Collection context
Summary
- Creator:
- Collins, Merriam, and Lyon Family
- Abstract:
- Personal and business papers of members of these related families, especially Charles Bush Collins, Lyman R. Lyon, Clinton L. Merriam, Charles C. Merriam and his wife Florence Lyon Merriam. Includes letters, diaries, military commissions, wills, inventories, cash accounts, deeds, and field books relating to their large land holdings in Lewis County, N.Y., their lumber business, and their involvement in politics. Also contains a large number of household bills of the Lyon family.
- Extent:
- 10 linear feet and 61 volumes
- Language:
- English
Background
- Scope and Content:
Personal and business papers of members of these related families, especially Charles Bush Collins, Lyman R. Lyon, Clinton L. Merriam, Charles C. Merriam and his wife Florence Lyon Merriam. Includes letters, diaries, military commissions, wills, inventories, cash accounts, deeds, and field books relating to their large land holdings in Lewis County, N.Y., their lumber business, and their involvement in politics. Also contains a large number of household bills of the Lyon family.
- Biographical / Historical:
Charles Bush Collins (1807-1881) was the son of Levi Collins (1778-1819) and Mary "Polly" Bush Collins (1783-1836). He resided in New York City for most of the year, but summered in the town of Collinsville, in Lewis County, New York. His half-sister, Caroline Hart Merriam (1827-1893) married Clinton L. Merriam (1824-1900), who later became a United States Representative, serving in the Fourty-second and Fourty-third Congresses from 1871 to 1875. The Merriams' children included the zoologist Clinton Hart Merriam (1855-1942), the ornithologist Florence Merriam Bailey (1863-1948), and Charles Collins Merriam (1850-1931). Charles Collins Merriam married Florence Lyon Merriam (1851-1931), who was the daughter of Lyman Lyon (1806-1869) and Mary Lyon (1812-1891). This linked the Collins, Merriam, and Lyon families, who were prominent in Lewis County.
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- Describing Archives: a Content Standard
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