gere family papers: 1819-1954 size: 19 boxes - history

NEBRASKA STATE HISTORICAL SOCIETY COLLECTION RECORD

RG3472.AM: Gere Family

Papers: 1819-1954

Size: 19 boxes; 9.5 cu.ft.

SCOPE AND CONTENT NOTE

The Gere family collection consists of approximately 5,400 items arranged in eight

series: (1) correspondence, 1819-1954; (2) Willa Cather correspondence, 1891-1945 and

undated (also on microfilm); (3) undated correspondence; (4) miscellaneous papers; (5)

diaries, journals (generally undated and unsigned), biographies, bibliographies, and

genealogies; (6) printed matter and clippings, certificates; (7) miscellaneous books,

programs, and post cards.

Correspondents include: William Jennings Bryan (1904), David Butler (1869-1870),

James H. Garfield (1904-1909), Clement Chase (1884), James W. Haverstick (1864-

1869), P. W. Hitchcock (1874), G. H. Holcomb (1860-1861), O. H. Irish (1867-1869),

Charles F. Manderson (1889), David H. Mercer (1902-1904), George W. Norris (1923),

O. Paddock (1875-1891), Alvin Saunders (1872), W. C. Seacrest (1917), O. S. Stewart

(1867-1868), John Taffe (1870-1871), John M. Thayer (1870-1877).

The Gere collection contains a great variety of material including: the Cather letters; a

series of letters from Charles Henry Gere to Miss Mariel Clapham concerning the 1871

impeachment of Governor Butler; letters from Pvt. Ozro L. Woods, A.E.F., 1917, telling

his experiences during W.W.I.; and a series of diaries and journals, one of which gives an

account of flood and sickness at Table Rock, Nebraska Territory. Also Civil War diaries.

The most prominent member of the Gere family, Charles Henry Gere, was a political

figure, scholar, and founder of the Nebraska State Journal.

Note: See the photo component [RG3472.PH] for related images. See the Nebraska

History index for articles about various Gere family members. See the NSHS Library

Catalog for a speech by Charles H. Gere [978.265 G31p].

DESCRIPTION

Series 1 - Correspondence

Box 1

Folder

1. 1819

2. 1825

3. 1830

4. 1837; 1839


2

5. 1841; 1844

6. 1846

7. 1848

8. 1850

9. 1851

10. 1852

11. 1855

12. 1856

13. 1857

14. 1858

15. 1859

16. 1860

17. 1861

18. 1862

19. 1863

20. 1864

Box 2

Folder

1. 1865

2. 1866

3. 1867

4. 1862

5. 1869

6. 1869

Box 3

Folder

1. 1870

2. 1871

Box 4

Folder

1. 1872

2. 1873

3. 1874

4. 1875

5. 1876

6. 1877

7. 1878

8. 1879

9. 1880

10. 1882


3

11. 1881

12. 1883

13. 1884

14. 1885

15. 1886

16. 1887

17. 1888

18. 1889

Box 5

Folder

1. 1890

2. 1891

3. 1892

4. 1893

5. 1894

6. 1895

7. 1896

8. 1897

9. 1898

10. 1899

11. 1900

12. 1901

13. 1902

14. 1903

15. 1904

Box 6

Folder

1. 1904

2. 1905

3. 1906

4. 1907

5. 1908

6. 1909

Box 7

Folder

1. 1910

2. 1911

3. 1912

4. 1913

5. 1914


4

6. 1915

7. 1916

8. 1917

9. 1918

10. 1919

Box 8

Folder

1. 1920

2. 1921

3. 1922

4. 1923

5. 1924

6. 1925-1926

7. 1927

8. 1928

9. 1929

10. 1930

11. 1931

12. 1932

13. 1933

14. 1934

15. 1935

16. 1936

17. 1937

18. 1938

19. 1939

20. 1942

21. 1940-1941

22. 1943

23. 1944

24. 1945

25. 1946

26. 1947

27. 1951-1954

Series 2 - Cather Correspondence & Undated Essay, “Dogs”

Box 9

Folder

1. Essay on Dogs; 1891-1893 Correspondence

2. 1894-1896

3. 1901-1945 & Undated

4. 1897-1899


5

5. Misc. Letters

6. Xerox Copies, 1891-1897

7. Xerox Copies, 1898-1945 & undated

8. Willa Cather to Mariel Gere

Series 3 - Undated Correspondence

Box 10 Undated General Correspondence

Series 4 - Miscellaneous Papers

Box 11 Miscellaneous General Correspondence

Box 12

Folder

1. Miscellaneous General Correspondence

2. Misc. Calling Cards

3. Miscellaneous General Correspondence, Undated

Series 5 - Diaries, Journals, Biographies, Genealogies, etc.

