Genealogy files, 1835-1999 (bulk 1883-1983).

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Genealogy files, 1835-1999 (bulk 1883-1983).

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Genealogical charts and correspondence, family letters, photographs, newspaper clippings, a scrapbook, architectural drawings, audio tapes, theatrical scripts, and other material relating to the Brooks, Conley, Flower, Gutherz, Hawkins, Morris, Orton, and other related families. This material was used by Virginia Dahleen Brooks in writing a history of the family of her mother-in-law, Markell Conley Brooks.

4.75 cubic feet (5 boxes).

Minnesota Historical Society Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 7316430

Minnesota Historical Society Library

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Hawkins, Quail

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American Helene Anne Quail Hawkins (1905-2002) was a bookseller and an author of children's books. She began working for Sather Gate Bookshop in 1931 and eventually became head of the adult and juvenile departments. From 1954 to 1961 she worked in sales for the University of California Press before returning to Sather Gate Bookshop as a consultant on library services and book fairs. Hawkins encouraged now-famous authors, such as Ursula K. Le Guin and Beverly Cleary, to pursue writing careers. Am...

Flaten family.

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Morris family.

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Brooks, Marney Brown

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Hawkins family.

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Brooks, Edward, 1888-1954.

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Stickney, A. B. (Alpheus Beede), 1840-1916

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Gutherz family.

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Buffington, L. S. (Leroy Sunderland), 1847-1931

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Leroy Sunderland Buffington was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, in 1847 and received all of his formal education there. His first employment was with the architectural firm of Hannaford and Anderson, whom he left in 1871 to move with his wife of two years to St. Paul. He entered partnership with Abraham Radcliffe, an established architect, which lasted until 1874 when he moved to Minneapolis and opened an office that he continued to maintain until 1931. He had no partners.In 1880, he was appointed the...

Brooks, Markell Conley, 1899-1971.

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Markell Conley Brooks (1899-1971) was a daughter of John Thomas Conley and Grace Hawkins Flower. She married Minnesota lumberman Edward Brooks (1888-1954) on April 5, 1920. Brooks was for many years the president of Brooks-Scanlon, Inc., Minneapolis. He was the son of Dwight Frederick Brooks and a grandson of Sheldon Brooks, of Winona County, Minnesota. Markell and Edward had four children: Conley Brooks, Edward Brooks, Jr., Anna Markell Brooks, and Dwight Frederick Brooks II. Edwar...

Brooks family.

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Flowers family.

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Eastcliff (Saint Paul, Minn.).

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Wangensteen family.

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Brooks, Virginia Dahleen, 1928-.

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Grythe family.

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Orton family.

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Connelly family.

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Rongerud family.

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Flower, M. D. (Mark Deloss), 1842-1907.

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