http://cgi.ebay.com/GREAT-letters-notes-Patterson-NJ-Hackensack-New-Jersey-/320637359665?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item4aa779d631There are some familiar-sounding surnames in this.
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This is a very interesting handwritten autograph book from the 1880s-1890s owned by a girl named Kate Vreeland from New Jersey, I believe. It is filled with many poems, a couple drawings, and many notes/letters written to Katie from her classmates. Most the classmates also signed their full names, dates and their hometowns, which are overwhelmingly from New Jersey especially Hackensack and Patterson, New Jersey.
Other classmates are from Columbus, Ohio, Maywood NJ, Westwood NJ, New London CT, Leonia NJ, Passaie NJ, Hoboken NJ, Newark Valley NY, Brooklyn NY, Mount Vernon NY, East Orange NJ. It would be interesting to figure out who these individuals are and what school they were attending together. Nice piece of New Jersey history that is a very unique record. Practically of the writing is legible in good shape. Some fraying on the more fragile pages and the pages are loose from the binding. Individual pages would look great framed as folk art, especially the pages with drawings.
I've typed out most of the locations and names below as best I can make them out, but only typed a couple of the poems and notes:
1890 First page says A merry Christmas to katie from Ida
Jan 3 91 JC Coore? Patterson NJ
2-23-93 Kate Vreeland [owner] In my album I invite you to write but tearing out pages I deem impolite
March 23, 1891 ...FS??Graham
Charles Post Oct 1891 Hackansck NJ
Jennie Mabie? Hackensack 1891
J.W. Paton Columbus Ohio Oct 1891
Oct 1891 Remember me long remember me forever remember the fun we have had in school together, your griend and schoolmate Emma Price, Maywood NJ
Ida Kirby
Katie-I've looked your album through and through to see what others have written for you and now I'll write that others may see the simple words remember me, your friend and schoolmate Albertha Westervelt, Hackensack, New Jersey
Dear Katie When our life in school shall be at an end please at times give a though to your loving friend, Addie Bates, Hackesack NJ 1891
Dear Katie...Fruit is soft as soon as ripened...love and kisses soon grow cold young....Minnie M'Nulty Westwood NJ 1893
I am here today and gone tomorrow Josephe E. Burr, New London, Connecticut
Nelson Taylor Leonia NJ 1891
Ellie B. Jarger Passaie, NJ 1893
Charles Westevelt Hackensack, NJ 1890
Emma
Lelia Hunt, Newark, NJ 1893
Ida Westervelt, Hackensack 1890
Lena F. Voorhis Paterson, NJ
When you get married and live up stairs for mercy sake don't put on airs-Etta
J.H. Vreeland, Hackensack, NJ 1889
Emma M. Daniels, Hackensack, NJ
M. Weggant, Hackensack
Mrs. J.S. Hoover? Patterson, NJ
George Mercier, Hoboken, NJ
Round went the album...Alice Bratt
I wish you had a husband...Sophie J. Lindsay 1894
G.F.? Grismond, Leonia, NJ
Man's love is like scotch snuff...woman's ...is like french brandy, Clara Jones 1894
Stephen Louis Wygart, Hackensack, NJ
Our lives are albums...Nelson Haas 1891
Miss Alice Louisa Ackerman, Newark Valley, Tioga Co, N. York 1891
Cheerfulness is the daughter of employment, Minnie Hetzel, East Orange NJ
In sailing...Carrie 1892
Aura D. Trowbridge? Hackensack 1891
A cheeful disposition is the best umbrella...Muriel Holdridge, Mount Vernon NY 1891
I write not for beautyI write...Ada MacNeil 1892
Our lives are...Eva Huyles? 1891
J. Ferry B. Brooklyn 1893
To the Ripples follow...so may God's blessings...Chris Mookes
Mrs. M. H. Coores, Paterson NJCould "Huyles" be "Huyler"?
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