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County Tax Receipt, John B. Cornell, December 1, 1851, John B. Cornell

The Lucinda Lenore Merriss Cornell Collection: Ephemera

Printed personal property tax receipt from the County Treasurer's Office of Franklin County to John B. Cornell. The total was one dollar and forty one cents for seventy five acres of land. Dated December 1, 1851.

County Tax Receipt, Angeline Cornell, December 1, 1851, Angeline Cornell

The Lucinda Lenore Merriss Cornell Collection: Ephemera

Printed personal property tax receipt from the County Treasurer's Office of Franklin County to Angeline Cornell. The total was one dollar, twenty four cents and seven mills. Dated December 1, 1851.

County Tax Receipt, Elias Cornell Heirs, December 1, 1851, Elias Cornell

The Lucinda Lenore Merriss Cornell Collection: Ephemera

Printed personal property tax receipt from the County Treasurer's Office of Franklin County to the heirs of Elias Cornell. The total was ninety two cents and eight mills for seventy five acres of land. Dated December 1, 1851.

1851 Deed Of John M. Hart To John Bishop, John M. Hart, John Bishop, Franklin County Recorder

The Lucinda Lenore Merriss Cornell Collection: Ephemera

A handwritten copy of a deed from John M. Hart and his wife Sarah Hart to John Bishop, dated November 15th 1851. This legal document deeds a property in Franklin County, specifically ninety-four acres and fifty rods of land known as "the John Bishop farm" in Blendon township, to John Bishop for "the sum of thirteen hundred and fifty dollars."

1851 Deed Of John Bishop To Walter Bishop, John Bishop, Walter Bishop, Franklin County Recorder

The Lucinda Lenore Merriss Cornell Collection: Ephemera

A handwritten copy of a deed from John Bishop to Walter Bishop from Record 45-342, dated April 21st 1851. This document deeds a property in Blendon Township, "the undivided north half" of the premises known as the John Bishop farm, to Walter Bishop "in consideration of the sum of seven hundred dollars."

Insurance Receipt, Angeline Cornell, March 17, 1851, Angeline Cornell

The Lucinda Lenore Merriss Cornell Collection: Ephemera

Policy witness papers for Angeline Cornell by the Western Reserve Farmer's Insurance Company.

Insurance Receipt, Angeline Cornell, March 6, 1851, Angeline Cornell

The Lucinda Lenore Merriss Cornell Collection: Ephemera

Typed receipt of Angeline Cornell's insurance payment to W. R. F. Ins. Co.

County Tax Receipt, Angeline C. Cornell, November 27, 1850, Angeline C. Cornell

The Lucinda Lenore Merriss Cornell Collection: Ephemera

Printed personal property tax receipt to Angeline C. Cornell from the County Treasurer's Office of Franklin County. The total is seventy three cents and seven mills.

County Tax Receipt, John B. Cornell, November 27, 1850, John B. Cornell

The Lucinda Lenore Merriss Cornell Collection: Ephemera

Printed personal property tax receipt printed by the County Treasurer's Office of Franklin County for John B. Cornell. The total is one dollar, twenty seven cents, and eight mills.

County Tax Receipt, Elias Cornell Heirs, November 27, 1850, Elias Cornell

The Lucinda Lenore Merriss Cornell Collection: Ephemera

Printed personal property tax receipt printed by Franklin County's County Treasurer's Office. The tax was for nine dollars and eighty five cents for seventy five acres of land.

Receipt From Angeline Cornell, September 14, 1850, Angeline Cornell

The Lucinda Lenore Merriss Cornell Collection: Ephemera

Receipt from Angeline Cornell for vacant lot in Otterbein Cemetery. It reads "Blendon Sept 14th 1850

Received of Angeline C. Cornell, two dollars in full. For the vacant ground in Lot No 12413 in South half in Grave-Yard near Westerville, S. Sharp atty[sic] in fact for main[sic] Graveyard."

Western Reserve Farmers' Insurance Co. Advertisement, June 1850, S. Munson

The Lucinda Lenore Merriss Cornell Collection: Ephemera

Printed advertising pamphlet for the Western Reserve Farmer's Insurance Co.

The New Letter Writer Containing A Great Varity Of Letters, Unknown

The Lucinda Lenore Merriss Cornell Collection: Ephemera

This small pocket-sized volume is titled: The New Letter Writer, Containing a Great Variety of Letters on the Following Subjects: Relationship, Business, Love, Courtship and Marriage, Friendship, and Miscellaneous Letters... The publication date is unknown, but the imprint is "New York: Richard Mars[?], 138 William Street."

Parley's Fables, Ingram Cobbin

The Lucinda Lenore Merriss Cornell Collection: Ephemera

This hardcover book, titled Parley's Fables according to the page headers, is bound with uneven, hand-stitched black thread. The title page is missing, but the preface reveals that "this little book is chiefly compiled from a collection of Fables, by Ingram Cobbin, recently published in London."

Postcard Of City Street, Unknown

The Lucinda Lenore Merriss Cornell Collection: Ephemera

Colorless postcard of a horse-and-buggy traveling down a snowy street lined with electric poles. The handwritten notation on the back identifies this view as "Westerville - State Street looking north just before College Ave."