Box 13

Folder

1. Diary of Julia Marie Gere 1857 Trip from NY to NE Settlement at Table Rock

2. Mrs Hannah Jane Gere Describes the Journey from Binghamton to NE 1857

3. Obituaries C.H. Gere

4. Mrs. Juliana Delay Gere, Account of Trip from Gainesville, (Wyoming County),

New York to Maryland 1838

5. Diary H.G. Gere 1830 at. Back – Account of Table Rock, NE 1857

6. March-November 1856 Diary

7. Diary C.H. Gere at Oxford 1857

8. Diary 1857, 1858 Mrs HN Gere Table Rock, NE

9. Portions of Two Diaries Undated, Unsigned

10. Diary H.N. Gere 1858 & 1859

11. Diary Undated & Unsigned

12. Account of a Stay in a Union Army Hospital

13. Biographies C.H. Gere and Bibliography

14. Diary 186?

15. Shorthand Journal C.H. Gere 1860

16. C.H. Gere 1863 Diary

17. Letter Dated 1896 Sketching Supposed Genealogy

18. Family Record – Births & Deaths

19. Family Histories and Genealogies

20. Gere Family Genealogy


6

Series 6 - Printed Material

Box 14

Folder

1. Printed Matter

2. Moscow Daily News, 1934

3. Nebraska State Journal, 14 August 45

4. Germany, Nuremburg, 1934

Box 15

Folder

1. Certificates, etc.

Series 7 - Miscellany

Box 16

Folder

1. Play Books, Theatre Magazines

2. Opera Programs

Box 17

Folder

1. Trans-Mississippi Exposition Invitation, 1898

2. Miscellaneous

3. Purchases & Sales Record Updates

4. Chemistry Notes

5. School Material

6. Misc. Lists of Callers, 1898

7. Square Dance Figures

8. Misc. School Notes

Box 18 Post cards

Folder

1. Post Card Folders

2. Post Card Album

Box 19

Folder

1. Receipts


7

Subject headings:

Butler, David, 1829-1891

Bryan, William Jennings, 1860-1925

Cather, Willa Sibert, 1875-1947

Chase, Clement

Dawes, James William, 1845-1918

Fisher, Dorothy Canfield, 1879-1958

Furnas, Robert Wilkinson, 1824-1905

Gere, Charles Henry, 1838-1904

Gere, Mariel

Gere family

Greeley, Horace, 1811-1872

Hitchcock, Phineas Warrener, 1831-1881

Irish, Orsamus H., 1831-1883

Manderson, Charles Frederick, 1832-1911

Mercer, David Henry, 1857-1919

Nebraska State Journal

Norris, George William, 1861-1944 Saunders, Alvin, 1817-1899

Table Rock (Neb.) -- History

Taffe, John, 1827-1884

Thayer, John Milton, 1820-1906

United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Personal narratives

World War, 1914-1918


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Gere Family Correspondence Calendar for Boxes 1-8

