Description:
Hard-covered scrapbook with "SCRAP BOOK" in gilt stamped on the embossed, black front cover; "1822" in gilt on the leather-covered spine; and "CAROLINE & MARIA MOSELEY / 1822" in gilt on a black label on the inside front cover. Caroline (c.1800-1831) and Maria Moseley (1803-1861) filled the scrapbook with images, many framed with decorative borders, cut from a variety of sources, possibly included picture books published explicitly for scrapbook hobbyists and text blocks containing newspaper articles and verse. They may have started the scrapbook as a school project while attending Cherry Valley Female Academy and continued to add to it after they left the school. Subsequent generations continued the practice through the early 20th century so that the large book has an extensive grouping of programs, newspaper clippings, engravings, notes, photographs, etc. ranging in date from about 1795 through 1956. Born in Westfield, Massachusetts, Elizur Moseley (1765-1833) was the youngest of the 10 children of Daniel Mosely (1714-1777) and Anne Abbott Moseley (1721-1803). Elizur attended Yale College in 1786, studied medicine after graduation, married Caroline Harrison (1770-1822), and settled in Whitesboro, NY, around 1790. He was described as "the first physician, the first merchant, and the first postmaster of the place." The Moseleys had five surviving children, one son, William Abbott Moseley (1799-1877) who graduated from Yale in 1816, and four daughters: Mary Ann (b.c.1788-d.c.1865) who married Julius C. Guiteau (1793-1845) in 1814; Caroline (c.1800-1831) who married Roderick Norman Morrison (1800-1856) in 1825; Maria (1803-1861) who married Roderick Morrison after Caroline's death in 1831 and before 1838; and Eliza (1807-1878) who married Charles Valentine Morris (1802-1887) in 1831.
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