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Francis Samuel Drake collection

Collection

Identifier: Spec. Col. -11-D-3

Scope and Contents

Much of the business portion concerns the compilation and publication of his "A Dictionary of American Biography". In addition, there are notes and correspondence from Drake's work on the Boston Tea Party, and the originial membership of the Massachsuetts Society of the Cincinnati. The collection also holds a small quantity of family correspondence.

Dates: undated

Found in: R. Stanton Avery Special Collections

Frank Waterman Stearns papers, 1683-1966.

Collection — Multiple Containers

Identifier: Mss-38

Scope and Contents Chiefly letters, memos and clippings by and about Frank W. Stearns of Boston, director of R. H. Stearns department store, trustee of Amherst College and campaign manager for Calvin Coolidge. The bulk of his material relates to Amherst College, in particular, the hiring and firing of Alexander Meiklejoh, President of Amherst 1912-1923. The material on the store concerns mostly with real estate on Temple Place and Tremont Street in Boston. There are some papers documenting his relationship...

Dates: 1683-1966; Majority of material found within (: 1788-1879, 1900-1938)

Found in: R. Stanton Avery Special Collections

Frederick Lewis Weis papers

Collection

Identifier: Mss-108

Abstract

Genealogies, biographies, notes, and correspondence pertaining to the Weis, Stone, and allied families, particularly in Lancaster and Sterling, Massachusetts.

Dates: 1930-1963

Found in: R. Stanton Avery Special Collections

George Sydney Horace Lee Washington papers

Collection

Identifier: Mss-3

Abstract

Sydney Horace Lee Washington (1909-1988) was a genealogist. This collection contains genealogical correspondence and notes on the Washington and Lee families, personal correspondence, financial papers, and photographs.

Dates: 1907-1951.

Found in: R. Stanton Avery Special Collections

Gilbert Harry Doane papers, 1925-1979.

Collection — Multiple Containers

Identifier: Mss-16

Scope and Contents About two-thirds of the collection reflects his genealogical research which centered on Fairfield, Vermont, families, with card files, and focused on the Hungerford family, starting with the immigrant, Thomas Hungerford (ca. 1602-1663), of New London and Hartford, Connecticut. The remaining one-third includes correspondence as the Director of Libraries at the University of Wisconsin at Madison, 1937-1966; as historiographer of the Episcopal Diocese of Milwaukee, 1945-1967; and notes as the...

Dates: 1925-1979

Found in: R. Stanton Avery Special Collections

Gilbert Thomas Swan papers

Collection

Identifier: Mss-1092

Abstract

Gilbert Thomas Swan of Glasgow, Scotland was stationed in Gibraltar as a member of the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve during World War I. He and his family immigrated to the United States in 1928 and settled in New Jersey.

This collection contains documents and photographs relating to the military service of Gilbert T. Swan as well as fourteen literary manuscripts (fiction and non-fiction), four poems, drafts, and notes written by Swan.

Dates: 1901-1925

Found in: R. Stanton Avery Special Collections

Grace S. Bischof papers, 1962-1978.

Collection — Multiple Containers

Identifier: Mss-15

Scope and Contents

A genealogical study of the residence of Swan's Island, Maine, 1623-1978, including genealogical notes on 154 families, bibliographic file, correspondence, and transcriptions. These transcriptions are of the vital records for the town and a card file of cemetery inscriptions from Harbor Island, Hock Head, Irish Point - Seal Cove, Stockbridge Hill, Old North, and Atlantic burial grounds. There are 18 photographic negatives of gravestones.

Dates: 1962-1978

Found in: R. Stanton Avery Special Collections

Harold Reed Hibbs papers, 1940-1974.

Collection — Multiple Containers

Identifier: Mss-34

Scope and Contents Consists of three sections. The first, which contains the majority of the documents, is Harold Hibbs' research on Hibbs and related families. This material includes research on the descendants of William Hibbs (1652-1696) as well as related families. Of the 380 allied families represented, the research on the Craft and Ross families is the most extensive. The second section consists of Hibbs descendants in America not related to William Hibbs. Some of the material in this group was...

Dates: 1940-1974

Found in: R. Stanton Avery Special Collections

Henry Augustus Peirce papers, 1629-1866.

Collection — Multiple Containers

Identifier: Mss-20

Scope and Contents Collection consists of correspondence, deeds and other records of land transfer, surveyor's plans, bills, receipts, and a diary. The main part of the collection is the papers of Joseph Peirce (1745-1828) and his son Joseph Hardy Peirce (1773-1832) who were agents of the Twenty Associates Land Company (officially called the Twenty Associates of the Lincolnshire Company) disposing of 100,000 acres of land in Maine centered on Camden and Hope. These records start with a grant in 1629, the...

Dates: 1629-1866

Found in: R. Stanton Avery Special Collections

Henry James Tudor papers, 1819-1849.

Collection — Box: 1

Identifier: Mss-29

Scope and Contents Consists chiefly of one hundred and fifty-five letters from family members written between 1819 and 1849. There is also one memo book dated 1827-8 and some undated reports on experiments in salt making conducted by Henry James Tudor. There are about fifteen letters addressed to other members of the Tudor family, a watercolor and lithograph portrait of Henry J Tudor, and a sketch of the family burial plot with annotations by Henry. Includes some social letters to Harry Tudor, medical advice...

Dates: 1819-1849

Found in: R. Stanton Avery Special Collections

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Francis Samuel Drake collection

Frank Waterman Stearns papers, 1683-1966.

Frederick Lewis Weis papers

George Sydney Horace Lee Washington papers

Gilbert Harry Doane papers, 1925-1979.

Gilbert Thomas Swan papers

Grace S. Bischof papers, 1962-1978.

Harold Reed Hibbs papers, 1940-1974.

Henry Augustus Peirce papers, 1629-1866.

Henry James Tudor papers, 1819-1849.

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