Papers, 1862-1951 [microform].

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Papers, 1862-1951 [microform].

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The collection includes personal correspondence and other papers of Charles A. Kofoid and his wife, Carrie Prudence Winter Kofoid. The collection is arranged in eight series: Correspondence, Biographical files, Diaries and address books, Financial records, Writings series, Newspaper clippings, Kofoid Library and Photographs. The Correspondence series includes letters written and received by the Kofoids, their families and friends. Correspondence dated 1862-1890 includes substantial documentation of the Winter family of Connecticut and the Kofoid family of Illinois. It also includes documentation of Oberlin College, the Kofoids' alma mater. Winter family correspondence includes letters of Mrs. Kofoid's parents, Rev. Alpheus Winter and Flora Dameris Thompson Winter, her sister Julia Flora Winter Hatch (1873-1908), a missionary to Rhodesia and her lifelong friend Emma Beecher Penfield. Kofoid family correspondence includes letters from Charles Kofoids father, Nelson Kofoid. The collection includes many letters dated 1890-1893 exchanged by the Kofoids during their courtship, when Carrie Prudence Winter was teaching at the Kawaiahao Seminary in Honolulu and Charles Kofoid was a student of zoology at Harvard. The collection includes substantial documentation of Charles Kofoid's association with the Marine Biological Station at San Diego which became the Scripps Institution of Oceanography. The collection includes documentation of Kofoid's 1908 tour of European biological stations, which greatly influenced the programs and buildings of the Scripps Institution.

16 cubic ft.

University of California, San Diego, UC San Diego Library; UCSD Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 7319010

University of California, San Diego, UC San Diego Library; UCSD Library

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Oberlin College

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Scripps Institution of Oceanography. Library. Archives.

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Scripps Institution of Oceanography

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Winters family.

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Winter, Flora Dameris Thompson, 1834-1919,

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Winter, Alpheus, 1838-1908,

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Kofoid, Carrie Prudence, 1866-1942.

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Kofoid, Nelson

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Penfield, Emma Beecher.

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Hatch, Julia Flora Winter, 1873-1908.

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Kofoid, Charles A. (Charles Atwood), 1865-1947

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Charles A. Kofoid was a professor of zoology at the University of California, Berkeley. From the description of Charles A. Kofoid correspondence : additions, 1928-1938. (University of California, Berkeley). WorldCat record id: 26872497 Charles Atwood Kofoid was born in 1865 in Granville, Putnam County, Illinois. He received an A.B. from Oberlin College in 1890, A.M. Harvard, 1892, PhD Harvard, 1894. He married Prudence Winter, a fellow student at Obe...

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