Box 0058.01

This collection contains assorted memorabilia (Lucy Packer Linderman’s fan, two samplers dated 1821 and 1848, assorted photographs) but mostly notes, correspondence, deeds, daughter, Mary Packer Cummings’ will, and several copies of a paper, entitled “Asa Packer: A Connecticut Yankee in King Coal's Court,” written by Milton C. Stuart about Asa Packer for the Newcomen Society presented at Lehigh University in 1938.

This collection contains assorted memorabilia (Lucy Packer Linderman’s fan, two samplers dated 1821 and 1848, assorted photographs) but mostly notes, correspondence, deeds, daughter, Mary Packer Cummings’ will, and several copies of a paper, entitled “Asa Packer: A Connecticut Yankee in King Coal's Court,” written by Milton C. Stuart about Asa Packer for the Newcomen Society presented at Lehigh University in 1938.

4th Street and Packer Street September 1868, recorded July 1869. The deed is signed by Asa Packer and Sarah M. Packer. (Note attached says the deed was donated by Myrtle Derr Elm, granddaughter of Henry Fisher to honor her son Gerhard William Elm, Lehigh University Class 1949)

Land situated on the north side of 5th Street in the Borough of South Bethlehem and numbered 77on the plan of S. Wetherill signed by Asa Packer and Sarah M. Packer on July 17, 1875

January 23, 1878. The poem has nine stanzas and musically set to the Air “Auld Lang Syne” (printed in gold ink on fine ivory paper) [two copies in folder; one donated with a note by Jane Weston Coyle who found it among her parents papers];50th Wedding Invitation (10 x 14.4 cm) gold ink printed on Ivory card stock edged in gold (Gift of Robert B. Honeyman)

Eulogy of Robert Asa Packer, 1842-1883, appeared in “The Underwriter Extra” a National Insurance Journal, George Cohen, Editor, Philadelphia, March 1, 1883 (original and three copies)

The Executors were E.P. Wilbur, Robert H. Sayre, Charles Hartshorne, James J. Blakslee, and John B. Garrett. (eight printed pages)

dated April 22, 1904, First Codicil dated July 29, 1908, Second Codicil dated October 18, 1910, Third Codicil dated May 10, 1912, Mary Packer Cummings died October 29, 1912. Included in this folder is a newspaper clipping about the effects of Harry E. Packer’s death in relationship to his sister Mary Packer Cummings and Lehigh University receiving the income of Asa Packer estate.

A Record of the Events, Services, Sermons and Addresses Commemorating the 100th Anniversary of the Parish. Issued 1937 (46 printed page booklet with photographs bound in a reddish tan heavy paper cover) 1940 June 22 from St. Mark’s Church to Prof. M.C. Stuart Letter asking if Stuart would give an address in the church on Asa Packer. 1977 September 3 “Packer church at Jim Thorpe entered in National Register” Morning Call, Allentown, Pa.

This collection contains assorted memorabilia (Lucy Packer Linderman’s fan, two samplers dated 1821 and 1848, assorted photographs) but mostly notes, correspondence, deeds, daughter, Mary Packer Cummings’ will, and several copies of a paper, entitled “Asa Packer: A Connecticut Yankee in King Coal's Court,” written by Milton C. Stuart about Asa Packer for the Newcomen Society presented at Lehigh University in 1938.