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Guide to the Dwight W. Sollberger Collection,
1816-1864
Biographical Note
Dwight Sollberger was a distant relative of Robert Wilson who was an early settler of Allegheny County who emigrated from Ireland. He owned a large tract of land in Indiana Township, near Pittsburgh, Pa.. Wilson's papers remained in the family for several generations before being donated to IUP.
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Scope and Content Notes
These papers contain the personal correspondence of Robert Wilson, dating from 1816-1842, as well as other documents relating to his land holdings and allegiance to King George.
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The Sollberger Collection is housed in one archival box.
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Restrictions
This collection is open for research.
Property rights reside with Indiana University of Pennsylvania, University Archives and Special Collections. Literary rights are retained by the creators of the records and their heirs. For permissions to reproduce or publish, please contact the coordinator of the University Archives and Special Collections.
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Controlled Access Terms |
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| These records are indexed under the following terms in the Indiana University of Pennsylvania Library catalog. Researchers wishing to find related materials may wish to search under these terms. | ||
| Topics | ||
| Education -- Pennsylvania -- Indiana | ||
| Corporate Names | ||
| Indiana State Teacher's College (Indiana University of Pennsylvania) | ||
| Personal Names | ||
| Sollberger, Dwight | ||
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Administrative Information
The Dwight W. Sollberger Collection, 1816-1864, MG# 25, Indiana University of Pennsylvania, University Archives and Special Collections
The contents of this collection were donated to the IUP Archives by former Biology Professor Dr. Dwight Sollberger.
This collection was processed by Special Collections Staff,date unknown. Papers rearranged and inventory rewritten by Special Collections Staff in Spring 2001.
Revision and rearrangement for the encoded version of the finding aid provided by Jason Hutchins on October 26, 2001.
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Container List |
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| Box | Folder | ||||||||||||
| 1 | 1 | 2 Cassette Tapes and a Brief Biography of Sollberger | |||||||||||
| Box | Folder | ||||||||||||
| 2 | Robert Wilson's Statement of Allegiance to King George, August 24, 1816 | ||||||||||||
| 3 | Letter from James Moore (Baltimore) to Robert Wilson, 1819 | ||||||||||||
| 4 | Draft of Land Surveyed for Robert Wilson, 1819 | ||||||||||||
| 5 | Lord Ely's Statement appointing Robert Wilson Seneschal, August 22, 1816 | ||||||||||||
| 6 | James Moore to Robert Wilson, August 27, 1817 | ||||||||||||
| 7 | Thomas Wilson to Robert Wilson, June 17, 1819 | ||||||||||||
| 8 | Letter to Thomas Wilson from Robert T. Wilson, Sr. (Copy), April 20, 1821 | ||||||||||||
| 9 | Robert Wilson to Thomas Wilson, April 20, 1821 | ||||||||||||
| 10 | Robert Wilson Certificate of Naturalization, 1825 | ||||||||||||
| 11 | Letter from Andrew Balfour to Robert T. Wilson, September 4, 1830 | ||||||||||||
| 12 | Robert Wilson to Thomas Wilson, March 7, 1830 | ||||||||||||
| 13 | Letter to Robert Wilson from his son George Wilson (Liverpool), 1832 | ||||||||||||
| 14 | George Wilson to Robert Wilson, October 17, 1832 | ||||||||||||
| 15 | Letter from George Wilson to Robert Wilson, December 18, 1832 | ||||||||||||
| 16 | Newspaper Article establishing Public Schools in PA (George Wolf, Governor), 1835 | ||||||||||||
| 17 | Robert Wilson to George Wilson, January 23, 1835 | ||||||||||||
| 18 | Letter from Robert Wilson to George Wilson, 1835 | ||||||||||||
| 19 | Letter to Thomas Wilson from Robert Wilson, March 7, 1839 | ||||||||||||
| 20 | Letter, 1833 | ||||||||||||
| 21 | Agreement between James Brown and William Wilson, 1906 | ||||||||||||
| 22 | Letter, 1829 | ||||||||||||
| 23 | Letter, 1832 | ||||||||||||
| 24 | Letter, 1855 | ||||||||||||
| 25 | Letter, 1811 | ||||||||||||
| 26 | Robert Wilson, 1828 | ||||||||||||
| 27 | Letter, 1833 | ||||||||||||
| 28 | Letter, 1838 | ||||||||||||
| 29 | Agreement, 1817 | ||||||||||||
| 30 | Robert Wilson to Thomas Wilson, 1832 | ||||||||||||
| 31 | Letter, 1832 | ||||||||||||
| 32 | Paper by Roger Tory Peterson | ||||||||||||
| 33 | Copy of names of Robert Wilson's wife and children and date of birth | ||||||||||||
| 34 | Letter, 1818 | ||||||||||||
| 35 | Letter, 1818 | ||||||||||||
| 36 | Letter, 1818 | ||||||||||||
| 37 | Citizenship Papers of Robert Wilson, 1825 | ||||||||||||
| 38 | Letter, 1863 | ||||||||||||
| 39 | Letter, 1819 | ||||||||||||
| 40 | Letter, 1868 | ||||||||||||
| 41 | Robert Wilson to George Wilson, 1832 | ||||||||||||
| 42 | Thomas from Robert Wilson & Robert from Thomas, 1825 | ||||||||||||
| 43 | Robert Wilson's Will, 1839 | ||||||||||||
| 44 | Letter, 1819 | ||||||||||||
| 45 | Letter, 1822 | ||||||||||||
| 46 | Letter, 1820 | ||||||||||||
| 47 | Letter, 1826 | ||||||||||||
| 48 | Letter, 1868 | ||||||||||||
| 49 | Robert Wilson's appointment to Allegiance Guard, 1842 | ||||||||||||
| 50 | Letter, 1864 | ||||||||||||
| 51 | Letter, 1827 | ||||||||||||
| 52 | Letter, 1831 | ||||||||||||
| 53 | Various Letters | ||||||||||||
| 54 | Letter, 1830 | ||||||||||||
| 55 | Letter, 1813 | ||||||||||||
| 56 | Letter, 1862 | ||||||||||||
| 57 | Letter, 1818 | ||||||||||||
| 58 | Letter, 1839 | ||||||||||||
| 59 | Letter, 1823 | ||||||||||||
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