Description:
Leather-bound book titled, "The Life and Essays of Benjamin Franklin, by Himself", which was owned by Dennis Stebbins (1778-1842) of Deerfield, inscribed in pencil "Dennis Stebbins". The book, which was purchased at the Allen family auction in Olean, NY, July 1982, descended through the Allen-Stebbins family. The book came to the three Allen sisters - Ruth, Mary and Agnes - of Olean, NY, through the family of their father, Edmund Eliel Allen (1855-1939) of Deerfield, who married Harriett Burnett (1859-1947) of Springfield, Mass, and moved first to Buffalo and then Olean around 1888. His parents were Josiah (b. 1814) of Wapping and Mary Stebbins Allen (b. 1819), daughter of Dennis Stebbins, who married in 1853.
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