Carrie Patten Cronk Diaries

These diaries were donated by, and the robust introduction was written by Carol Cronk Cole.
Carrie Irvilla Patten was born at 107 Rivard Street, Detroit, Wayne, Michigan on the 21st of May 1865 to Silas and Cynthia [nee McClellan] Patten. The Patten family goes back through Lyons, Wayne, New York to England in the late 1700s while the McClellan family came to Ohio from New Jersey. Carrie was the eldest of three daughters: Carrie, Edith and Lena, called
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