Finding Aid for Lemuel Shattuck papers, 1810-1849
02362

Summary Information

Repository
Detroit Public Library. Burton Historical Collection.
Creator
Shattuck, Lemuel,1796-1859
Title
Lemuel Shattuck papers
ID
02362
Date
1810-1849
Extent
0.5 linear ft.
General Physical Description note
(1 box)
Language
English
Abstract
Personal and family papers.

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Biographical/Historical note

Born in Ashby, N. H., Oct. 15, 1793, moved with parents to New Ipswich in infancy. Removed to Troy, Dec., 1817, to become a school teacher and to Detroit in 1818 where he taught until 1821 when he returned East. From 1822-1833 was enraged in mercantile business in Concord, Mass., and from 1834-59 in book business in Boston where he remained until his death. His other interests were history and mathematics. He married Clarissa Baxter of Boston. They had five daughters. He died in 1859. (from Appleton) (blue index cards)

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Administrative Information

Publication Information

Detroit Public Library. Burton Historical Collection.

Conditions Governing Access note

This collection is open for research use.

Existence and Location of Originals note

Originals of autobiography and some letters in Mass. Hist. Soc.

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Lemuel Shattuck papers, 1810-1849 (OCLC record)

[http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/502014648]

Controlled Access Headings

Family Name(s)

  • Shattuck family
  • Shattuck, Lemuel, -- 1796-1859 -- Archives

Genre(s)

  • Autobiographies -- aat
  • Certificates -- aat
  • Clippings (information artifacts) -- aat
  • Correspondence -- aat
  • Diaries -- aat
  • Family papers -- aat
  • Genealogies -- aat
  • Negative prints -- aat
  • Notebooks -- aat
  • Photocopies -- aat
  • Wills -- aat

Subject(s)

  • Businesspeople.
  • Masonry.
  • Teachers.

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Other Finding Aids note

Finding aid and white index cards available in the Burton Historical Collection and on the World Wide Web.

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Collection Inventory

Item

Correspondence; Masonic certificates; and appointment. -- 1810-1929   42.0 p. : Phot. neg. 

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Autobiographical sketch, including copies of letter from Shattuck to Daniel Shattuck,ll-5-19; testimonial from the trustees of the University of Michigan 1816-1822 

Immediate Source of Acquisition note

Loaned for reproduction by the Mass. Hist. Soc., Boston, through Miss Clara B.Dooson, Pasadena, calif., October, 1930.

General note

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Letter from Lewis Casa to Shattuck. -- 1820 Nov. 17 

Immediate Source of Acquisition note

Gift of Miss Clara B. Dobson, May 8, 1929

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Letter from Ashbel S. Wells to Snattuck. -- 1849 Feb. 17. 

Immediate Source of Acquisition note

Gift of Miss Clara B. Dobson, May 8, 1929

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Diary. -- 1812-1815. --    Phot. neg.

Immediate Source of Acquisition note

Loaned for reproduction by the Mass. Hist. Soc., Boston, October, 1929.

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Diary; Shadduck genealogy; copy of will of John Shattuck, 1816; copies of letters (3) between Rebeccah and Lemuel Shattuck. -- 1811-1812. --   173.0 p. : Phot. neg. 

Immediate Source of Acquisition note

Loaned for reproduction by the Mass. Hist. Soc., Boston. Oct. 1929.

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4 school books. 

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Clippings. 

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