Breed family papers, 1776-1854.

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Breed family papers, 1776-1854.

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Primarily business and family correspondence of members of the Breed family of Norwich, Connecticut and Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Shubael Breed was a merchant in Norwich. His correspondents included Mason Fitch Cogswell, fellow Yale graduate Alexander Wolcott, and Shubael's sister Susannah Brewer. Shubael's daughter Mary married Henry H. Coit of Cleveland, Ohio and his son George engaged in the earthenware trade in Pittsburgh, where he married his second wife, Rhoda Ogden Edwards. Among George and Rhoda's children was Emma Bell Breed.

0.4 linear feet (1/2 box).

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Breed family.

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Wolcott, Alexander, 1758-1828

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Coit, Henry H., 1791-1870.

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Breed, Emma Bell, b. 1844.

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Breed, George, 1799-1863.

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Breed, Shub. (Shubael), 1759-1840

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Cogswell, Mason Fitch, 1761-1830

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Mason Fitch Cogswell was born in Canterbury, Connecticut, on September 28, 1761. Following the death of his mother, he was adopted by Samuel Huntington, who served as president of the Continental Congress between 1779 and 1781. Cogswell attended Yale College and was valedictorian of the class of 1780. After graduating, he studied medicine under his brother James, a surgeon, at an army hospital in New York, and he eventually became a prominent physician, pioneering surgeries for cataracts and for...