Bledsoe-Herrick family papers, 1750-1964 (inclusive), 1819-1954 (bulk).

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Bledsoe-Herrick family papers, 1750-1964 (inclusive), 1819-1954 (bulk).

The Bledsoe-Herrick family papers contain genealogies, memoirs, correspondence, writings, and photographs of various members of the Coxe, Bledsoe, Herrick, Fox, Wall, and Hunt families. A substantial amount of the correspondence and manuscripts in the collection center on Sophia Bledsoe Herrick. The bulk of this is a long series of letters to her daughter, Louise Herrick Wall.

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Wall, Francis Richardson, 1859-1919.

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Bristol College, Pennsylvania.

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Fox family.

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Walls family.

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Bledsoe family.

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Sophia McIlvaine Bledsoe Herrick (1857-1919) was born in Ohio, the daughter of a mathematics professor, Albert Taylor Bledsoe, who taught at the Universities of Mississippi and Virginia. She married Rev. James Burton Herrick in 1860, but they separated in 1868 over his interest in the Oneida Community. With her three children, she went to Baltimore to head her father's girls' school, and was later an editor of The Southern Review, Scribner's Monthly, and Century Magazine. From the de...

Fox, Hugh Francis, 1863-1932.

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Bledsoe, Harriet Coxe, 1811-1887.

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Herrick, Sophia McIlvaine Bledsoe, 1837-1919.

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Herrick, Albert Bledsoe, 1862-1938.

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Bledsoe, Albert Taylor, 1809-1877

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Albert Taylor Bledsoe (1809-1877), a Confederate official, editor, and author, was the first-born son of Moses Ousley and Sophia Childress Taylor. A fellow student of Jefferson Davis and Robert E. Lee at West Point Military Academy in 1830, Bledsoe performed military duty at western Indian forts. After graduating from Kenyon College in Ohio, he taught mathematics and French at Kenyon and later Miami University. He praticed law for ten years in Springfield, Illinois from 1838-48 but returned to t...

Herrick family.

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Miami University (Oxford, Ohio)

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Miami University, a student centered public university was chartered in 1809 and opened its doors to students in 1823. Named after the Miami Indians who once resided in Ohio, Miami is one of the oldest public institutions in the country. The Miami University Board of Trustees has existed since the schools founding. As the schools governing body, the Board of Trustees is regulated to direct the organization in the actions necessary for the university's successful and continuous operation. The Uni...

Hunt, Edward E. (Edward Eyre), 1885-1953

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Edward Eyre Hunt (1885-1953), Harvard graduate, war correspondent, and author, was a member of the Committee on Elimination of Waste in Industry, Federated American Engineering Societies in 1920. He served as secretary of the U.S. Coal Commission from 1922 to 1923, and was secretary of the President's Emergency Committee on Employment from 1930 to 1931. From 1930 to 1933, he served as secretary of the President's Research Committee on Recent Social Trends. From the description of Hun...

Hunt family.

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Cox family.

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Fox, Virginia McIlvaine Herrick, 1863-

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Wall, Louise Herrick, 1866-

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