Papers, 1846-1939.

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Papers, 1846-1939.

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Papers of Rev. James Howard Means, pastor of the Second Church of Dorchester, Mass., include a journal of vacations taken in the United States; a diary and scrapbook of engravings of a trip to England in 1856; and sermons written and delivered by Means between 1860 and 1880. Also contains Farnsworth family materials, including a genealogy and essays on the ancestry of Alice Farnsworth, written by Henry Ainsworth Parker; "Family tales recorded by Sarah F. Bremer" (1939) with references to her Farnsworth ancestry; and a journal of Ezra Farnsworth (1813-1890) of a trip to Europe in 1877-78. The Means and Farnsworth families were related through the marriage of J.H. Means and Helen Goodell Farnsworth.

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Bremer, Sarah F.

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Parker, Henry Ainsworth.

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Farnsworth family.

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Means, James H. (James Howard), 1823-1894

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Farnsworth, Alice H. (Alice Hall), 1893-1960

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Alice Hall Farnsworth was born on October 19, 1893, in Williamsburg, Massachusetts. She attended Tanton public schools, and graduated from Mount Holyoke College in 1916. She received an M.S. and Ph.D. from the University of Chicago in 1917 and 1920 respectively. In 1920 she began teaching astronomy at Mount Holyoke College. In 1936 she became chair of the department, and she retired in 1957. Alice Hall Farnsworth died on October 1, 1960, in Newton, Massachusetts. From the guide to th...

Farnsworth, Ezra, 1813-1890

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