The file contains a booklet titled "A Sherry Family of Canada; the descendants of George and Susanna Sherry early settlers of Hastings County. Complied and written by Robert Dean Sherry. 1789-1967" A supplement to the volume was published in 1981 by Robert Sherry.
File contains a printed spiral-bound booklet entitled “The Descendants of Alexander and Grace McInroy, early settlers of Hastings County-Ontario Canada,” compiled by Robert Dean Sherry, great great grandon of the couple, Also present is a supplement to the genealogy produced by Robert Dean Sherry, 1973.
This description is for part of a collection of some 4,400 vertical files of materials gathered by the Hastings County Historical Society. They cover a wide range of subjects and were received from a variety of different sources, not always recorded.
The collection includes original materials, newspaper clippings, secondary histories and copies.
The file contains funeral memorial books for Alice Gertrude Joyce (formerly Mays) born 2 Feb 1870, died 17 Sept 1958; William James Joyce born 18 July 1880, died 24 April 1966. Also newspaper obituary for George H. Harris (age 80) born 22 Sept 1895 husband of Argena Tousignant.
File contains the family history of the Herchmers of Kingston, published in 1967 in the Kingston Historical Society Papers by Eleanor Herchmer Robertson.
Photograph album of Stuart Hilton Plante's time as a member of the Royal Flying Corps/Royal Air Force stationed at Camp Mohawk near Deseronto, Ontario.
Photographs of generally unidentified individuals, members of the Wilson/Thomas families of Belleville and Winnipeg, Manitoba. Two photographs are of the house at 277 Dundas Street West, Belleville.
A red and white quilt made in 1894 by the Steady Gleaners, a group of women affiliated with the Presbyterian Church of the Redeemer, Deseronto, Ontario, possibly with the aim of raising funds for missionary work. This quilt may have been made for such a purpose. The signatures of the women in the society are embroidered onto the squares of the quilt.
The names on the quilt are: F.M.R. Bella Smyth Mrs Wm. Gamble Florence A. Davis Mrs F. S. Rathbun Alice McGault Mrs C. E. Ravin Mrs J. W. McCaw Mrs G. Genge Mrs Wm. Mitchell Mrs R. J. Craig, President Mrs Frank S. Hall [Bessie] Annie Hill Mrs McCoy Mrs F. H. Sims Mrs J. D. Dulmadge Mrs J. Douglas Tillie Maxwell Mrs D. Dant Miss Mary Huff Mrs G. Gordon Ella Pegan Mrs G. A. Grant Mrs Joe Hopper Mrs Wm. Geney Gertrude R. Craig Aggie Elliott Mrs Mackie Mrs A. D. Macintyre I. Thornton Mrs C. Forrester Mrs R. Anderson Ira B. Anderson L. Smyth Mrs R. Geddes Mrs F. McMaster Mrs J. M. Denmark Mrs A. G. Knight Mrs J. Buter Clara McClain Mrs C. Bennett Mrs J. T. Garmon
Appointment as First Lieutenant in the United States Army Medical Corps, 1918
License to practice medicine in Wyoming, 1920
Membership of the Associate of Military Surgeons, 1920
Licentiate from the Post Graduate Course in Pulmonary Tuberculosis, 1925
Licentiate as Fellow of the American College of Physicians, 1929
Certificate in Internal Medicine, 1937
2) Other materials
Two photographs of Lester D. Riggs in army uniform
'Symptoms and Treatment of Tuberculosis' paper by Lester D. Riggs, c. 1926
'Chronic Diseases Found in Association with Pulmonary Tuberculosis: Their Influence on Prognosis and Treatment' paper by Lester D. Riggs, 2 December 1926
'Tuberculous Activity Following Tonsillectomy' paper by Lester D. Riggs, 25 May 1928
'Definite Terminal Signs in Pulmonary Tuberculosis' paper by Lester D. Riggs, c.1928
'Artificial Pneumothorax and Tuberculosis' paper by Lester D. Riggs, 26 March 1929
Copy of letter of recommendation from George H. Kress, 15 May 1929
Printed program for the Convocation of the American College of Physicians, 1 May 1935
List of books [possibly owned by Lester D. Riggs]
Biography of Dr. Lester David Riggs
3) Journal of 'Artificial Pneumothorax Notes', including names of patients, 1929-1930