Geoghegan family papers, 1897-1945.

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Geoghegan family papers, 1897-1945.

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The Geoghegan Family Papers contains papers of three of the Geoghegan brothers -- Richard Henry, James Theodore and John Willis Christopher. The collection is divided into series based on these names. Formerly, each series constituted a separate collection. The Richard Henry Geoghegan series is the largest of the three. It contains family papers, including genealogies, correspondence, diaries, and scrapbooks. Much of the collection relates to Geoghegan's linguistic work and includes materials on Aleut, Esperanto, Japanese, Eskimo, and Athapascan languages. The James Theodore Geoghegan series contains an autobiographical manuscript titled "Sojourn in the Yukon and Alaska", as well as photographs that Geoghegan took, mostly of the Donnelly, Alaska, area. The John Willis Christopher Geoghegan series consists of a single folder containing an autobiographical narrative.

6.55 cu. ft.

mul,

eng,

University of Alaska Fairbanks, Elmer E. Rasmuson Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 7086373

University of Alaska Fairbanks, Elmer E. Rasmuson Library

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Geoghegan, John Willis Christopher.

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Geoghegan, James Theodore.

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James Theodore Geoghegan (1869-1953), of Irish descent, was born in Birkenhead, England. In 1889 he and his brother Fred homesteaded on Orcas Island in Washington, where they were joined by their mother and siblings in 1891. The family settled at Eastsound, and James found work in Seattle. In August 1897 he joined the gold rush to the Klondike, but found little success at mining. By 1902 he had made his way to Interior Alaska. There he tried his hand at mining and commercial hunting before going...

Geoghegan, Richard Henry, 1866-1943

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Linguist. From the description of Alaska language translations, translations of Russian works, vocabulary studies of Alaska Native languages, with related correspondence, 1903-1937. (Alaska State Library). WorldCat record id: 42928932 Richard Henry Geoghegan (1866-1943), of Irish descent, was born in Birkenhead, England. Extraordinarily gifted at mastering foreign languages, he studied Chinese at Oxford and, in his spare time, attained facility in a number of other tongues f...

Geoghegan family.

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