1890s schoolgirl's autograph book - mostly Hackensack

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There are some familiar-sounding surnames in this.


Description:

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 NJ



Could "Huyles" be "Huyler"?



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