Archive Record
Metadata
Object Name |
Album, Autograph |
Title |
Autograph album of William G. Gross |
Scope & Content |
-Autograph album of William G. Gross (1868-1948), of Fountainville, Bucks County, 1889-1890. Contains rhymes, short poems, and signatures of his friends, relatives, neighbors, and even relatives/aquaintances from out-of-state Mennonite communities. (Added to Hist. Mss. 389 -Hannah Overholt Gross autograph album) |
Object ID # |
2023.52 |
Year Range from |
1889 |
Year Range to |
1890 |
Manuscript Collection # |
Hist. Mss. 389 |
Notes |
Originally owned and used as a young man by William G. Gross, 1889-1890. Was later owned by his daughter Emma O. Gross (wife Wallace H. Derstein) of Hatfield and Souderton, PA, and later by her son Wallace G. Derstein (d. 2006), and last by his wife RuthAnn Derstein (the donor). |
Source |
Gift of RuthAnn Derstein (from the papers of Wallace G. Derstein, dec'd) |
People |
Gross, William G., 1868-1948 |