Ferris family genealogical research papers 1865-1967 1897-1899

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Ferris family genealogical research papers 1865-1967 1897-1899

Lora Cornelia Little, public health activist and a descendant of the Ferris family through her maternal grandmother Ruth Ferris, was born Lora Williams, in Waterville, Minnesota Territory in 1856. The genealogical research compiled by Lora Little and Henry Boynton Ferris lineage related to their investigation of the Ferris Family includes family data sheets, research notes, and photographs, as well as correspondence from distant relations, fellow genealogists, town clerks and other recordskeepers.

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Lora Cornelia Little, public health activist and a descendant of the Ferris family through her maternal grandmother Ruth Ferris, was born Lora Williams, in Waterville, Minnesota Territory in 1856. She married Elijah A. Little, a civil engineer from Port Byron, N.Y. In 1895 Little's only child Kenneth died following a compulsory vaccination that was administered in advance of his admission to the Yonkers, New York public schools. She provides an account of his death in "Crimes of the...

Little, Lora C

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Lora Cornelia Little, public health activist and a descendant of the Ferris family through her maternal grandmother Ruth Ferris, was born Lora Williams, in Waterville, Minnesota Territory in 1856. She married Elijah A. Little, a civil engineer from Port Byron, N.Y. In 1895 Little's only child Kenneth died following a compulsory vaccination that was administered in advance of his admission to the Yonkers, New York public schools. She provides an account of his death in "Crimes of the...