Nixon and Starr Families Papers
00060

Summary Information

Repository
Michigan State University Archives and Historical Collections
Creator
Nixon family, (Bruce Elbert Starr, 1870-1923)
Creator
Starr family, (Bruce Elbert Starr, 1870-1923)
Title
Nixon and Starr families papers
ID
00060
Date [inclusive]
1897-1923
Extent
0.33 Cubic feet
Language
English

Preferred Citation

Researchers wishing to cite this collection should include the following information: "Item title, Collection title, Collection Identifier, Michigan State University Archives & Historical Collections, East Lansing, Michigan."

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Scope and Contents of the Papers

The collection contains the family papers of John W. Nixon, a pharmacist residing in Jennings, Missaukee County, Michigan. The papers include business correspondence, personal correspondence, and miscellaneous receipts and documents. Included among the family's business dealings were ownership of a grocery company in Potterville and later Levering, Michigan, run by John's son James R. Nixon; and, operation of a fruit grove in Avon Park, Florida.

The collection also includes the personal receipts and household accounts of Bruce E. (Bert) Starr, an insurance agent and state fire inspector; newspaper accounts and a coroner's report of his sudden death, sympathy letters received by his widow Ethel, daughter of John W. Nixon, and other of Ethel's correspondence. Folder 14 contains a photograph of Bert Starr.

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Administrative Information

Publication Information

Michigan State University Archives and Historical Collections April 1968

Conrad Hall
888 Wilson Road, Room 101
East Lansing , MI, 48824
517-355-2330
archives@msu.edu

Revision Description

  March 2001

Conditions Governing Access

Collection is open for research.

Legal Status

Copyright: Michigan State University. Property Rights: Michigan State University.

Conditions Governing Use

Permission to publish material from this collection must be obtained from University Archives & Historical Collections, Michigan State University.

Custodial History

Gift of Charles Barnett.

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Controlled Access Headings

Corporate Name(s)

  • Avon Park Citrus Growers' Association. (Avon Park, Fla.)
  • Fraternal Order of the Blue Goose. (Mich.)
  • Nixon Grocery Company. (Potterville, Mich.)
  • Plymouth Congregational Church. (Lansing, Mich.)
  • Union Building & Loan Association (Lansing, Mich.).

Family Name(s)

  • Nixon family, (Bruce Elbert Starr, 1870-1923)

Genre(s)

  • Catalogs
  • Commercial correspondence
  • Ledgers (account books)
  • Letters (correspondence)
  • Postcards

Geographic Name(s)

  • Avon Park (Fla.)
  • Lansing (Mich.)

Personal Name(s)

  • Barnett, Charles
  • Nixon, James R., 1872-1923
  • Nixon, John W.
  • Starr, Bruce Elbert, 1870-1923
  • Starr, Ethel Nixon

Subject(s)

  • Automobiles -- Prices -- Michigan -- Lansing
  • Freemasonry -- Michigan
  • Pharmacists -- Michigan
  • Photographs

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Collection Inventory

Box

Nixon, J.R.: Correspondence 

 1
Box Folder

 1897, 1900, 1912 - Receipt: 1901 

 1 1

 1898, 1910-1911 

 1 2

 1912-1919 

 1 3
Box Folder

Correspondence 1920-1921 

 1 4

Receipts 1911-1915 

 1 4
Box

Starr, Ethel: Correspondence 

 1
Box Folder

 May 1903 - January 1923 

 1 5

 January - March 1923, undated 

 1 6
Box Folder

Starr, Bruce E.: Correspondence 1892-1923 

 1 7

Miscellaneous: Coroner's report and obituary January 1923 

 1 7

Manuscript Material 1909, undated 

 1 8
Box

Starr, B.E. 

 1
Box Folder

Household Receipts 1908-1913 

 1 9

Miscellaneous Receipts 1901-1922 

 1 10

Rent and Miscellaneous Receipts 1901-1913 

 1 11

Utilities Receipts 1908-1913 

 1 12

Insurance Policies - Receipts 1908-1912 

 1 13

Miscellaneous 1902-1923, undated 

 1 14

Nixon, J.W.: Miscellaneous 1902-1923, undated 

 1 14
Box Folder

Fraternal Organization Memberships 1910-1923, undated 

 1 8
Box

vol. 1: Ledger 1903-1904 

 1