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[Identification of item], Nycum Family Papers, David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library
The Nycum Family Papers were received by the David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library from 1947-1948.
Processed by Rubenstein Library staff
Encoded by Ted Holt and Paula Jeannet Mangiafico, August 2008
Accession 48-223 is described in this finding aid.
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Papers of John Nycum and John Q. Nycum include the letters of Philip Weisel concerning family matters and the sale of mineral water, and the correspondence and papers of several members of the Nycum family concerning the management of general merchandise businesses; business conditions; family matters; and the Civil War, including descriptions of camp life in Pennsylvania and Louisiana and the Confederate raid on Chambersburg, Pennsylvania, 1864. The collection also contains bills, receipts, legal papers, and miscellaneous items, including advertisements, circulars, political material, and reports, 1850-1856, of several teachers in Bedford County, Pennsylvania, listing pupils and their records. Volumes include mercantile daybooks and memorandum books of John Nycum, Simon Nycum, and Philip Weisel; record books of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Ray's Hill, Pennsylvania; account books of public schools of Bedford County; and a mercantile ledger of D. Eshleman and Company.
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