County Tax Receipt, Elias Cornell Heirs, December 14, 1849, Elias Cornell

The Lucinda Lenore Merriss Cornell Collection: Ephemera

Printed county property tax receipt by Franklin County to the heirs of Elias Cornell, dated December 14, 1849. The property tax was nine dollars, forty five cents, and three mills for seventy five acres.

County Tax Receipt, A C Cornell, December 14, 1849, A C. Cornell

The Lucinda Lenore Merriss Cornell Collection: Ephemera

Printed receipt for personal property tax by the County Treasurer's Office of Franklin County. A. C. Cornell paid ninety three cents and eight mills.

Lucinda Lenore Merriss Cornell's Autograph Book, Lucinda Lenore Merriss Cornell

The Lucinda Lenore Merriss Cornell Collection: Ephemera

This Autograph Book, also called an Album Book, belonged to Lucinda Lenore Merriss Cornell and is full of messages, many of them poems, written to her by friends and family. The book is bound in black leather decorated with floral designs and printed with several picturesque engravings in its pages like "View of Northumberland (on the Susquehanna)" engraved by H. Griffiths after a picture by W. H. Bartlet.

County Tax Receipt, Angeline C. Cornell, December 15, 1848, Angeline Cornell

The Lucinda Lenore Merriss Cornell Collection: Ephemera

County tax receipt printed by the County Treasurer's Office of Franklin County. Angeline C. Cornell paid 0.89 cents and 8 mills.

County Tax Receipt, Elias Cornell, December 12, 1848, Elias Cornell

The Lucinda Lenore Merriss Cornell Collection: Ephemera

Printed personal property tax for Elias Cornell from the County Treasurer's Office of Franklin County, dated December 12, 1848. The total is nine dollars and ten cents and five mills. Signed by J Liley.

County Tax Receipt, Elias Cornell, November 3, 1847, Elias Cornell

The Lucinda Lenore Merriss Cornell Collection: Ephemera

Printed personal property tax for Elias Cornell from the County Treasurer's Office of Franklin County, dated November 3, 1847. The total is eight dollars, eight cents, and three mills. Signed by J Liley.

County Tax Receipt, Angeline C. Cornell, November 3, 1847, Angeline C. Cornell

The Lucinda Lenore Merriss Cornell Collection: Ephemera

Printed personal property tax for Angeline C. Cornell from County Treasurer's Office of Franklin County, dated November 3, 1847. The total is eighty cents. Signed by J. Liley.

County Tax Receipt, Angeline Cornell, October 21, 1846, Angeline C. Cornell

The Lucinda Lenore Merriss Cornell Collection: Ephemera

Printed personal property tax for Angeline C. Cornell from the County Treasurer's Office of Franklin County, dated October 21, 1846. The total is forty seven cents. Signed by J Liley.

County Tax Receipt, Elias Cornell, October 21, 1846, Elias Cornell

The Lucinda Lenore Merriss Cornell Collection: Ephemera

Printed personal property tax for Elias Cornell from the County Treasurer's Office of Franklin County, dated October 21, 1846. The total is seven dollars and fifteen cents. Signed by J Liley.

Receipt From Angeline C. Cornell, May 9, 1846, Angeline B. Cornell

The Lucinda Lenore Merriss Cornell Collection: Ephemera

Receipt from Angeline C. Cornell for clerk fees. It reads "Rec_ May 9th 1846 of Mrs Angeline C. Cornell guardian of John B. + Alice J. Cornell one dollar and fifty cents clerk fees for this time

L. Heyl CLK"

Guardianship Letter, May 9, 1846, Lewis Heyl

The Lucinda Lenore Merriss Cornell Collection: Ephemera

Letter from Lewis Heyl, clerk of Common Pleas that declares Angeline C. Cornell to have guardianship over John B. Cornell and Alice J. Cornell. The back reads "1846 guardianship for Angeline C. Bishop-Cornell for her two children following her husband (Elias') death."

Mitchell's Primary Geography, S. Augustus Mitchell

Osher Map Library Collection Books

Full title: Mitchell's Primary Geography: an easy introduction to the study of geography : designed for the instruction of children in schools and families : illustrated by one hundred and twenty engravings and fourteen maps

178 pages: illustrated, maps (some colored)

Golden Maxims: Or, A Thought For Every Day In The Year, Rev. Robert Bond

The Lucinda Lenore Merriss Cornell Collection: Ephemera

This book, titled "Golden Maxims: Or, A Thought for Every Day in the Year," is pocket-sized and clothbound with golden gilt edges. A small photographic portrait of a young man identified as Otto. B Cornell is pasted on the front endpapers. On the same page, the book is signed in pen by an owner with "Alice J. Cornell, Westerville, Ohio."

John Hale Letter Acknowledging A Request To Speak At The Mercantile Library Association, September 14, 1845., John P. Hale

Broadus R. Littlejohn, Jr. Manuscript and Ephemera Collection

Hale writes that he has been so "harrassed with business" that he has "had but little time to attend to any thing else, or even to think of aught beside." "I have had to continue almost alone against the whole pack of profligate & venal newspaper Editors set upon me."

1842 Deed Of Aaron Ogden And Wife, Aaron Ogden, Franklin County Recorder

The Lucinda Lenore Merriss Cornell Collection: Ephemera

A handwritten copy of a deed from Aaron Ogden and his wife Mary to [Stephen Brinkerhoff] recorded in Book [18]-38, dated September 20th 1842. This document is faded.