LeFevre/DuBois/Elting family papers, 1790-1955.

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LeFevre, Helena,. LeFevre/DuBois/Elting family papers, 1790-1955.

Title

LeFevre/DuBois/Elting family papers, 1790-1955.

Resource Link

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/155512859

Abstract

Deeds, letters, clippings, photographs, financial records, compositions, memorabilia, and genealogy concerning the members of the LeFevre, DuBois, Elting, and Deyo families. Family letters, 1844-1903, concern Abraham Deyo, Jennie Elting, Mary DuBois Rinehart, Maggie LeFevre, Solomon DuBois, Roelif Elting, Mary Dubois, Henry G. DuBois, Johannes LeFevre, and Margaret and Anna Elting; some concern western land and investments. There are also letters from Rachel Elting while she attended Poughkeepsie Female Academy, and Civil War letters from S.E. Hasbrouck, who was assistant surgeon with the 133rd New York Volunteers. Other items of note include diary kept by Solomon DuBois during a trip west, ca. 1870, and school compositions by Solomon DuBois, Rachel Elting, and Lizzie Elting, 1860s.

Extent

.5 cubic ft.

Holding Repository

Campbell University, Wiggins Memorial Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 6879058

Campbell University, Wiggins Memorial Library

Related Entities

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LeFevre family.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6289f1f (family)

Hasbrouck, S. E.

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Elting, Rachel.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6kw8rzr (person)

Elting, Lizzie.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w67401kd (person)

DuBois, Henry C. (Henry Cowell), 1880-

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w68d0kgr (person)

Henry C. DuBois (b. 1880), was the second son born to William L. DuBois and Mary (Cowell) DuBois. On his father's side, Henry was descended from Louis DuBois, a French Huguenot who immigrated to America in approximately 1660, and Robert Patterson (1743-1824), the Irish-born Revolutionary War hero and distinguished professor of mathematics at the University of Pennsylvania. Henry became the steward of a small cache of family history and papers, some of which date to the Revolutionary War. ...