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Date(s)
- 1873-1978 (Creation)
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Extent and medium
102pp
Context area
Archival history
Jean C. Young, Newtownards, provided the Adam Scott Cameron letters to Kerby A. Miller for duplication and publishing per her letter of 19 May 1978.
Immediate source of acquisition or transfer
Content and structure area
Scope and content
Materials pertaining to the Adam Scott Cameron letters written between 1873 and 1877. According to the donor of the letters, Adam Scott Cameron emigrated from Ballyclare, County Antrim with his mother and siblings when he was young, sometime in the 1850s-1860s. Cameron eventually became an engineer and banker living in New York, and co-patented the Sewell and Cameron Steam Pump in 1864.
The series contains: typed transcripts of the donor letter sent to Kerby A. Miller along with the original letter; typed transcripts of the Cameron letters along with photocopies of the original letters; and a typed transcript of Cameron's obituary and photocopy of the original.