Scope and Contents From the Series: This series has been arranged into two subseries, and is arranged alphabetically within each subseries. The first subseries contains primarily land deeds, including an extensive collection of land transactions by Morris Woodruff and his business partner Simeon Harrison. It also includes numerous legal documents signed by George C. Woodruff as justice of the peace. The second subseries contains, in addition to land deeds, a number of other kinds of transactions, including sales of cows and...

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Letters dated August 17 and 18, 1910 from George M. Woodruff to F. J. Kingsbury concerning the origin of the name "Headquarters" in the western part of town, which may have been called "Nigger quarters" at one time.

Scope and Contents From the Series: This series contains the correspondence of other members of the Woodruff family as well as third-party correspondence.  The series has been divided into several subseries by primary correspondent, and alphabetically in each subseries.  Each subseries provides a window into the primary correspondent's personal and business life.  For example, the first subseries contains both financial letters to Morris Woodruff as well as his letters to his wife Candace; and the ninth subseries contains...

Scope and Contents From the Series: This series has been arranged into two subseries, and is arranged alphabetically within each subseries. The first subseries contains primarily land deeds, including an extensive collection of land transactions by Morris Woodruff and his business partner Simeon Harrison. It also includes numerous legal documents signed by George C. Woodruff as justice of the peace. The second subseries contains, in addition to land deeds, a number of other kinds of transactions, including sales of cows and...

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Reports on their father's illness and draws a floor plan of his house.

Scope and Contents From the Series: This series has been divided into seven subseries to reflect Woodruff's diverse business and personal correspondence. The first subseries, law, consists primarily of correspondence from his law clients, for whom he worked in many cases as a debt collector, as well as from those he dunned for money. The second subseries represents his correspondence as postmaster of Litchfield. In addition to routine postal office business, including scheduling mail deliveries, inquiring about potential...

Scope and Contents From the Series: This series has been divided into seven subseries to reflect Woodruff's diverse business and personal correspondence. The first subseries, law, consists primarily of correspondence from his law clients, for whom he worked in many cases as a debt collector, as well as from those he dunned for money. The second subseries represents his correspondence as postmaster of Litchfield. In addition to routine postal office business, including scheduling mail deliveries, inquiring about potential...

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Includes inquiries about old Litchfield acquaintances, including Sally Pierce.

Scope and Contents From the Series: This series primarily reflects the business activities of George C. Woodruff, though the final subseries includes business papers from Woodruff family members and others. The contents of the first subseries reveal much about Woodruff's law studies and practice, including his law school notebooks and his notes on actual lawsuits. The second subseries concerns Woodruff's investments, primarily in banks and railroads, and includes newspaper clippings and printed circulars which reveal the...

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Letter to her cousin Samuel Parsons.