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      Emily Howard Jennings Stowe (1831-1903) was a teacher and principal, a medical doctor, and a suffragette. Educated at home, Stowe became a teacher in 1846 and graduated from the Provincial Normal School in Toronto, Canada West in 1854. In 1865 Stowe applied to study medicine at the University of Toronto, …

      A letter of Stephen Wright to Amos Wright (25 Oct. 1879).

      Letter from Martha Dykes (a cousin) to James Pate, sent January 18, 1879. In the letter she discussed her school lessons, and how a girl named Miss Scott went skating and got sick and died. Jessie scott was staying with Martha through the summer. She discussed how the farm was …

      General summary of the Wright family for nine generations from pre-1631 to 1879, with a note of S. Wright addressed to Amos Wright.

 unknown, The Intelligencer, 19 Jun 1879, p. 3     newspaper article

 unknown, The Intelligencer, 2 Jun 1879, p. 2     newspaper article from the Daily Ontario

 unknown, The Intelligencer, 2 Jun 1879, p. 3     newspaper article from Daily Intelligencer

      The New Schooner Leadville The dimensions of the new schooner Leadville, owned by M.J. Cummings and launched at Goble & Macfarlane's yards yesterday, are as follows: Length 142 feet 6 inches; beam 26 feet 3 inches; depth of hold in the shoalest place, 12 feet, and at ...

      A Deadly Fall. ____ A Sailor Plunges from the Cross Trees of the Schooner Bentley, Eighty-five Feet to the Deck - A Rotten Rope. _____ About 8 o'clock last evening, Andrew Skillin, of West Eighth street between Seneca and Schuyler, a sailor on the schooner J. ...

      The reference, of course, is to a set in the Gilbert and Sullivan comic opera "H.M.S. Pinafore," which was playing at the Detroit Opera House almost exactly one year after its debut in England. One can imagine the P&T's editor having his little joke at the expense of the marine …

      The Alanson Sumner at Halifax Acadian Recorder (Halifax) June 25: the American steam tug Alanson Sumner: arrived off the mouth of the harbor about midnight, or one o'clock this morning, and had to lay off three or four hours owing to the heavy fog which obscured the entrance. She ...

      THE GREAT DISASTER Further Particulars -- Eleven Lives Not Accounted For -- None Reported Saved Since Last Night -- The Pecuniary Loss $ 100,000 with No Insurance -- Statements of Survivors -- How the Lost Were Swept off and Drowned -- How the Survivors were Rescued -- A Story of …

      THE GREAT DISASTER Full list of the Lost and Saved -- The Property Loss Valued at About $ 40,000 -- No Insurance -- A Review of the Dreadful Calamity. ___________________________ There seems this morning to be very little to add to the very full and graphic story of ...

      THE GREAT DISASTER. The Company's Safe, Containing Valuable Papers, Wages of the Crews and Money Lost on the Gordon -- A Large Sum of Money and Valuable Papers on the Body of Mr. Arnoldt -- Reward for its Recovery -- The Fleet Warned at the Cape -- Mr. Hall Opposed …

      THE NOVEMBER GALE. News from the Stranded Vessels -- The Schooner Ashore at South Bay -- Another Vessel Breaks from her Anchorage but Gets into Oswego -- A Plucky Sailor -- Condition of the Gerrit Smith -- Vessels in Lake Ontario Ports. _________ WRECKS AND LOSS OF LIFE ...

      BROWNE . -- At 5 o'clock this morning there passed from this earthly scene another of Hamilton's enterprising citizens who have contributed much to the building up of the city as a great commercial centre. We refer to the death of Mr. Michael W. Browne which took place at his …

      Along the Docks. Hon. A.C. Mattoon arrived here at 6:30 A.M. today with the engine and boiler of the steam barge Ellsworth from Stony Island. After a week's hard work with sixteen men under the eficient management of John E. Riley, the task of raising the heavy engine and boiler …

      The Ellsworth's Machinery Next week Hon.A.C. Msttoon will pobably raise the machinery of the propeller Ellsworth, sunk at Stony Island. There is considerable talk of building a first freight and passenger boat to run between Oswego and the river. It is believed that a safe, ...

      The New Steamer and Her Route. ____ Hon. A.C. Mattoon has contracted the timber for the passenger and freight propeller which he proposes to build this winter, and work will be commenced probably about the first of January. She is to be 110 ft. keel, 120 ft, over all, 20 …

      Important Changes in the Life Services at this Point Captain John Blackburn, keeper of the life saving station at this port has received an official communication from Capt. E.P. Dobbins of Buffalo, superintendent, informing him that a full paid crew will be kept at the Oswego ...