Grant family papers 1836-1874.

  1. Resources
  2. View Resource

ArchivalResource

Grant family papers 1836-1874.

http://asteria.fivecolleges.edu/findaids/mountholyoke/mshm035.html

Grant family. Elijah Grant and Elizabeth Phelps Grant, 1784-1866, and eight children. Papers consist of letters to Martha Grant, 1824-1847, compositions and journal. Primarily documenting the health of Martha, attended Mount Holyoke Female Seminary, 1842-1844 and activities of the family including mission work, education, and activities of her siblings, Joel, 1816-1873, John, 1822-1878, and Mary Zilpah Grant Burgess, 1811-1842, and in-laws, Susan Boyd Grant, b. 1815 and Abigail Fidelia Cowles Grant, 1820-1881, attended Mount Holyoke Female Seminary, 1843-1845. Papers also include the correspondence of Abigail Grant to Martha Grant. Primarily describing academic and residential life at Mount Holyoke and her marriage to Joel Grant.

1 box; (2.5 linear in.)

eng,

Mount Holyoke College Archives and Special Collections

Information

SNAC Resource ID: 6321772

Related Entities

There are 16 Entities related to this resource.

Mount Holyoke College. English Department

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6d67099 (corporateBody)

Grant, Martha, 1824-1847

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6vk1zgp (person)

Grant, Abigail Cowles, 1820-1881

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6sk7w5g (person)

Abigail Fidelia Cowles came from Norfolk, Connecticut and was a non-graduate of Mount Holyoke Female Seminary Class of 1846. She married minister Joel Grant in 1845 and moved to Illinois. Cowles worked in soldiers' homes in Tennessee and Illinois. She died in 1881 in Chicago. From the guide to the Grant Papers MS 0636., 1844-1848, 1846, (Mount Holyoke College Archives and Special Collections) ...

Burgess, Mary Grant, 1811-1842

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6tx8158 (person)

Grant, Susan Boyd, 1815-

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6j26csm (person)

Nichols, Mary Sargeant Gove, 1810-1884

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6086t34 (person)

American reformer and water-cure physician; author of novels under pseudonym "Mary Orme." From the description of Mary Sargeant Gove Nichols letters to Alonzo Lewis [manuscript], 1848-1859, undated. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 174964798 ...

Ambler, Mary Esther

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6q11kgc (person)

Grant, Elizabeth Phelps, 1784-1866

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6j55330 (person)

Grant, John, 1822-1878

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w64w2v04 (person)

Grant family.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6mn2r0t (family)

Elizabeth Phelps and Elijah Grant, brother of Zilpah Grant Banister, married on November 11, 1807. Their first son Elijah was born in Norfolk, Connecticut on August 3, 1808. He graduated from Yale in 1830 and married Susan Boyd on September 7, 1836. Their first daughter, Mary Zilpah, was born on August 18, 1811. She attended Ipswich Female Seminary and married Reverend Ebenezer Burgess in 1839. They worked as missionaries in India. Elizabeth Grant was the third child, born in 1813. Joel Grant wa...

Mount Holyoke Female Seminary - History - Sources.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6gg75wc (corporateBody)

Burgess, Ebenezer, 1805-1870

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w63x9h31 (person)

Andover Theological Seminary - History - Sources.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w60x4r2n (corporateBody)

Yale University - History - 19th century - Sources.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6qw9zwz (corporateBody)

Grant, Joel, 1816-1873

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6h86rcj (person)

Bedortha, Lorinda Moore, 1809-1875

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6k23dwj (person)