Special Collections Research Center
spcoll@wm.eduFinding Aid Authors: Benjamin Bromley, Public Services Archives Specialist.
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Preferred Citation:
Buxton Family Papers, Special Collections Research Center, Swem Library, College of William and Mary
Processing Information:
Accessioned and minimally processed by Benjamin Bromley in March 2011. Processing completed by Anne Johnson in September 2014.
Biographical Information:
Maud Miller Buxton was born in North Dakota, daughter of Malcom Howard and Louise Pahl Miller. She lived in Wisconsin and Perham, Minnesota before moving to Forest Grove, Oregon by 1904, where she was a servant in the Henry T. Buxton Family (1910 census). She married Henry T. Buxton, who was almost 30 years older, by 1913 and Frank Ditterick by May 1946. She passed away in 1985 in Mcminnville Rest Home, Oregon. Per the 1910 and 1930 census, she was a servant in private homes.
Scope and Contents
Letters, legal and business documents, photographs and news clippings of Maud Miller Buxton and associated families of Miller, Buxton and Ditterick. Maud Miller was born in North Dakota and eventually moved to McMinnville, Oregon via Minnesota. Correspondence spans her early childhood through her marriage to Henry Thurston Buxton and Frank Ditterick. Most letters concern family news. Includes commencement invitations, marriage invitations and clippings of marriage announcements and obituaries. The photograph album appears to cover the 1920's. Loose photographs appear to be members of her family and are undated. A small group of letters to her father, Malcom Miller, is included.
Arrangement of Materials:
Series organized by type of material.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
- Clippings (information artifacts)
- Ditterick family
- Letters (correspondence)
- Oregon--Social life and customs
- Photograph albums
- Photographs
- Receipts (financial records)
- Scrapbooks
Significant Persons Associated With the Collection
- Buxton, Maud Miller, 1881-1985
- Miller, Malcom Howard, 1857-1933
Container List
- id240372
Series 1, Subseries 1: Maud Miller Buxton1891-1962Scope and Contents
In the 1890's, Maud Miller receives letters from friends and past teachers. She lives in Perham, Minnesota. By 1904, Maud is living in Forest Grove, Oregon and by 1913, she is married to H. T. Buxton, who passes away in 1933. The letters during the 1920's are from family members, including Maurice Miller, Howard Miller, Holly Miller, Earle Buxton and Ethel R. Gardner. In 1924, Minnie Ebberson Seay of Perham, Minnesota sends Maud her membership dates in the Rebekah Lodge (January 16, 1902 to September 3, 1903). Earle Buxton and Ethel R. Gardner write Maud in 1933 to thank her for the wonderful arrangements for their father's funeral. (H. T. Bruxton had children by an earlier marriage). A 1935 letter from Georgia describes a trip along the east and gulf coasts. The 1940's letters include letters from Pvt. Maurice Miller, who is twice in the hospital and later dies. By May 1946, Maud is married to Frank Ditterick. A 1962 form letter is addressed to Mrs. Laura Goffrier in McMinnville, Oregon from New Hope Leprosy Million in Cape Palmas Liberia, West Africa.
- Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 1 id240375 1891-1917
- Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 2 id240376 1920-1939
- Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 3 id240377 1940-1947, 1962 and undated
- id240373
Series 1, Subseries 2: Malcom MillerScope and Contents
Scope and Contents A 1894 letter to Malcom Miller, Pelham, Minnesota from "Aunt Laura" in Oregon notifies him that his Father is very ill with consumption. 1896 letters from S.L. Miller of Salem, Oregon tell of bad crops, financial problems of neighbors/relatives and his own farming news. He offers to give Malcom $500 to buy a house. A 1924 letter from H.F. Miller, Attorney-at-Law in Fargo, North Dakota and brother of Malcom, talks about the death of their Mother and ideas for handling the estate. He also mentions a trip he took to the "old home" in Wisconsin where "Grandfather Biglow's house" still stands.
- Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 4 id240379
1894-1897, 1924
- Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 4 id240379
- id240374
Series 1, Subseries 3: Invitations, Announcements, Certificates and Programs1912-1940Scope and Contents
Scope and Contents Invitations to Commencement Exercises at McMinnville High School, John Marshall High School and Salem Hospital. Wedding announcements and an invitation to a Buxton Family Association reunion. Certificate for Mary Goffrier for "Week Day Bible School." Newspaper clippings of weddings and obituaries. Hand drawn picture of "Annie Minnie" on a scrap of paper.
- Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 5 id240380 1912-1940
- Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 6 id240385
Warranty Deed, Receipts, Driver's License1912-1933Scope and Contents
1912 contract between Maud Miller and Gee & Jones for a cemetery marker to be sent to Spokane; 1920 driver's license for Maud Elizabeth Buxton; 1920 Warranty Deed from Niels Nielsen and Kirsten Nielsen to H.T. Buxton for lots in McMinnville, Oregon; 1922 check from M.H. Miller to McMinville Brick & Tile Company and two 1933 receipts for funeral expenses for Henry Thurston Buxton.
- Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 7 id240386
Oregon Tourist Brochure and a Religious FlyerUndated
- Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 8 id240388
Photographs1943 and undatedScope and Contents
Loose photographs of friends and family, cemeteries and landscapes. Only two photographs are labeled: Maureen McFee (1943) and Maude Mueller. 24 photographs.
- Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 9 id240390
Negatives
- Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 10 id240393
Photograph Album1905-1919Scope and Contents
Scope and Contents Black photograph album with string laced black pages. All photographs are glued onto the page with handwritten notes in white ink either naming the person in the photograph or making a funny comment about the person. Some fading due to moisture. 7" x12" Some people identified are Dot and Jim; Harry Lourton; Larry Miller; Virginia H. (1908); Ruth B. (1905); Earle Buxton; Ethel Buxton; Dr. Goucher's dependables; Father A. Gor & son-in-law; Maurice Miller (Astoria 1919); 5 nurses named " The five vampires;" Esther Brightman; Mother Miller; Florence Ritchie; Mrs. M.S. Miller; Dorothy and her father; Orrin; Thelma Stone; graduating (?) class of 19 nurses with all identified; Mr. and Mrs. Rosensteel and family; Miss Marion Evelyn Miller and Mother (1919) and more. McMinnville High School photographs include: Botany Class of 1911, Jones Howell Janitor of M.H. S., Chemistry Class 1911 and an undated Freshman Class.
- Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 11 id240413
ScrapbookUndatedScope and Contents
Scope and Contents Scrapbook with clippings of wedding announcements, obituaries and birth announcements. Weddings include Holly Miller's marriage to Floyd McFee of Dayton, Ohio, with photograph; Maurice (Bud) Miller to Carol Ruth Hockett; Laura Louise Miller to Herbert P. Goffrier; Pvt. Robert Frederick Miller to Edna Georgene Frink; Mrs. Maud Burton (sic) of McMinnville to Frank Ditterick and a double wedding of H.T. Buxton to Miss Maude Miller and Ethel R. Buxton (H.T.'s daughter) to Walter O. Gardner. Obituaries are for Pvt. Maurice M. Miller, Frank Ditterick and Mrs.M.H. Miller Other clippings include a group photo of Women Brigadiers for the 1944 Red Cross, local news about family visits, announcements of Buxton family reunions and articles about members of the family. Scrapbook with string tied pages. 11 pages. 11" x 14"