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Series 1: CORRESPONDENCE
Series 2: MANUSCRIPTS
Series 3: GENERAL

• Series 1: CORRESPONDENCE
• Box 1:
• Folder 1: Correspondence
• ALS from Sarah E. (Mrs. H. D.) Sherman to T. E. Booth, February 4 - 1902
  regarding the Secrest family
• TLS from Buel R. Wood to T. E. Booth, February 6 - 1911
  regarding the Chauncey Wood family along with some notes by Booth plus a copy of Abe Wood's military record
• TLS (copy) from J. A. Green to Samuel Calvin, November 30 - 1895
  regarding quarries in and around Stone City
• TLS from M. W. Herrick to T. E. Booth, May 20 - 1911
  regarding early day lawyers in Jones County
• TLS from A. E. Byerly to T. E. Booth, December 27 - 1924
  regarding John Matthews, an early resident of Maquoketa and Anamosa plus a newspaper article from the Guelph (Ont.) paper
• ALS from D. C. Wood to T. E. Booth, August 5 - 1899
  regarding the Anamosa bridge
• Series 2: MANUSCRIPTS
• Box 1:
• Folder 2: Manuscripts
• AMs on early bridges in Jones County
• AMs, "The Early Schools of Anamosa and Jones County," by Mr. and Mrs. T.E. Booth - 1922
  22 leaves
• TMs, "Pioneer Churches of Iowa," by Gertrude Delevan (Mrs. T. E.) Booth - 1917
  6 leaves
• TMs, "Notes on Early Marriages in Jones County," by T. E. Booth
  1 page
• TMs (copy), "The Old Mill," by T.E. Booth
  1 leaf, along with some handwritten notes regarding the old mill property and its changes
• AD Treasurer's account book for Anamosa Lodge 217 - 1895-1899
• Series 3: GENERAL
• Box 1:
• Manual of the First Congregational Church and Society, Anamosa, Iowa. Revised and adopted, January - 1875
  pages 11-14 missing
• Maps of Jones County, Iowa, Townships, in one volume.
• Photographs of early Jones County Pioneers (8).
• Xerox copies of newspaper clippings relating to the Booth family and their close friends.
• Scrapbook regarding the W.C.T.U., Band of Hope, Flower Mission (pages 1-20), and obituaries (pages 21-155).