Blake and Hepburn family papers, 1750-1982.

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Blake and Hepburn family papers, 1750-1982.

Papers of William H.D. Blake include personal and business daybooks and ledgers, 1875-1916; Civil War discharge paper, 1865; Blake's five volume memoirs on the Civil War, 1905; and scrapbooks on Civil War history, local events, family news, and World War I, 1884-1919. Papers of Alfred Blake include journals and ledgers, 1907-1939, school essays, 1870s, and New Paltz weather records, 1937-1950. Papers of Amy Hepburn include glass slides, and stereoptican views she collected, ca. 1840-1925, and clippings and related correspondence, 1940-1982; letters from Julien J. Chaomperois concerning the fall of France and life under German occupation, 1940-1945; slides and lecture notes on historic maps, 1831-1959; and a journal from European trip, 1923. Papers of Dollie Hepburn include personal correspondence, 1910-1959; her passport, 1928; and programs from Columbia University events, 1920-1930s. Other items include diaries of Harriet C. Booth, 1847-1848, Matilda Booth Blake, 1875, and Sarah Hepburn, 1933-1944; childhood journals of Elizabeth LeFevre, 1880-1890s; personal correspondence of J.C. Lowrie, 1840-1850s; letters, wills, estate papers, and tax records of Amy Hepburn, Dollie Hepburn, Anne Hepburn Smith, Matilda Blake, Ruth Edna Woolsey, Mrs. Samuel B. Hepburn, and Constance Winchell, 1922-1982; family ledgers and account books, 1842-1950, letters, receipts, and deeds, 1750-1968, and memorabilia, 1851-1970.

10 linear ft.

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Columbia University

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The Columbia University community and administration mobilized to the fullest extent in answer to the entry of the United States into World War I. Summed up by President Nicholas Murray Butler in the 1918 Annual Report, the effects of the war on the University were far-reaching: "Students by the hundred and prospective students by the thousand entered the military, naval, or civil service of the United States; teachers and administrative officers to the number of nearly four hundred...

LeFevre, Elizabeth.

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Lowrie, J. C.

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Booth, Harriet C.

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Hepburn, Dollie, d. 1976.

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Blake, William H. D., 1843-1926.

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Member of the 56th Regiment of the New York State Volunteers during the Civil War; and Commander of GAR Post 212. From the description of Civil War and GAR papers, 1861-1923. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 155511905 ...

Chaomperois, Julien J.

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Lowrie family.

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Smith, Anne Hepburn.

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Blake family.

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William H.D. Blake (1843-1926) married Matilda Booth; one child was Alfred Blake; another child married into the Hepburn family; their descendants included sisters, Amy Hepburn (d. 1966) and Dollie Hepburn (d. 1976). From the description of Blake and Hepburn family papers, 1750-1982. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 155511880 ...

Elting family.

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Blake, Matilda Booth.

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Woolsey, Ruth Edna.

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DuBois family.

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Blake, Alfred C., 1911-

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Hepburn, Samuel

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Hepburn, Sarah

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Winchell, Constance M. (Constance Mabel), 1896-1983

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Librarian. From the description of Reminiscences of Constance Mabel Winchell : oral history, 1963. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 309735785 ...

Boyd family.

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Hepburn, Amy, d. 1966.

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Hepburn family.

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