Grace Howard Gray Scrapbook circa 1862-1966

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Grace Howard Gray Scrapbook circa 1862-1966

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A scrapbook kept by Grace Howard Gray (1857-1949) to document family history and historic events, including mementos, drawings and ephemera collected during her lifetime. The scrapbook contains items related to the life of General O. O. Howard (1830-1909), Gray's father, and drawings by Guy Howard (1855-1899), her brother, and Charles Erskine Scott Wood (1852-1944). Additional materials were added to the scrapbook by other family members.

1.5 linear ft.; (1 document case; 1 box Oversize A-11x14)

eng,

Oregon Historical Society Research Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 6364327

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Howard, Oliver Otis, 1830-1909

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Oliver Howard was born in Leeds, Maine, the son of Rowland Bailey Howard and Eliza Otis Howard. Rowland, a farmer, died when Oliver was 9 years old. Oliver attended Monmouth Academy in Monmouth, North Yarmouth Academy in Yarmouth, Kents Hill School in Readfield, and graduated from Bowdoin College in 1850 at the age of 19. He then attended the United States Military Academy, graduating in 1854, fourth in his class of 46 cadets, as a brevet second lieutenant of ordnance. He served at the Watervlie...

United States. Army. Dept. of the Columbia.

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Wood, Charles Erskine Scott, 1852-1944

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Charles Erskine Scott Wood (1852-1944) was a U.S. Army officer, lawyer, and author. After graduating from the U.S. Military Academy in 1874, he became an aide to General O.O. Howard in 1877, serving with him in thePacific Northwest during the Bannock and Paiute and Nez Percé Indian wars. He later attended Columbia University, obtained his law degrees, and established a practice of maritime and corporation law in Portland, Oregon. In addition to his successful law practice, Wood painted, wrote, ...

Gray, Grace Howard, 1857-1949,

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Grace Howard Gray (1857-1949), a daughter of General O.O. Howard (1830-1909), was born in Leeds, Maine. In 1875, she left her studies at Vassar College to join her parents at Vancouver, Washington Territory, where her father commanded the U.S. Army's Department of the Columbia. General Howard, a Union officer during the Civil War, founded Howard University in Washington, D.C., and in 1877 he led a military campaign against the Nez Percé Indians in Idaho and Montana. In 1879, Grace E. Howard mar...

Gray, James Taylor, 1852-1928.

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Howard, Guy, 1855-1899.

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Army officer; son of Gen. O.O. Howard, born in Maine in 1855 and attended Yale. Served at Fort Whipple in 1878; joined company at Fort Apache in February 1879 and went to Camp Huachuca in March 1879 to command an Indian scout company. This tour of duty ended in February 1880 when he was appointed as aide to his father. He was killed in the Philippines in 1899. From the description of Howard papers, 1879. (Arizona Historical Society, Southern Arizona Division). WorldCat record id: 378...