Hannah Jane Gere to Mother & Father October 1825

to Sister May 10, 1856

September 18, 1856

to Mother July 2, 1856

to George March 22, 1856

Elishu Grant to H.N. Gere May 30, 1848

July 7, 1852

March 12, 1852

March 25, 1852

November 11, 1852

June 12, 1856

November 12, 1863

Eugene Grant to Aunt Juliana May 16, 1852

December 10, 1852

L. Grant to Brother & Sister July 1850

to Sister December 1855

May 5, 1857

January 28, 1867

March 4, 1867

April 9, 1867

Betsy Grant to Brother & Sister August 1857

May 15, 1859

December 28, 1860

to Sister October 12, 1858

June 12, 1859

Charles Grant to Julia January 2, 1858

July 24, 1859

December 9, 1862

March 19, 1864

February 26, 1867

May 3, 1868

October 2, 1868

J.C. Grant to Brother & Sister October 25, 1868

to Sister July 26, 1868

Clapham to wife December 19, 1848

Hattie to Julia October 22, 1856


9

July 5, 1865

Eunice to Julia August 28, 1859

November 9, 1859

Julia to Sister April 15, 1856

August 16, 1856

J.A. Gere to nephew August 6, 1868

J.D. Gere to Hannah Jane February 1, 1856

J.D. Gere to Charles H. Gere September 30, 1857

July 4, 1858

October 24, 1858

January 3, 1859

December 15, 1859

February 6, 1860

Julia to Charles H. Gere August 3, 1857

March 1, 1858

January 27, 1861

December 13, 1861

J.N. Gere to Charles H. Gere November 1, 1857

August 28, 1859

Mother to Charles H. Gere May 31, 1857

April 5, 1859

February 12, 1868

August 16, 1866

May 20, 1867

January 3, 1869

May 17, 1870

August 26, 1870

to Charles H. & Mariel December 26, 1871

Father to Charles H. Gere January 12, 1858

Gussil to Charles H. Gere December 16, 1862

Verdie to Charles H. Gere November 5, 1863

August 20, 1867

December 6, 1867

April 4, 1870

December 6, 1870


10

Jack to Charles H. Gere June 25, 1863

Jack to Charles H. Gere July 16, 1869

G.L. Holcombe to Charles H. Gere October 24, 1861

C.P. Calhoun to Charles H. Gere February 16, 1863

Teresa Turner to Charles H. Gere July 3, 1867

Jack to Charles H. Gere July 9, 1867

O.H. Curtis to Charles H. Gere August 8, 1867

W.F. Wright to Charles H. Gere April 30, 1867

A.S. Stewart to Charles H. Gere May 27, 1867

O.H. Irish to Charles H. Gere January 11, 1868

May 4, 1868

August 24, 1868

A.A. Reese to Charles H. Gere January 28, 1869

Abbie Bain to Charles H. Gere December 24, 1882

June 7, 1883

December 27, 1884

Hattie to Charles H. Gere December 15, 1895

E.D. Strunk to Charles H. Gere February 29, 1868

John Carpenter to Charles H. Gere September 25, 1867

L.M. Havenstick to Charles H. Gere April 25, 1866

June 13, 1866

July 8, 1866

July 30, 1866

September 29, 1867

December 4, 1867

December 16, 1867

July 2, 1868

July 24, 1869

December 16, 1869

L.A. Gere to Charles H. Gere August 11, 1870

A.J. Paddock to Charles H. Gere February 1881

December 6, 1888

George to Charles H. Gere December 12, 1869

November 6, 1881

December 17, 1881

July 5, 1888

February 14, 1896

David Butler to Charles H. Gere October 18, 1870

October 26, 1870

John Thayer to Charles H. Gere April 12, 1877


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A.G. Jacobs to Charles H. Gere February 3, 1881

