Box 1

Scope and Contents From the Collection: Included within the Eddy papers are legal papers dealing with William W. Whitney (1806‑1872), founder of Kipton, Ohio. Whitney moved from Binghamton, New York, to Camden in 1834, owned the land where the first railroad station was placed in the 1850s, and laid out the town of Kipton, within Camden Township, which he initially named Binghamton. Reuben Eddy was a friend, legal guardian, and then executor of Whitney's estate. (See History of Lorain County,...

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23 items. NY settlement, 1805-1819 (Financial and legal papers of John Eddy); 1819 account at dry goods store, Sheldon, NY; two deeds to land in Holland Purchase, Genesee County, NY.

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21 items. NY settlement, 1820-1830; financial notes of John Eddy; Sheldon School tax bill for 1820; bill for kitchen items 1827; notice to quit the land in township 7; Holland land purchase, 1829.

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12 items. Shoemaker's bill; recipe for rhematic drops; Nancy Eddy's school bill; dry goods bill; list of men owed money for farm labor.

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23 items. Correspondence and legal papers of Reuben Eddy; report of treasurer of Camden Schools, 1868; tax bills and correspondence regarding land in Mower County, Minnesota; guardianship of William Whitney (1806-1872).

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45 items. Correspondence and papers of Eddy-Ritzenthaler family, Kipton, Ohio; tax bills, deed to land in Mower County, Minnesota; will of Reuben Eddy (1877); letters in German.

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Three photographs and miscellaneous news clippings.