Roswell Parish papers 1858-1921

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Roswell Parish papers 1858-1921

http://hdl.handle.net/10079/fa/mssa.ms.1020

The papers contain correspondence related to Roswell Parish's attendance at Yale College (Class of 1864), Civil War letters consisting of letters of introduction obtained by Parish in conveying his brother home from the Battle of Antietam and miscellaneous correspondence, autographs, and printed matter. Included in the letters is one from Maxfield Parrish on family genealogy. Among the signatures are those of E. E. Hale, Alvan G. Clark, John T. Morse, N. R. Huntington, Francis A. Walker, Edward H. Hall, Timothy Dwight and E. C. Williams. The Yale letters are chiefly from college officials about Parish's academic standing, but also included are five letters from Walter Camp concerning football.

0.25 linear foot

eng,

Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives

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SNAC Resource ID: 6350993

Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives

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Parish, Roswell, 1840-1932.

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Roswell Parish was born in Smithtown, New York, on December 3, 1840. He attended Hartford Public High School before enrolling at Yale University as a member of the class of 1863. After his sophomore year, Parish took time off from Yale in order to teach in Connecticut and Washington, D.C. He completed his studies at Yale in 1864, when he received the degree of B.A. After graduation, Parish spent most of his life teaching mathematics and physics at various high schools and private se...