James Beach to Charles h. Gere October 3, 1870

Matilda Fletcher to Charles H. Gere January 19, 1871

Charlie Cook to Charles H. Gere October 17, 1870

S.D. Beals to Charles H. Gere June 26, 1871

Clement Chase to Charles H. Gere June 27, 1884

Robert Furnas to Charles H. Gere October 20, 1872

November 15, 1872

John Taylor to Charles H. Gere September 24, 1880

P. Rounds to Charles H. Gere September 21, 1872

Children to Papa October 13, 1885

Ned to Papa July 14, 1892

H.N. Gere to Charles H. Gere December 13, 1888

C.H. Manderson to Charles H. Gere December 27, 1889

James W. Dawes to Charles H. Gere April 17, 1895

Laura to Charles H. Gere January 7, 1903

Mariel Clapham to Charles H. Gere December 4, 1867

November 13, 1868

May 16, 1868

September 15, 1868

November 1, 1868

April 17, 1868

January 12, 1869

January 31, 1869

March 14, 1869

April 4, 1869

April 11, 1869

April 18, 1869

April 25, 1869

May 2, 1869

May 9, 1869


12

May 20, 1869

Mariel Clapham to Charles H. Gere May 23, 1869

May 30, 1869

June 6, 1869

June 9, 1869

June 19, 1869

June 24, 1869

June 27, 1869

July 13, 1869

July 18, 1869

July 23, 1869

August 1, 1869

August 17, 1869

September 13, 1869

October 14, 1869

October 20, 1869

October 28, 1869

November 3, 1869

November 14, 1869

November 21, 1869

November 30, 1869

December 5, 1869

December 19, 1869

December 21, 1869

December 29, 1869

January 12, 1869

January 16, 1869

January 24, 1869

April 25, 1870

May 8, 1870

May 25, 1870

May 29, 1870

May 31, 1870

June 12, 1870

June 22, 1870

June 26, 1870

July 3, 1870

July 14, 1870

July 19, 1870

July 20, 1870

July 21, 1870

July 25, 1870

August 1, 1870

August 7, 1870

August 10, 1870

August 15, 1870


13

August 21, 1870

Mariel Clapham to Charles H. Gere August 25, 1870

September 4, 1870

September 9, 1870

September 25, 1870

October 2, 1870

October 9, 1870

October 26, 1870

November 5, 1870

November 13, 1870

December 4, 1870

December 20, 1870

December 25, 1870

January 15, 1871

January 22, 1871

February 9, 1871

February 21, 1871

February 24, 1871

February 26, 1871

March 5, 1871

March 22, 1871

March 31, 1871

April 11, 1871

April 20, 1871

April 23, 1871

April 29, 1871

May 7, 1871

May 14, 1871

May 20, 1871

May 21, 1871

May 27, 1871

May 31, 1871

June 5, 1871

June 19, 1871

June 27, 1871

June 29, 1871

July 3, 1871

July 7, 1871

July 18, 1871

July 25, 1871

July 29, 1871

August 6, 1871

August 19, 1871

August 31, 1871

July 1879

January 13, 1881


14

May 18, 1881

Mariel Clapham to Charles H. Gere June 3, 1881

June 6, 1881

September 19, 1881

October 12, 1885

August 1, 1894

August 27, 1899

September 15, 1899

October 7, 1902

May 19, 1903

Samuel Grant to Uncle & Aunt January 1, 1859

to Juliana November 30, 1863

Maggie to Mariel Clapham Gere November 17, 1864

Sarah Carson to Mariel Clapham Gere April 17, 1868

January 1, 1878

Grace Mason to Mariel Clapham Gere August 20, 1880

May 9, 1884

Hennie to Mariel Clapham Gere September 20, 1871

October 17, 1871

January 1, 1872

May 15, 1872

June 24, 1872

July 16, 1872

August 9, 1872

December 25, 1872

April 19, 1873

June 15, 1874

July 23, 1875

October 17, 1879

June 3, 1880

October 12, 1880

December 21, 1880

December 3, 1883

January 19, 1884

September 21, 1889

January 18, 1891

November 1, 1891

Newman to Mariel Clapham Gere July 26, 1862

August 4, 1862

June 27, 1864

June 17, 1865


15

October 16, 1866

Minnie Brown to Mariel Clapham Gere December 17, 1871

Kate to Mariel Clapham Gere April 23, 1865

August 25, 1865

October 2, 1865

March 16, 1867

October 16, 1870

July 24, 1871

August 27, 1871

February 27, 1881

July 23, 1884

March 30, 1887

January 9, 1888

January 13, 1888

October 22, 1889

November 2, 1889

November 24, 1891

June 25, 1894

March 19, 1896

October 27, 1904

J.N. Hanke to Mariel Clapham Gere November 16, 1864

Cecelia to Mariel Clapham Gere September 19, 1871

November 13, 1904

Violet Butler to Mariel Clapham Gere June 1, 1884

Nell to Mariel Clapham Gere January 14, 1872

March 10, 1872

July 21, 1872

August 27, 1872

October 27, 1872

April 11, 1874

October 11, 1904

Mary to Mariel Clapham Gere July 21, 1872

April 20, 1873

July 13, 1895

September 29, 1899

Ellen Pratt to Mariel Clapham Gere May 5, 1872

Hattie to Mariel Clapham Gere April 23, 1873


16

October 13, 1899

Hattie to Mariel Clapham Gere September 30, 1904

April 15, 1905

September 26, 1906

M.R. McConnell to Mariel Clapham Gere May 16, 1888

December 10, 1889

August 8, 1898

January 2, 1899

October 11, 1899

December 15, 1899

February 18, 1900

April 17, 1900

April 27, 1900

May 17, 1900

September 18, 1901

Carrie Renfrew to Mariel Clapham Gere July 6, 1871

April 27, 1873

July 14, 1892

R.O. Phillips to Mariel Clapham Gere January 25, 1890

December 5, 1891

September 14, 1898

Mrs. John Briggs to Mariel Clapham Gere February 22, 1893

Mariel to Mother (Mariel C. Gere) October 2, 1889

Lou to Mariel Clapham Gere February 10, 1890

Rachel Taylor to Mariel Clapham Gere December 24, 1891

December 27, 1898

Mary Robbins to Mariel Clapham Gere July 1, 1896

George Sheldon to Mariel Clapham Gere October 17, 1896

Lizzie Struve to Mariel Clapham Gere March 18, 1896

Marie Allen to Mariel Clapham Gere October 8, 1896

Charles G. Dawes to Mariel Clapham Gere August 10, 1899

Ola B. Campbell to Mariel Clapham Gere December 27, 1899


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Linda Axtell to Mariel Clapham Gere August 7, 1899

