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1825-1877, undated
GUSN-175477
Series XII. Papers of Edward Henry Little (1819-1877), 1825-1877, undated, includes letters, account books, receipts, legal documents, and miscellaneous materials document his farming operations through lists of milk sold to various customers, fees received from lending out an Ayrshire Bull, accounts of thousands of bushels of onions sold, bills for farm equipment, horse-shoeing fees and so on. Included in his public service papers is evidence that Edward H. Little held just about every office in the Town of Newbury, including Selectman, Overseer of the Poor, and Assessor. The series is arranged in eight subseries according to material type.
farms
highways
agriculture
organizations (groups)
graveyards
insurance
barns
municipal government
correspondence
inventories
account books
checks (bank checks)
receipts (financial records)
deeds
insurance policies
visiting cards
notebooks
tax records
financial records
legal documents
Family papers (110 folders)
Paper finding aid available in Library and Archives
MS016
Little family papers
1986
MS016.12
Bequest
Newbury (Athens county, Ohio) [deserted settlement]
Newburyport (Essex county, Massachusetts)
Little, Edward Henry, 1819-1877 (Correspondent)
correspondence
inventories
account books
checks (bank checks)
receipts (financial records)
deeds
insurance policies
visiting cards
notebooks
tax records
financial records
legal documents
Boardman, Offin
Essex Agricultural Society (Mass.)
Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals
tax assessments
Civil War
livestock
Cows
Newburyport (Mass.). Overseers of Poor
Civil War (1861-1865)
Subgroup
Edward Henry Little was born in 1819 and died in 1877. He married Catherine Adams Little (1823-1922). Mr. Little was a very successful farmer and a man of much ability, owned the best farm in Newbury, was prominent in town affairs, a director in Newburyport First National bank, and trustee of the Savings Bank and the Essex Agricultural Society. Edward Henry Little was not just a farmer and public servant. He was a real estate investor, mortgage lender, bank officer and part owner in the 1870s of the ship Exporter. His obituary (Newburyport Herald, March 1, 1877) noted that he was "a man of good judgment, liberal towards the poor, and in a different sense of the word liberal in politics and in religion."
This subgroup is arranged as follows:1. Personal papers, 1825-1877, undated2. Public service papers, 1856-1879, undated
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