Thoreau and Sewall Families Papers: Finding Aid

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Thoreau and Sewall Families Papers: Finding Aid

2002

https://oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/c8ws900x/entire_text/

The collection contains correspondence and manuscripts chiefly of the Sewall family of Massachusetts in the 19th century. However, there is also correspondence from the the Ward family and members of the family of author Henry David Thoreau, as well as a scrapbook of the Thoreau family.

135 pieces

eng, Latn

The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens Manuscripts Department

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SNAC Resource ID: 11667384

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Osgood, Ellen Devereux Sewall, 1822-1892

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Ellen Devereux (Sewall) Osgood was born on March 10, 1822, in Barnstable, Massachusetts, to Edmund Quincy and Caroline (Ward) Sewall. Edmund Sewall was a Unitarian minister in Scituate, Massachusetts, for seventeen years. In 1842, Ellen met Reverend Joseph Osgood, born on September 23, 1815, to Dr. Joseph Otis and Elizabeth (Fogg) Osgood in Kensington, New Hampshire. They married on May 20, 1844. Rev. Joseph Osgood, like Ellen’s father, was a Unitarian minister, who served fifty-five years as th...