M. J. Phillips to Mariel Clapham Gere July 29, 1884

December 1899

May 2, 1900

June 3, 1900

July 22, 1900

December 29, 1901

September 18, 1905

September 24, 1905

January 28, 1906

December 10, 1908

May 6, 1909

July 19, 1909

June 2, 1911

December 20, 1911

Helen Fling to Mariel Clapham Gere October 20, 1904

J.D. Calhoun to Mariel Clapham Gere October 4, 1904

Ernest Holmes to Mariel Clapham Gere October 8, 1904

Bessie Bradley to Mariel Clapham Gere October 23, 1904

Carrie Reed to Mariel Clapham Gere October 11, 1904

Edgar Dudley to Mariel Clapham Gere October 3, 1904

Laura Leming to Mariel Clapham Gere November 3, 1904

W.J. Bryan to Mariel Clapham Gere October 2, 1904

David H. Mercer to Mariel Clapham Gere October 4, 1904

G.H. Gere to Mariel Clapham Gere October 20, 1904

E.J. Burkett to Mariel Clapham Gere October 1, 1904

Harriett G. Harris to Mariel Clapham Gere October 2, 1904

Fletcher Wharton to Mariel Clapham Gere November 8, 1904

Jessie Harris to Mariel Clapham Gere October 11, 1904

Mary Nelson to Mariel Clapham Gere October 17, 1904


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Lydia Butler to Mariel Clapham Gere October 9, 1904

Charlotte Norton to Mariel Clapham Gere October 12, 1904

Frances Dawes to Mariel Clapham Gere April 24, 1904

October 1, 1904

October 14, 1904

December 23, 1904

John White to Mariel Clapham Gere December 13, 1904

Frank Billings to Mariel Clapham Gere December 9, 1904

A.R. Benton to Mariel Clapham Gere October 15, 1904

Mr. & Mrs. T.M. Hodgman to Mariel Clapham Gere October 2, 1904

Clara Ogden to Mariel Clapham Gere January 26, 1904

February 22, 1904

J. Stuart Dales to Mariel Clapham Gere November 1, 1904

Edith Hamlin to Mariel Clapham Gere October 10, 1904

Thomas Page Grant to Mariel Clapham Gere December 11, 1904

Harmon Bross to Mariel Clapham Gere October 1, 1904

John Hewitt to Mariel Clapham Gere October 19, 1904

May 29, 1905

Mary Dudley to Mariel Clapham Gere October 3, 1904

Verdie to Mariel Clapham Gere October 1, 1904

October 20, 1907

January 24, 1910

July 16, 1911

Robert W. Furnas to Mariel Clapham Gere October 3, 1904

Cora Dorr to Mariel Clapham Gere October 7, 1904

Cornelia Ladd to Mariel Clapham Gere October 3, 1904

A. Bruce Coffrath to Mariel Clapham Gere October 9, 1904


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Will Owen Jones to Mariel Clapham Gere July 15, 1905

