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Custodial History

This collection was formerly identified as Mss. Acc. 2009.196.

Preferred Citation

Samuel A. Fate Diary, Special Collections Research Center, Swem Library, College of William and Mary.

Immediate Source of Acquisition

Purchase. Acquired: 05/04/2009.

Scope and Contents

Diary of Samuel A. Fate of Marits, which is a part of Denmark, Morrow County, Ohio. Daily entries record weather, farm chores like feeding livestock, taking cows to pasture, and others, like painting the school house, cutting ice, assisting with a funeral or an election. Fate comments on the economical difficulties of the time. Also described is a trip to the 1893 Chicago World Fair. Some accounts are listed at the back of the diary. Some of the Ohio place names mentioned are: Gilead, Caledonia, Marion, Lakeside, North Canaan, Iberia, Otter Creek. Some of the names mentioned are: Thomas Gist, Otto Gist, Andy Jackson, Adam Clouse, James G. Blaine, Jacob Dickens, Frank Lyons, Mitch Bradford, Lizie Mills, James Amick, Will McKinstry, Hail Glathart, Elias Rice, Willie Baird, John Fate, Peter Baird, Willie Gist, Bruce Williams, George Martin, Frank Jackson, Harry Williams, George Rice, Hall Bratton, Jud Clouse, Laura Slagle, Jack Ireland, Alf Worden, Elmer Sexton, Andrew Jackson, Wallace Lindsey, Sam Worden, John Dickens, Daisy Christy, Charles Giddis, Henry Jackson, Will Walter .

Subjects and Indexing Terms

• Farmers--Ohio
• Farms--Ohio
• Ohio--Economic conditions.
• Ohio--Social life and customs
• World's Columbian Exposition (1893 : Chicago, Ill.)