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Furniture industry and trade -- Michigan -- Grand Rapids

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Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

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Reubey S.T. Ferris recollections of William Haldane

 Collection
Identifier: Collection 012
Abstract This collection primarily contains the 1937 reminiscences of the donor, Reubey S. Tomlinson Ferris of Baldwinsville, New York. Reubey was said to be the adopted daughter of William Haldane (1807-1898), a Grand Rapids, Michigan pioneer. In actuality she was Haldaneā€™s niece by marriage. Deacon William Haldane is known as the father of the Grand Rapids furniture industry. In her remembrance, Mrs. Ferris describes living conditions in the Village and then Town of Grand Rapids circa...
Dates: 1837-1898