Trist Wood papers, 1808-1952 [manuscript].

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Trist Wood papers, 1808-1952 [manuscript].

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Originals and copies of wills, deeds, inventories, letters, and other papers related to families of several states, from colonial times to the 20th century, and extensive compilations of family histories gathered by Trist Wood of New Orleans. Papers are chiefly of families united in the Wood family of Louisiana, and include the Wood and Crooke families of Rhode Island, the Dabney and Jennings families of Virginia, the Taylor and Trist families of Virginia and Louisiana, and others. Also included are papers of the Bringier family of Ascension Parish and New Orleans, 1808-1852, including many items relating to the buying and selling of slaves; the diary of Robert Crooke Wood (1799-1869) of Rhode Island, while an army surgeon during the Mexican War, 1846-1847; letters from H.B. Trist (1802-1856), Louisiana sugar planter, to his family, particularly to his children at school, 1852-1856; recollections of Trist Wood's father, Robert Crooke Wood (1832-1900), New Orleans businessman, city councilman, and active Confederate veteran, including letters to his family while traveling in the U.S. in the 1870s and in Mexico and Colombia in the 1880s; and letters from Trist Wood while he worked as an artist and editor for a monthly magazine, The Quartier Latin, in Paris and London, 1893-1905. There are also collected papers and photographs relating to Zachary Taylor (1784-1850), and a scrapbook, compiled in 1898, of clippings and a poem concerning Aubrey Beardsley.

8,350 items (12.0 linear feet).

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University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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Crooke family.

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Wood, Robert Crooke, 1799-1860.

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Jennings family.

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Taylor, Zachary, 1784-1850

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Wood family.

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United States. Army

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Trist family.

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Bringier family.

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Wood, Trist, d. 1952.

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Trist Wood (d. 1952) of New Orleans, La., artist and genealogist, who compiled extensive records on his own and related families and on Zachary Taylor, from whom he was descended. From the description of Trist Wood papers, 1808-1952 [manuscript]. WorldCat record id: 22883752 Trist Wood (died 1952) of New Orleans, Louisiana, appears to have chiefly worked as an artist, editor, and illustrator. After 1915, he seems to have turned his attention to genealogy, compil...