Papers, 1841-1916, bulk 1862-1905.

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Papers, 1841-1916, bulk 1862-1905.

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This accession consists of correspondence, poems, photographs and legal and financial papers of the Ritter families of Syracuse, New York, and Hampden, Wisconsin. A considerable part of the collection consists of letters exchanged by William E. Ritter of Hampden, Wisconsin and his uncle Nelson Ritter of Syracuse, New York. The letters document the birth of William E. Ritter, Union Army recruiting in Wisconsin during the Civil War, farm life, crops and the social and economic life of the families in New York and Wisconsin, and the health and periodic episodes of mental illness suffered by Seneca Dwight Ritter. Many of the letters document the youth, education and development of William E. Ritter, who left his father's farm to seek an education at the State Normal School in Oshkosh, Wisconsin, the University of California, and Harvard University. William E. Ritter founded the Scripps Institution of Oceanography in 1903.

.08 linear ft. (2 boxes)

University of California, San Diego, UC San Diego Library; UCSD Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 7044449

University of California, San Diego, UC San Diego Library; UCSD Library

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Scripps Institution of Oceanography. Library. Archives.

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Scripps Institution of Oceanography

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Ritter, Nelson, 1828-1916.

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Ritter, Mary Eason, 1827-1896.

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Ritter, William Emerson, 1856-1944

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Professor of Zoology, University of California, Berkeley; member of the Harriman Alaska Expedition; director of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography at La Jolla. From the description of William E. Ritter papers, 1879-1944. (University of California, Berkeley). WorldCat record id: 122403282 American zoologist; founder and first director of the Marine Biological Association of San Diego which became the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UCSD. From the descrip...

Ritter family.

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Ezra and Mary Church Ritter married in Barnardston, Massachusetts in 1820 and moved to New Berlin, New York where their five sons were born. Two of these sons, Seneca Dwight Ritter and Horatio Ritter, left New York State with their families circa 1854 to homestead in Hampden, Wisc. Horatio and Leonora Eason Ritter, married December 23, 1847 in Orville, New York, raised five children on their Hampden homestead. Their third child, William Emerson Ritter, became a professor of zoology at the Univer...

Ritter, Horatio, 1822-1896.

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Ritter, Ella Louisa, 1853-

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Ritter, Seneca Dwight, 1820-1886.

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Ritter, Mary Emaline, 1850-

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