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XOE_CPNWS0167Holcombe
Holcombe family
Holcombe family
correspondence
1884-1913
.5 linear feet
This collection consists of
correspondence between members of the Holcombe family from Whatcom County,
Washington.
Collection materials are in
English.
The Holcombe family moved to Washington State in 1909, where Rev.
Holcombe served as pastor of Ferndale Church from September 1909 to 1913.
Family members include Mama [Mrs. S. A. Holcombe], Mabel Lucy, Corabel A.,
Chester A., Fannie V., Cyril R., Grace, Helen Lucile, Elsie, Willard, and Ruth
Julia.
The Holcombe family correspondence dates from 1884 to 1913. The bulk
of the letters are between Reverend Gilbert T. Holcombe and other family
members living in various locations throughout the Midwest.
The collection is open to the public.
Holcombe family correspondence, Center for Pacific Northwest Studies, Western Libraries Archives & Special Collections, Western
Washington University, Bellingham WA 98225-9123.
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Donated by Mrs. Eicholz (no first name given) in 1997.
This collection is indexed under the following headings in the online
catalog. Researchers desiring materials about related topics, persons, or
places should search the catalog using these headings.
Holcombe,
Gilbert T.--Correspondence
Holcombe family--Archives
Whatcom
County (Wash.)--History--Sources
Frontier and pioneer
life--Washington (State)--Whatcom County--History--Sources
Pioneers--Washington
(State)--Whatcom County--History--Sources
Home
and Family
Pioneers
The following section contains a detailed listing of the materials in
the collection.
1/1
Correspondence - Rev. Holcombe to
family from Ulysses Butler County, Nebraska - comments on Lincoln and the
county.
1884
1/2
Correspondence - Rev. Holcombe to
Mrs. Holcombe from Cameron, Missouri.
1887
1/3
Correspondence - letterhead from
the American Home Missionary Society (Rev. Holcombe is named as the State
Evangelist for Missouri), letterhead from Saratoga Springs, New York - Rev.
Holcombe comments on other preachers' styles, describes Saratoga
Springs.
1888
1/4
Correspondence - Mabel Holcombe to
Mrs. Holcombe from Damers Grove (?) (near Oak Park (?)) - describes Damers
Grove and family members.
1889
1/5
Correspondence - Mrs. Holcombe to
Mabel Holcombe.
1891
1/6
Correspondence - family to Rev.
Holcombe from Kalamazoo, Ann Arbor, Michigan; Rev. Holcombe to family from
Atkinson, Illinois.
1892
1/7
Correspondence - Rev. Holcombe to
family from St. Louis, Missouri; family to Rev. Holcombe - describes cold
weather, sickness in the community, money problems; Mrs. Holcombe to son -
describes her exhaustion, Christmas preparations; Mabel to Rev. Holcombe -
describes domestic arrangements, Christmas shopping; Rev. Holcombe to family on
letterhead from Rochester German Insurance Company, Rochester, New
York.
1892
1/8
Correspondence - Mrs. Holcombe to
Rev. Holcombe - worries about money problems, looking for work; Rev. Holcombe
to famly on letterhead from Children's Home Society in St. Louis (Rev. Holcombe
listed as Financial Agent).
1893
1/9
Correspondence - describes
traveling circus and parade, family sickness, financial woes.
1893
1/10
Correspondence - describes domestic
chores, foodstuffs; Rev. Holcombe on letterhead of the Exchange and Savings
Bank, Spring Valley, Wisconsin - looking at purchasing land.
1894
1/11
Correspondence - letterhead from
St. Louis, Missouri and Sycamore, Illinois; Rev. Holcombe from Clear Lake, Polk
County, Wisconsin - comments on preaching engagements; Rev. Holcombe from
Baltimore, Maryland - disapproves of seeing a woman riding a horse astride;
Mrs. Holcombe to Mr. Ernest Clarage - requests employment recommendation for
her son.
1895
1/12
Correspondence - letterhead from
the Children's Home Society in Baltimore, Maryland (Rev. Holcombe in the
heading); Cyril Holcombe (son) from Humphry, Arkansas - talks about
malaria.
1896
1/13
Correspondence - Cora Holcombe
(daughter) to Rev. Holcombe - speak of clothes, family appears to be living in
Olivet, Michigan where Mabel worked as a waitress at the Club House, Harbor
Point, Michigan (summer?) and attended school in the fall.
1897
1/14
Correspondence - describing that
Mabel very ill and there are continuing money troubles.
1898
1/15
Correspondence - letterhead from
the Children's Home Society in St. Louis, Missouri (Rev. Holcombe listed as
Financial Agent).
1898
1/16
Correspondence.
1899
1/17
Correspondence.
1899
1/18
Postcards - W. H. Holcombe in
Seattle, Washington to Mrs. Holcombe in Ferndale, Washington - images of the
Central Building and YMCA Building in Seattle, appears that Grace Holcombe
(daughter) is living in Seattle.
1910
1/19
Postcards - C. (Corabel?) Holcombe
to Mrs. Holcombe in Ferndale, Washington.
1912
1/20
Postcards - various Holcombe
children to Mrs. Holcombe in Ferndale, Washington - Crater Lake, Oregon prune
orchard, valentine.
1913
1/21
Correspondence
1913