Wilkes University Archives is excited to announce that thanks to Kaycee Wren, a Junior History and Secondary Education Major, the Wyoming Valley, Wilkes-Barre, and Luzerne County General subseries of the Gilbert Stuart McClintock collection is now processed and digitized.
Along with working in the archives, Kaycee is in both the Honors and Barre Scholars program and occasionally attends events and meetings for the Education club. Kaycee aspires to become a History Teacher and eventually go on to receive a PhD in History. Outside of Wilkes University, Kaycee enjoys painting, crocheting and traveling.
Jessica Van Orden, a Creative Writing Grad Student, has aided in the transcriptions and in writing the blog post.
The finding aid with digitized items can be found here. Feel free to check out Kaycee and Jessica’s extensive blog post on the history of community development in Northeastern PA with a focus on the Wyoming Valley builders like Matthias Hollenback, Timothy Pickering, Zebulon Butler, Ezekiel Pierce, Nathan Dennison, Jehoiakim Mtohksin, Jonathan Sullivan, Samuel Kirkland, John Jenkins, Louis de Noailles, Antoine Omer Talon, Jesse Fell, Thomas Mifflin, Clement Biddle, and Elisha Blackman. Blog post is here: https://wuarchives.home.blog/2024/05/28/the-collective-tapestry-of-northeastern-pennsylvania-development-a-closer-look-into-the-lives-of-early-wyoming-valley-builders/