This collection consists almost entirely of family letters sent by farmer Alexander Miner (1802-1873) in Lima, New York, to his daughter Martha Matilda Miner, a college student attending Oberlin College in Ohio (Class of 1863).

Alexander Douglas Miner (1802-1873) was born on June 22, 1802. He married Abby E. Skinner on May 28, 1848. Miner was a farmer in Lima, New York. The couple had two daughters, Martha Matilda Miner and Nellie W. Miner.

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