Gilbert-Cheever family papers 1836-1891

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Gilbert-Cheever family papers 1836-1891

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The papers document the families formed by the marriages of two sisters, Mary and Fanny Goodridge, to William Hinman Gilbert and Henry A. Cheever, respectively. William H. Gilbert was a clergyman from Weston, Connecticut who, with his wife, taught in schools in Vermont and Massachusetts. Henry A. Cheever was a sea captain who settled in San Francisco ca. 1853 and brought his wife and children there from Massachusetts. The papers consist of correspondence, diaries, journals, record books, photographs, memorabilia, printed matter, and sermons relating to the lives of these two families and their children.The Cheever letters from San Francisco describe the political and social life of the city in addition to carrying news of the family and domestic activities. William E. Goodridge, brother of the two Goodridge sisters, wrote from the West where he described life in Nevada. After his death in 1864, his fiancee Sara A. Gonsalves continued to write to the family from Washington D.C. with descriptions of visits to soldiers' hospitals and other references to the Civil War. William H. Gilbert, who was an army agent of the American Bible Society (1864-1865), also reported on the Civil War and later, writing on his travels in Alabama in 1870, described the lynching of a black school teacher.

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Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives

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Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives

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Yale University. Students.

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Cheever, Fanny Goodridge, b. 1825.

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Yale College (1887- ). Class of 1949

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Goodridge, Joseph.

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Yale university. Divinity school

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For more than a century, theological instruction was conducted by Yale's president or by the Professor of Divinity, a position established by Thomas Clap in 1746. During these years, however, Yale did not have a formally established Divinity School. The college began to feel the lack of a separately established department in the beginning of the nineteenth century as more New England colleges--such as Williams, Middlebury, Union, and Hamilton--began to draw students to their seminar...

Gilbert, George Edwards, 1855-1879.

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Gonsalves, M. J.

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Gilbert family

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William Hinman Gilbert (1817-1905): ordained in 1845; minister at Haddam, Conn., 1845-1846; minister in Westminster, Vermont, 1846-1851; minister in Ashfield, Mass., 1851-1855; minister in Granby, Conn., 1855-1864; from 1864-1865, Superintendent of Scripture Distribution in the U.S. Army under the auspices of the American Bible Society; administrator for the American Bible Society, 1870-1900. Gilbert-Cheever Family Papers relate to members of the Goodridge, Gilbert and C...

Goodridge, William E., d. 1864

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American Bible society

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The American Bible Society, founded in New York City in 1816, promotes the distribution of the Bible and other sacred writings with the support of religious denominations throughout the world. From the description of American Bible Society synopsis of correspondence, 1883. (New York Public Library). WorldCat record id: 122517913 From the guide to the American Bible Society synopsis of correspondence, 1883, (The New York Public Library. Manuscripts and Archives Division.) ...

United States Christian Commission

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Cheever, Henry A., d. 1873.

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Gonsalves, Sara A.

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Gilbert, William H. (William Hinman), 1817-1905

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Thacher, Thomas Anthony, 1815-1886

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Thomas Anthony Thacher was born in Hartford, Connecticut, on January 11, 1815. He received a B.A. degree from Yale College in 1835 and his M.A. in 1838. From 1838 to 1842, Thacher was a tutor at Yale College. He then advanced to assistant professor of Latin and Greek Languages from 1842 to 1845, assistant professor of Latin Language and Literature from 1845 to 1851, and professor of Latin Language and Literature from 1851 until his death on April 7, 1886. In addition to his teaching duties, Thac...

Yale College (1887- ). Class of 1949

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Gilbert, Annie Ward, b. 1857.

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Gilbert, Mary Goodridge, 1823-1895.

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Gilbert, Charles Minor, 1855-1881.

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Cheever family.

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Bradford Junior College (Bradford, Mass.)

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Gilbert, Mary Alice, b. 1860.

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