Family papers, 1828-1966.

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Family papers, 1828-1966.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/11222685

Papers spanning the years 1828-1966 (bulk around 1875) relating to the Sears and Pickford families. The collection includes letters, financial papers and genealogies; catalogued separately are photographs, prints & drawings, books, pamphlets and artefacts. Materials relate notably to Capt. Isaac Sears (1785-1836), involved in trade with the West Indies, his son Isaac Henry Sears (1833-1900), a Boston leather merchant and Henry Pickford (1831-1907) Civil War veteran, locksmith and inventor. Much information is provided to document middle-class life in Chelsea in the last quarter of the 19th c. including reminiscences of girlhood by Bertha Frances Pickford Urann (1875-1966) contained in her unpublished manuscript "A Speck of earth and a sliver of time." Other segments of the collection contain papers relating to Mt. Auburn Cemetery, the Lynn-Boston Railroad, Sears Chapel, Longwood, and the suffragette Maud Wood Park (1871-1955).

5 boxes (2 ft.)

Boston Athenaeum

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SNAC Resource ID: 6674945

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Park, Maud Wood, 1871-1955

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Maud Wood Park (January 25, 1871 – May 8, 1955) was an American suffragist and women's rights activist. She was born in Boston, Massachusetts. In 1887 she graduated from St. Agnes School in Albany, New York, after which she taught for eight years before attending Radcliffe College. While there she married Charles Edward Park. She graduated from Radcliffe, where she was one of only two students who supported suffrage for women, in 1898. In 1900 she attended the National American Women Suffrage...

Lynn & Boston Railroad

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Pickford, Henry, 1831-1907

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Urann, Bertha Frances Pickford, 1875-1966

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Sears, Isaac Henry, 1833-1900

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United States. Army. Massachusetts Infantry Regiment, 43rd (1862-1863)

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Sears, Isaac, 1785-1836

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Pickford family.

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