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RG 30/378 - Albert H. Johnson (1836-1899)
Inventory
An asterisk (*) indicates restricted records.

Series 1: Biographical File and Personal Materials, 1886-1904, 1909, 1926, 1936, 1943, 2004, n.d.

Box 1

Biographical file, re: Mrs. Cliffe Updegraf Johnson Merriam, 1909, 1926, 1936, 1943, 2004, n.d.
Guest book, 1886-1904

Series 2: Correspondence, 1870-75, 1880-82, 1894, 1897, 1900-01, 1934, n.d.

Subseries 1. Business Correspondence (received), 1870-75, 1880-82, 1897, 1901 (arranged alphabetically)

Box 2

Albert H. Johnson (received)

Clark, Wolcott, and Company, 1873-74 (1 letter)
Fernandina and Jacksonville (Florida) Railroad Short Line, Invitation to the inaugural
ceremonies, March 23, 1881 (1 invitation)

Kellogg, W.F., 1872-73 (11 letters)
Miscellaneous Business Correspondence, 1873, 1875, 1880-82, n.d. (14 letters)
Plumb, Samuel, 1870-72 (10 letters)
Tappan, James, 1873 (3 letters)

Albert M. Johnson (received)

Baldwin Locomotive Works, Philadelphia, 1897 (2 letters)
R.B. Hutchcraft of the Grain, Hemp, Seeds, & Co., to Albert M. Johnson, September 11, 1901 (1 letter)
H.K. Porter and Co. to the Mussey Stone Company, November 5 and 29, 1897 (2 letters)

Subseries 2. Personal Correspondence, (sent and received), 1880-81, 1894, 1900, 1934, n.d. (arranged chronologically)

Box 2 (cont.)

Johnson family members (Rebecca Ann Jenkins Johnson, brothers, and his mother) to Albert H. Johnson, 1880-81 (11 letters)
Mrs. Rebecca Johnson to husband (Albert H. Johnson), 1881 (11 letters)
Albert H. Johnson (father) to Albert M. Johnson (son), April 11, 1894 (1 letter)
John Henry Barrows, president of Oberlin College, to Albert Mussey Johnson, October 6 and 20, November 5-6, 1900 (4 letters)
Miami Biltmore Hotel to Mr. and Mrs. Albert M. Johnson, 1934 (1 letter)
Cornelia Mussey Johnson (grandmother) to Albert Mussey Johnson, postcard, n.d. (1 postcard)

Series 3. Financial Records, 1860s-1917, n.d.

Box 2 (cont.)

Bills, Invoices, Statements, 1866-98, n.d.
Business Ledgers (3), 1863-1917 (Box 7, oversize)
Expense ledger of Albert Mussey Johnson, n.d.
Receipts, Promissory Notes, Checks, c. 1860s-1900 (3f)

Box 3 (oversize)

Business Ledgers (3), 1863-1917

Series 4. Printed Matter, 1861, 1869, 1881, 1891, 1899, 1902, 1918, 1920, 1924-25, 1984, n.d. (arranged alphabetically)

Box 4

Business Cards, n.d.
Gas Superintendent: Pocket Companion, 1869
Greek New Testament Bible, (Philadelphia: Harris and Brother, Gas Meter Manufacturers), 1861
Manual for Administrators and Executors in the State of Ohio (Toledo, Ohio: The B.F. Wade Co., 1891)
Manual of Praise with Responsible Readings (Oberlin, Ohio: E. J. Goodrich, copyright 1880), reprint 1889
Manual of Praise (Oberlin, Ohio: E. J. Goodrich, copyright 1880), reprint 1899

Box 5

New England Bird Life: a Manual of Ornithology, by Winfred Stearns, 1881 (inscribed “Cliffe U. Merriam)
Ohio Friends in the Land of Sinim, by Walter Williams, 1925 (inscribed “Cliffe U. Merriam with love from Aunt Dill”)
Our Native Trees, by Harriett Keeler, 1902
“Scotty’s Gold Mine: Alumni Couple Turns Out to be the Force Behind Death Valley’s Fabled ‘Castle’," by Charles G. Miller ’18, Cornell Alumni News, March 1984 (photocopy)
Souvenir of Lorain Tornado, a book of photographs documenting the destruction caused by the Lorain Tornado on June 28, 1924.
The Way to Life, by Henry Churchill King (New York: The MacMillan Co., 1918)

Series 5. Property Records, 1822-1905

Box 6

Property deeds and associated correspondence, 1822-1905 (4f)

Series 6. Vital Records, 1867-72

Box 7

Guardianship Papers, re: The Stone children, 1867
Home Owner Insurance Policies (10 policies), 1867-72
Pension – Albert H. Johnson, 1868

Series 7. Materials relating to the Arkansas Midland Railroad Company, 1853-97

Box 7 (cont.)

Amendments to the Charter and Deed of Trust, 1853-89 (2f)
Assets, 1879
Board of Railroad Commissioners (Little Rock, Arkansas), minutes of meetings, August-September, 1879
Local Passenger Tariff book, 1891
Richmond (Virginia) Locomotive and Machine Works, locomotive specifications, 1897
The Credit Company, Limited, Appellant vs. The Arkansas Central railway Company Et Al., Transcript of Record, Supreme Court of the United States, October, 1888

  • See also Series 3 for Financial Records

Series 8. Scrapbooks, 1881, 1890s

Box 8

Scrapbook of illustrations belonging to Mrs. Edna Johnson.  Contains a printed list of included illustrations, 1881 (i.e., “Twilight” by J.L. Hamon)
Mussey Stone Company (Cleveland, Ohio), clipping, business cards, correspondence, 1890s  (scrapbook, Box 7, oversize)
Scrapbook of newspaper and magazine clippings, c. 1891

Series 9.  Photographs, 1905, 1919, n.d.

Box 8 (cont.)

Albert Harrison Johnson, n.d. (photocopy)
Cliffe Updegraff Johnson, n.d. (3 photos – photocopies)
The residence of Mr. Albert Mussey Johnson, from Book of the North Shore, by Marilyn White, 1919 (photocopy)
Rogers Locomotive, n.d.

Box 9 (oversize)

Albert H. Johnson, n.d. (housed in flat box)
Framed photograph “From the House-top of Lodore, July 1905”  (housed in flat box)

 
 
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