Carroll Academy Records, 1838 - 1944

Records of the Carroll Academy, 1838-1843, consisting of correspondence from Jacob Shower, 1838-41 of the Maryland House of Delegates about State financial support for the school; reports of the Board of Trustees to the Treasurer of the Western Shore of Maryland, 1840-43; and applications for the teacher's job there, August - September 1843. A small group of business correspondence and receipts addressed to A.K. Shriver and Sons, tannery at Union Mills. A folder of miscellaneous newspaper clippings and manuscript notes regarding Frederick County elections. A volume of records of the tannery maintained at Union Mills, 1865-1879. A folder of undated notes for speeches on various political subjects in Andrew Shriver's hand: subjects include embargo, Levy Court, roads, taxes, Germans and Republican party, U.S. Bank, religion, elections, etc. Daybook of personal expenses, 1914-1944, of Louis E. Shriver. Folders of undated correspondence of Andrew Shriver (17 pcs.), William Shriver (5 pcs.), Thomas Shriver (5 pcs.), John S. Shriver (5 pcs.), James Shriver (4 pcs.), Elizabeth Shriver (5 pcs.), James Renshaw (4 pcs.). Also contains a history of the family as compiled by Andrew K. Shriver in 1876, most of which was incorporated in Samuel S. Shriver, History of the Shriver Family and Their Connections 1684-1888 (Baltimore, 1888).