Whitmore Knaggs Family Papers, 1830, 1926, and undated
.25 cubic feet (in 1 box)
The collection biographical materials, accounts, correspondence, deeds and legal papers, tax receipts, wills, and photographic materials.
The collection includes family papers for several generations of Knaggs. Among them are a petition by George Knaggs for reimbursement of property damaged in the War of 1812; a silhouette of Whitmore Knaggs; tax receipts for land in Detroit, Mich., Lucas and Henry Counties, Ohio and Eldora, Kansas; an 1866 Toledo, Ohio census; and essay on epidemics in Toledo, undated (ca. late 18th century?); and a telegram from the mayor of Chicago, R. B. Mason about the distress caused by the Great Fire of 1871.