July 19, 1905

August 25, 1905

July 30, 1908

February 13, 1912

Lily Rhodes to Mariel Clapham Gere June 1, 1905

Lucy Wade to Mariel Clapham Gere October 25, 1905

Helen Weston to Mariel Clapham Gere November 29, 1905

A.H. Wiatt to Mariel Clapham Gere September 23, 1905

R.R. Owens to Mariel Clapham Gere May 1, 1911

Jay Barrett to Mariel Clapham Gere October 21, 1905

Jean to Mariel Clapham Gere September 19, 1906

Edith Jones to Mariel Clapham Gere August 27, 1907

Maysie to Mariel Clapham Gere April 25, 1907

Lawrence to Mariel Clapham Gere August 28, 1907

Kate Miller Mariel Clapham Gere March 8, 1906

Anna Bishop to Mariel Clapham Gere December 30, 1910

Robert Mills to Mariel Clapham Gere September 1, 1907

Bobs to Mariel Clapham Gere January 8, 1911

Annie Miller to Mariel Clapham Gere September 9, 1909

Charles H. Gere to Julia October 6, 1858

to George April 17, 1896

to Mother August 5, 1858

July 4, 1859

March 9, 1859

February 18, 1860

April 6, 1860

June 1, 1860

July 12, 1860


20

August 27, 1860

Charles H. Gere to Mother October 14, 1860

June 8, 1865

November 30, 1867

January 26, 1868

April 24, 1868

April 1, 1869

July 18, 1869

February 14, 1871

May 20, 1871

September 3, 1871

June 4, 1874

to Jack December 3, 1860

to Hennie July 9, 1872

Father to Nellie December 8, 1889

July 18, 1892

July 26, 1892

Father to Mariel October 9, 1896

Charles H. Gere to Mariel Clapham Gere January 22, 1869

February 14, 1869

March 28, 1869

April 1, 1869

April 8, 1869

April 11, 1869

April 16, 1869

April 22, 1869

April 25, 1869

May 2, 1869

May 5, 1869

May 9, 1869

May 12, 1869

May 16, 1869

May 20, 1869

May 26, 1869

June 4, 1869

June 10, 1869

June 13, 1869

June 19, 1869

June 20, 1869

June 22, 1869

June 27, 1869

July 1, 1869

July 7, 1869


21

July 15, 1869

Charles H. Gere to Mariel Clapham Gere July 18, 1869

July 20, 1869

August 1, 1869

August 8, 1869

August 22, 1869

August 26, 1869

August 29, 1869

September 12, 1869

September 19, 1869

September 24, 1869

September 26, 1869

October 3, 1869

October 7, 1869

October 10, 1869

October 14, 1869

October 17, 1869

October 24, 1869

November 4, 1869

November 7, 1869

November 14, 1869

December 5, 1869

December 12, 1869

December 26, 1869

January 2, 1870

January 22, 1870

February 6, 1870

February 13, 1870

February 20, 1870

February 23, 1870

February 26, 1870

March 6, 1870

March 13, 1870

March 20, 1870

March 27, 1870

April 16, 1870

May 1, 1870

May 15, 1870

May 22, 1870

May 23, 1870

May 29, 1870

June 5, 1870

June 8, 1870

June 12, 1870

June 26, 1870

June 27, 1870


22

July 3, 1870

Charles H. Gere to Mariel Clapham Gere July 11, 1870

July 19, 1870

July 21, 1870

July 24, 1870

July 30, 1870

August 7, 1870

August 14, 1870

August 21, 1870

August 28, 1870

August 30, 1870

September 6, 1870

October 26, 1870

February 1, 1871

February 5, 1871

February 14, 1871

February 16, 1871

February 19, 1871

February 27, 1871

March 5, 1871

March 12, 1871

March 19, 1871

March 25, 1871

March 29, 1871

April 2, 1871

April 8, 1871

April 23, 1871

April 26, 1871

April 30, 1871

May 4, 1871

May 7, 1871

May 11, 1871

May 19, 1871

May 21, 1871

May 28, 1871

June 1, 1871

June 5, 1871

June 10, 1871

June 16, 1871

June 18, 1871

June 25, 1871

July 6, 1871

July 9, 1871

July 14, 1871

July 17, 1871

July 20, 1871


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July 24, 1871

Charles H. Gere to Mariel Clapham Gere August 4, 1871

August 23, 1871

August 26, 1871

September 14, 1871

January 29, 1874

May 17, 1881

May 20, 1881

May 22, 1881

June 3, 1881

September 17, 1881

June 6, 1884

June 9, 1884

July 24, 1884

July 25, 1884

July 30, 1884

December 7, 1887

October 18, 1889

November 16, 1889

June 7, 1892

August 14, 1892

August 20, 1892

June 7, 1893

October 3, 1893

July 16, 1897

August 26, 1900

Mariel Clapham Gere to Hennie January 15, 1872

April 14, 1873

January 19, 1875

October 24, 1875

June 14, 1876

October 19, 1876

April 1, 1877

January 20, 1878

October 14, 1880

April 16, 1883

December 13, 1883

to Mother February 23, 1872

May 20, 1872

May 24, 1872

April 14, 1873

to Mrs. Phillips December 13, 1905

Mother to Nellie September 5, 1899

August 24, 1900


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August 26, 1901

Mother to Nellie October 28, 1902

January 12, 1903

January 26, 1903

February 18, 1903

August 23, 1903

July 15, 1906

April 13, 1908

June 1, 1908

June 2, 1908

September 24, 1911

September 25, 1911

September 30, 1911

October 2, 1911

February 9, 1912

Mother to Mariel July 25, 1890

August 1, 1890

December 21, 1896

August 27, 1899

September 6, 1899

October 24, 1899

April 11, 1900

August 16, 1900

September 23, 1905

July 7, 1906

July 8, 1906

