Alfred Vail's genealogical research papers ca. 1851-1902

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Alfred Vail's genealogical research papers ca. 1851-1902

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Between 1837 and 1844, inventor Alfred Lewis Vail worked together with Samuel F.B. Morse in the development and spread of the telegraph. In 1848, Vail moved to his home town, Morristown, New Jersey, and spent the last ten years of his life conducting genealogical research. Correspondence, research notes and notebooks, and family charts on the Vail family, compiled by Alfred Vail, including questionnaires completed by family members. Includes inventory in Box 1. Index cards refer to the 20 bound volumes of correspondence and research notes, compiled by Henry Vail, ca. 1902.

15.5 linear feet (32 boxes)

The New York Public Library. Irma and Paul Milstein Division of United States History, Local History and Genealogy.

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Vail family

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New York Genealogical and Biographical Society Collection

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Vail, Alfred, 1807-1859

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Genealogist. From the description of Vail family genealogical research papers, [ca. 1851-1858] (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 155497730 Inventor. From the description of Papers of Alfred Vail, 1835-1938. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 82098840 Alfred Vail, a co-inventor of the telegraph, was born in Morristown, New Jersey on September 25, 1807 to Bethiah Youngs and Stephen Vail. On September 2, 1837, he witnessed one of Professor Samuel F.P. Morse's firs...

Vail, Henry Hobart, 1839-1925

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Jerimiah Vail was born about 1618 in the west of England, emigrated to New England in 1639 and first located in Salem. Massachusetts. Moved to Southold, Long Island and died there in 1687. From the description of Vail genealogy typescript / by Henry H. Vail. 1902. (Scranton Public Library). WorldCat record id: 48215889 ...