Dunham Family Papers 1814-1951 [ongoing] 1855-1951

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Dunham Family Papers 1814-1951 [ongoing] 1855-1951

Artist, photographer, homemaker, traveler, philanthropist, bacteriologist, pathologist, and financier. The Dunham Family Papers represent four generations of the Dunham, Parker, Kellogg, and Dows families. The collection documents the medical education, research and professional activities of doctors Carroll Dunham and Edward Kellogg Dunham, Jr.; the financial activities of Edward Kellogg Dunham Jr.; the World War I medical and the volunteer work of women, including Theodora Dunham Bodman; creative writings; artwork; numerous photographs; travel correspondence; diaries and photographs from Europe, Egypt, the western U.S., and Panama.

57 boxes; (20 linear ft.)

eng,

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SNAC Resource ID: 6322815

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Dunham, Edward W., 1794-1871

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Harvard Medical School.

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Dunham, Edward Kellogg, 1901-1951

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Executive. Born, New York City, 1901. Financier and treasurer of Dow Estates, Inc.; active in Mount Desert (ME) community. Traveled extensively in the western U.S., Panama, the Caribbean, and Europe, 1920s-1940s. Married Nancy Yellot, of California, 1933. Children Edward K. Dunham, III, and Elizabeth Dunham. Resided in New York City and Seal Harbor, ME. From the description of Papers, 1909-1951. (Smith College). WorldCat record id: 36835695 ...

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Taylor, Henry Osborn, 1856-1941

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Thayer, William Sydney, 1864-1932

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The Dunham family in Seal Harbor, Maine, ca. 1910 The Dunham family as represented in this collection begins with Edward Wood Dunham (1794-1871) of New Brunswick, New Jersey, and his wife, Maria Smyth Parker (1794-1834), of Perth Amboy, New Jersey. They moved to New York City in 1821. There Edward established himself as a banker and eventually became president of the Corn Exchange Bank. Edward and Maria Dunham had four children: Ann Lawrence, Edward, James, and Carroll....

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Dunham, Harriet Elvira Kellogg, 1820-1905

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Flexner, Simon, 1863-1946

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Jacobson, C. A. (Carl Alfred), 1876-1956

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Dunham, Beatrice, 1870-1911

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Colman, Samuel, 1832-1920

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