893 – 1908)
1 box (0.5 linear feet)
This collection contains the law firm's incoming correspondence from 1893 through 1908. It is unsure if this collection represents all correspondence or a sampling from those years. Also in the years from 1907-1908 there is incoming correspondence from a girl, Frances Creighton, who is attending the Pierce Business School. Within her correspondence is evidence that Mr. Emerson C. Harrington was funding her education, however, it is not noted what her family relationship to him was. Included are her school grades, boarding house receipts, letters asking for funds and shorthand schoolwork. Creighton also corresponded with a woman addressed as an Aunt who acted as a connection between herself and Mr. Harrington.
Jim Willey collection
by Parsons, Milton A. (1876 – 1895)
1 folder (0.01 linear feet)
This small collection of legal documents dating from 1876 to 1895 includes several summons, and an official voting ballot for Wicomico County, Maryland.
Marah Finney Collection
by Finney, Marah; Hearn, Ebenezer; Hearn, General Ebenezer; Stevenson, John (1748 – 1989)
7 boxes (2.5 linear feet)
This collection contains materials from the Stevenson and Hearn families of Newtown, later Pocomoke City, Maryland from 1748 to 1989. The earliest documents consist of papers of John Stevenson, a doctor who attended the University of Pennsylvania for medicine in 1797 and 1798, studying under Benjamin Rush. Stevenson also settled estates, and the collection includes records detailing some of the accounts he worked. The collection also includes the scrapbooks assembled by Ebenezer Hearn, who was a teacher and involved in the Temperance Movement in the lower Eastern Shore. The scrapbooks contain news clippings related to the local and national Temperance and alcohol prohibition movement, with other clippings of national events, sermons, and education topics.
Mary L. Nock papers
by Nock, Mary L. (1669 – 1992)
3 cartons, 1 oversize box (5.5 linear feet)
Mary L. Nock papers document the professional and personal life of Mary Nock, who lived from 1903 to 1987. The papers range 1669 to 1992, as she included in her possession colonial land grants as well as a copy of the Laws of Maryland which established Salisbury in 1735. Her personal papers document her life as a wife and family member of the Layfield-Nock families through photographs, greeting cards, and genealogical research. Mary Nock’s professional papers include materials such as professional correspondence, speeches, drafts of her book It Was a Joy and a Pleasure, awards, as well as ephemera from her time as a politician. Also included in the Nock papers are written works on Mary Nock by Ginger McClain Beningo, as well as Beningo’s notes and correspondence regarding the biographical works from 1990-1992, which make up the bulk of the material.
Norm Conway papers
by Conway, Norm (1987 – 2007)
2 boxes (1 linear feet)
Norm Conway papers document the budget and management of Maryland’s financial bills. Also, documented are session and major issues reports from meetings over the years and books from the Department of Budget and Management that lays out financial figures. The material dates from 1987-2007 with the bulk dating from 1990-1994.
Parsons Family Collection
by Unknown (1668 – 1932)
1 folder (0.01 linear feet)
Detailed genealogy of the Parsons Family. Starts with generation one, Peter Parsons, who migrated to Somerset County in 1668. The last ancestor listed is George Washington Parsons (1853-1932). The genealogy states who the parents are, who they are married to, if they had children and their birth/death dates, their will and how it affected their children, and a census description of their household.
Ralph W. Powell papers
by Powell, Ralph W.; Taylor, J.E. (1885 – 1949)
3 boxes (1.5 linear feet)
The Ralph W. Powell papers documents the Princess Anne native's role as a Deputy U.S. Marshall from 1942 to 1948, his fertilizer and farm produce business from 1924 to 1949, and the agricultural business of John E. Taylor of Sharptown, Maryland from 1885 to 1899.