July 26, 1906

July 20, 1907

September 15, 1907

September 20, 1907

July 7, 1911

September 25, 1911

September 27, 1911

September 29, 1911

October 17, 1911

Mother to daughters December 20, 1895

May 29, 1897

March 3, 1900

January 1906

July 5, 1906

July 10, 1906

August 5, 1906

September 1, 1907

May 16, 1908


25

June 24, 1908

Mother to daughers June 26, 1908

September 23, 1911

October 19, 1911

Mother to Frances June 26, 1898

July 19, 1898

September 18, 1899

August 24, 1900

August 8, 1901

August 3, 1903

August 15, 1904

September 21, 1905

July 6, 1906

July 20, 1906

October 20, 1907

April 18, 1908

May 20, 1908

June 30, 1908

April 6, 1909

July 11, 1909

July 26, 1909

September 9, 1909

September 20, 1910

September 5, 1911

October 20, 1911

February 5, 1912

February 8, 1912

to Frances & Nellie July 14, 1907

August 6, 1907

to Ellen September 28, 1911

October 1, 1911

October 2, 1911

October 3, 1911

Pamelia to Nelson January 1, 1861

December 26, 1861

to sister Juliana March 7, 1866

May 20, 1867

April 28, 1868

December 29, 1868

April 3, 1871

January 29, 1872

May 28, 1872

June 20, 1875


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John to Hank April 21, 1861

John to Hank February 8, 1863

May 1, 1863

Julia Grant to Aunt Juliana March 3, 1866

December 22, 1867

Mother to George February 19, 1866

Aunt Hennie to Mariel June 21, 1895

Mary Stetson to Mariel December 8, 1887

Lydia to Mariel July 30, 1884

Nellie to Mariel February 2, 1890

November 18, 1899

January 5, 1903

Ellen Dickinson to Mariel October 14, 1890

Falls City, NE, School Board to Mariel July 1, 1897

May 29, 1900

Frances to Mariel October 1, 1899

Dorothy Canfield to Mariel June 14, 1899

June 10, 1909

Helen Harwood to Mariel December 16, 1899

Edith Striker to Mariel July 21, 1900

Ned to Mariel April 29, 1900

C.H. Morrill to Mariel October 25, 1904

Jean to Mariel November 23, 1906

February 15, 1907

January 7, 1908

December 14, 1908

January 1, 1909

January 8, 1909

January 10, 1928

July 12, 1928

January 8, 1933


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George to Mariel May 15, 1906

January 3, 1908

March 31, 1908

January 16, 1910

May 24, 1912

October 25, 1915

December 18, 1919

Winifred to Mariel February 28, 1906

Mabel to Mariel January 16, 1907

Laura to Mariel March 19, 1907

May 5, 1941

Robert Mills to Mariel September 1, 1907

Verdie to Mariel November 22, 1908

James W. Dawes to Mariel October 14, 1910

Will Owen Jones to Mariel July 29, 1919

June 15, 1924

September 12, 1926

July 31, 1927

Florence to Mariel January 19, 1920

Ozro Woods to Mariel April 4, 1918

March 7, 1919

May 16, 1919

April 6, 1920

June 15, 1920

August 9, 1936

Louis Juliand to Mariel July 25, 1923

Grace Hyatt to Mariel July 26, 1928

July 10, 1934

April 6, 1938

Laurence to Frances September 10, 1905

April 13, 1908

July 9, 1909

August 3, 1911


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Ellen to Frances September 20, 1905

August 30, 1910

September 26, 1910

R.M. Cushman to Frances April 17, 1905

Jean to Frances July 9, 1906

July 10, 1907

February 10, 1908

June 5, 1911

May 6, 1912

October 14, 1912

January 13, 1913

March 1917

Laura to Frances January 5, 1907

Claire to Frances January 5, 1907

Maysie to Francis April 13, 1908

Frieda to Frances January 4, 1908

April 13, 1908

February 29, 1912

April 4, 1916

July 27, 1918

Bettie Marley to Frances October 12, 1905

January 1, 1907

March 5, 1907

March 15, 1907

June 19, 1907

April 6, 1908

December 28, 1908

April 30, 1912

April 7, 1913

October 24, 1915

August 13, 1917

August 27, 1917

Bobs to Frances February 5, 1908

April 6, 1908

September 16, 1908

October 5, 1908

November 10, 1908


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December 6, 1908

Bobs to Frances April 11, 1909

July 29, 1909

September 24, 1909

January 6, 1910

April 24, 1910

December 10, 1910

December 9, 1911

June 12, 1912

December 18, 1912

March 25, 1913

February 8, 1915

Addie Lippincott to Frances May 20, 1908

Linda Lowery to Frances August 3, 1909

Caroline Funkhouser to Frances August 3, 1912

Florence to Frances August 21, 1918

Cecil to Frances & Ellen November 10, 1919

Dorothy Canfield to Ellen October 13, 1898

George to Ellen October 22, 1915

Hattie to Ellen December 19, 1906

Bobs to Ellen June 19, 1908

Maysie to Ellen April 13, 1908

Laurence to Ellen June 7, 1908

Ozro Woods to Ellen April 19, 1919

Will Owen Jones to Ellen July 11, 1907

July 23, 1908

August 7, 1914

November 18, 1919

July 3, 1920

December 16, 1921

Ellen Hedlund to Gere girls February 25, 1941

Edith Striker to Gere girls April 4, 1912


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Arletta Monatt to Gere girls April 18, 1912

