Terry and Bacon families papers, 1789-1919.

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Terry and Bacon families papers, 1789-1919.

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Primarily correspondence among several generations of a Hartford and New Haven, Connecticut, family. The correspondence describes daily life of an upper middle class family, a number of whom became doctors, lawyers and ministers and lived and traveled all over the world. Adrian R. Terry wrote to his family while in Ecuador, 1931-1932, trying to establish his medical practice there. He received numerous letters in return. Of particular note are bills for medical supplies shipped from New York City to Adrian in South America. Alfred Terry described his studies at Yale, 1817-1819, and with Judge Gould in Litchfield, Conn., 1823-1824. Charles A. Terry wrote from Cleveland, Ohio, where he practiced as a physician. Catherine Terry Bacon and Leonard Bacon raised eleven children all of whom carried on a correspondence with each other and with their mother. Their children were Rebecca T. Bacon, who was a noted educator, Leonard W. Bacon, George B. Bacon (who in 1855 sailed to Hong Kong and Shanghai), Thomas R. Bacon and Edward W. Bacon who were ministers, Francis Bacon who was a physician in Galveston, Texas, Theodore Bacon who was a lawyer, Alfred T. Bacon who was a cattle farmer, Ellen B. Bacon Closson, and Alice M. Bacon who taught in Virginia and Japan and founded a nurses training school in Hampton, Virginia for African-American women. Daughter Katherine W. Bacon married Eugene Smith, a New York City prison reformer. Of note is correspondence from Leonard and Leonard W. to their family while they were traveling throughout Europe and the Middle East in 1850-51. Among the more noted correspondents are Samuel L. Clemens, Edward Everett, Rutherford B. Hayes, Oliver Wendell Holmes, William Dean Howells, Lydia Sigourney, Charles Dudley Warner and Noah Webster.

2.0 linear feet (4 boxes, 1 envelope)

Connecticut Historical Society

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