Clay family genealogical research papers, 1811-1965.

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Clay family genealogical research papers, 1811-1965.

The Clay family genealogical research papers consist of genealogical scrapbooks; correspondence of Edna Clay Goodspeed and Helen B. Hartman relating to their genealogical research on the Clay family and related Pennock, Mathewson, Madison, Pontius, Cobean, Hanna, Brinckerhoff, Coe, and Boyd families, with notes and family trees; some personal papers, 1916-1957, of Edna Clay Goodspeed; and the manuscript of Goodspeed's work, Some Ohio Pioneers. The scrapbooks contain original photographs of members of the Clay, Coe, Brinckerhoff, Cobean, DePuy families and their connections, circa 1850-1951; writings and correspondence, 1811-1962, including several original nineteenth-century letters, 1811-1858, with transcriptions, reflecting the everyday life of the Coe family, particularly Eliza Hanna Coe; clippings, 1903-1955; and family trees. Additional family photographs are present in the collection.

1.5 linear feet (3 boxes).

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SNAC Resource ID: 7321718

New York Public Library System, NYPL

Related Entities

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Mathewson family.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6h50r9b (family)

Goodspeed, Edna Clay.

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Edna Pearl Clay Goodspeed (1884-1963) was an active member of the Daughters of the American Revolution who served as a nurse overseas during World War I. Her ancestors included Revolutionary War soldiers Charles Mathewson, Capt. Aaron Coe, David Clay and Capt. Samuel Cobean, and tailor Otis Madison, who pioneered a new system for garment measuring and cutting in the early nineteenth century. At the time of Goodspeed's death she was preparing a history of the the Clay fam...

Coe family.

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Pennock family.

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Hartman, Helen B.

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Genealogist. From the description of Clay family genealogical research papers, [ca. 1857-1965] (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 155496160 Helen Blanchard Hartman and Jane Van Vleck were genealogists. From the description of Van Vleck family genealogical research papers, [ca. 1890-1950] (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 155496412 ...

Clay family.

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