Linen Circle Church of Holy Trinity to Gere girls April 19, 1912

Mr. & Mrs. C.H. Morrill to Gere girls April 11, 1912

Frances Gilbert to Gere girls April 6, 1912

Verdie to Gere girls April 19, 1912

July 22, 1912

Charlotte Norton to Gere girls May 30, 1912

Winona Sawyer to Gere girls April 20, 1912

Kate to Gere girls April 18, 1912

L. Funkhouser to Gere girls April 8, 1912

Anna Badger to Gere girls April 7, 1912

Eleanor Brace to Gere girls May 6, 1912

Lydia A. Holmes to Gere girls February 27, 1912

April 29, 1912

May 14, 1917

December 27, 1917

October 7, 1926

October 26, 1934

December 31, 1936

A.R. Weldon to Gere girls April 5, 1912

Frank to Gere girls April 19, 1912

May 22, 1912

J.D. Calhoun to Gere girls April 11, 1912

Fannie M. Anderson to Gere girls April 8, 1912

Walter Billings to Gere girls April 14, 1912

Effie Scott to Gere girls April 18, 1912

Jennie Hodgman to Gere girls April 11, 1912

Anna Bishop to Gere girls January 3, 1914

January 6, 1915

January 18, 1918

January 27, 1918

Florence to Gere girls August 26, 1915

January 16, 1918

April 11, 1918

December 26, 1918

May 19, 1919

January 14, 1920

December 27, 1929

August 3, 1930

June 3, 1931

June 29, 1933

May 30, 1938

November 8, 1941

February 25, 1942

June 1, 1942

November 24, 1944


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Julia D. Young to Gere girls September 24, 1916

J.C. Seacrest to Gere girls February 5, 1917

January 10, 1938

April 14, 1938

May 21, 1938

May 27, 1938

August 22, 1938

September 26, 1939

June 3, 1954

Ozro Woods to Gere girls October 8, 1917

January 28, 1918

October 13, 1918

October 22, 1918

November 9, 1918

November 24, 1918

February 27, 1919

August 10, 1919

Ray to Gere girls April 10, 1912

March 3, 1918

July 3, 1918

September 2, 1918

February 4, 1919

March 22, 1919

April 2, 1919

June 26, 1919

September 10, 1919

October 11, 1919

February 28, 1920

January 6, 1921

September 18, 1924

January 7, 1925

August 3, 1925

June 1, 1926

June 8, 1926

December 31, 1927

December 22, 1928

July 24, 1929

January 6, 1930

March 16, 1930

February 22, 1931

January 3, 1932

January 15, 1932

December 21, 1934

January 12, 1937

June 9, 1937

January 5, 1941


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Mary Harris to Gere girls December 4, 1918

Charlotte Tracey to Gere girls December 17, 1918

Mary King to Gere girls January 10, 1927

Hazel Clark to Gere girls July 28, 1918

April 18, 1941

April 25, 1942

March 4, 1943

John Gere to Gere girls September 15, 1937

July 6, 1939

June 3, 1943

Will Owen Jones to Gere girls August 18, 1918

August 28, 1918

July 17, 1919

February 29, 1920

July 31, 1926

September 10, 1927

Edith to Gere girls August 13, 1920

Harrison Gere to Gere girls February 18, 1918

October 26, 1918

December 5, 1918

December 14, 1918

March 26, 1919

June 23, 1919

December 15, 1926

January 1, 1928

January 1, 1930

August 18, 1931

January 11, 1932

September 3, 1933

September 18, 1933

November 7, 1936

July 14, 1937

December 15, 1947

Alberta to Gere girls October 30, 1936

January 7, 1939

January 1, 1943

Grace Hyatt to Gere girls August 10, 1928

August 29, 1929

June 22, 1930

July 28, 1936

Minnie to Gere girls January 4, 1929

January 12, 1929

F.C. Kenyon to Gere girls December 29, 1938

Addison E. Sheldon to Gere girls June 1, 1938

Mariel to Mildred Bennett (photostatic copy) February 6, 1956


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Dorothy Canfield Fisher to Mariel August 29, 1905

March 22, 1919

July 8, 1951

December 31, 1951

(and Frances) January 14, 1953

February 1, 1954

(and Frances) Undates Christmas card

to Louis Pound (as cover letter) July 17, 1951

gere family papers: 1819-1954 size: 19 boxes - history

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