This collection is located on-site.
This collection has no restrictions.
The collection is representative of the activities of small businessmen in New Gloucester Maine and in the details of local government. Included are account books, business communications, letters, receipts, deeds, mortgates, personal and social correspondence of the Otis Nelson family, and letters of Lilly Nelson.
Cataloged and arranged.
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This collection is located on-site.
This collection has no restrictions.
Reproductions may be made for research purposes. The RBML maintains ownership of the physical material only. Copyright remains with the creator and his/her heirs. The responsibility to secure copyright permission rests with the patron.
Identification of specific item; Date (if known); Otis Nelson papers; Box and Folder; Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Columbia University Library.
Materials may have been added to the collection since this finding aid was prepared. Contact rbml@columbia.edu for more information.
Source of acquisition--Bancroft (Mrs. Jane Westerfield). Method of acquisition--Purchase; Date of acquisition--1954. Accession number--M-54.
Columbia University Libraries, Rare Book and Manuscript Library
Cataloged Christina Hilton Fenn 08/--/89.
June 2020 PDF replaced with full finding aid, YH
Otis Nelson was a businessman in the first quarter of the 19th century in New Gloucester and Minot, Maine. He apparently was in local politics serving for a time as selectman in the town of New Gloucester, and possibly in other capacities.
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