Search

Back to top

Search Constraints

Start Over You searched for: Creator Sligh family. Remove constraint Creator: Sligh family. Names Albert Wells Remove constraint Names: Albert Wells Names Groesbeck, Alexander J. (Alexander Joseph), 1873-1953. Remove constraint Names: Groesbeck, Alexander J. (Alexander Joseph), 1873-1953. Subjects Immigrants -- United States. Remove constraint Subjects: Immigrants -- United States.

Search Results

Collection

Sligh Family Papers, 1842-2012

36 linear feet (in 41 boxes) — 31 oversize volumes — 1 oversize folder

Online
Grand Rapids, Michigan family, involved in furniture making and other businesses, also active in local state and Republican Party politics and businessmen's associations. Papers include family papers and correspondence, business records, scrapbooks and visual materials.

The Sligh family collection consists of the personal and business papers of the four generations of Slighs mentioned in the biographical introduction: James W. Sligh, Charles R. Sligh, Charles R. Sligh, Jr., and Robert L. Sligh. Although there is some overlap, the files have been arranged into seven series, one for each of these three Slighs, one for the Sligh Furniture Company and related family businesses, and one each for Newspaper clippings and Scrapbooks, and Visual Materials.