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Sam P. Davis Papers

 Collection
Identifier: NC587
Abstract

Includes materials by or about Sam Davis and his family, the Corbett-Fitzsimmons boxing match, Thomas Fitch, Thomas P. Brown, Henry R. Mighels, Robert O'Brien, Theodore Winters, Lake Tahoe, and the Western States Exploration Company.,Microfilm contains materials from family scrapbook.

Dates: 1865-1960
Found in: University of Nevada, Reno. Special Collections Department

Henry R. and Nellie Mighels Correspondence

 Collection
Identifier: 93-05
Abstract

Husband and wife Henry "Harry" Rust (-1879) and Nellie Verrill Mighels (1844-1945) were from Norway, Maine. Harry became owner of the Carson (City) Daily Appeal in 1865. They married in 1866 after a lengthy courtship by mail. The collection primarily contains correspondence between Nellie and Henry before their marriage.

Dates: 1863-1878
Found in: University of Nevada, Reno. Special Collections Department

Soroptimist International of Carson City Records

 Collection
Identifier: 96-48
Abstract

Soroptimist International Carson City is a Carson City, Nevada-based service organization. The collection includes correspondence, programs, newspaper clippings, scrapbooks, photographs, and a book published by the organization, "The Past Lies Here: A Comment Concerning the Women of Carson City and Nevada."

Dates: 1957-1995
Found in: University of Nevada, Reno. Special Collections Department

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Boxing matches -- Nevada 1
Carson City (Nev.) -- History 1
Carson daily appeal 1
Norway (Me. : Town) -- History 1
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United States -- Personal narratives -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 1
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Mighels, Henry R. (Henry Rust), 1830-1879 2
Bray, Mildred, 1892- 1
Brown, Thomas P. (Thomas Pollok), 1879- 1
Clapp, Hannah Keziah, 1824-1908 1
Corbett, James J., 1866-1933 1
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Crowell, Lucy Davis, 1881-1978 1
Davis, Robert P. 1
Davis, Sam P. (Sam Post), 1850-1918 1
Fitch, Thomas, 1838-1923 1
Fitzsimmons, Robert James, 1863-1917 1
Gleason, Martha Fredericks, 1874- 1
Mighels family 1
Mighels, Roy R., 1872-1960 1
O'Brien, Robert 1
Raffetto, Bertha, 1885-1952 1
Soroptimist International of Carson City 1
Verrall family 1
Western States Exploration Company 1
Winters, Theodore, 1823-1906 1
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