Keyes-Brown family papers, 1834-1932.

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Keyes-Brown family papers, 1834-1932.

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Papers, 1834-1932, of or relating primarily to three generations of the Keyes-Brown families, including John Shepard Keyes family (Martha Lawrence Prescott; Prescott and Alice Reynolds Keyes); (Simon Brown and Ann Caroline French Brown); George Keyes family (George and Mary E. Brown Keyes; George S. and Alice Brown Keyes); Grace and Marion Keyes. Series I. John Shepard Keyes family (Martha Lawrence Prescott; Prescott and Alice Reynolds Keyes), 1834-1925: includes Martha Lawrence Prescott's diary, 1834-1836; Prescott Keyes papers (dated items: 1918, 1919) including letters and a manuscript; Alice Reynolds' scrapbooks, Volume I: 1877-[1886], Volume II: 1880-1925. Scrapbooks contain newspaper clippings (Concord-related and other), obituaries, and drawings. Subjects include Henry David Thoreau, Daniel Chester French, Ralph Waldo Emerson's funeral, the Lexington Pageant, 1925. Series II. Simon Brown and Ann Caroline French Brown, (1843-1897): includes newspaper clippings (pieces by S. Brown), manuscripts, two photographs of A.C.F. Brown, ephemera. Series III. George Keyes family (George and Mary E. Brown Keyes; George S. and Alice Brown Keyes), 1859-1931: includes George Keyes letters to wife and father-in law and records of Emerson Statue Committee. The Emerson Statue Committee subseries contains correspondence from D. C. French, 1910-1931; vote at Town Meeting, 1896 (typed transcript) and vote at 1905 meeting of the committee; correspondence relating to fundraising, 1905-1909 and 1910, 1914 (chronologically arranged); D. C. French correspondence (primarily with George A. King), 1896-1910; printed ephemera related to the committee and its work, 1906-1914; items relating to the unveiling of the statue in 1914; financials, 1910-1914. Series IV. Financial papers of George Keyes and children (George S., Grace, Marion), 1876-1899: includes financial information (accounts, bills, and receipts) of George Keyes and his children George S., Grace, and Marion. Many Concord and some Boston businesses and individuals are represented.

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Concord Free Public Library, Special Collection

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Brown, Simon, 1802-1873

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Editor of New England farmer. Born in Newburyport, Mass.; lived in Newburyport, Chester, N.H., Hingham, Mass., Newport, N.H., Concord, N.H., Washington, D.C., and Concord, Mass. Printer, publisher, editor, writer, and lecturer. Published Hingham gazette, New Hampshire spectator, and Concord freeman (Concord, Mass.). (Cont.) Librarian of the U.S. House of Representatives. Politically active as a Democrat, a Know-Nothing, and a Free-Soiler. Assistant Secretary of State in ...

Keyes, Marion Brown, 1860-1944

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Brown, Ann Caroline French, 1808-1898

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Keyes, Alice M. Brown (Alice Munroe Brown), 1879-1963

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Keyes, Prescott

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Lawyer; district court judge; director, vice president, and president of Concord (Mass.) National Bank; trustee of Middlesex Institution for Savings; president of Middlesex Mutual Fire Insurance Company; resident of Concord and active member of local boards and committees. Born in Concord in 1858 to John Shepard and Martha Lawrence Prescott Keyes; died in Concord in 1943. Married Alice Reynolds (d. 1927) in 1881 and Grace Cahoon Boutwell (d. 1936) in 1928. From the description of Som...

Emerson, Annie Keyes, 1847-1928

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Keys family.

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The Keyes family of Concord, Massachusetts was descended from Westford storekeeper Joseph Keyes (1746-1823). John Keyes (1787-1844), son of Joseph and his second wife Sarah Boyden Keyes, moved to Concord in 1811. John Keyes was a lawyer, and served as Postmaster, Middlesex County Treasurer, Massachusetts Representative and Senator. He was the first in a line of prominent Concord citizens. John Keyes married Ann Stow Shepard in 1815. Their children included John Shepard (1821-1910) and George (18...

Keyes, Mary E., 1831-1886

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Keyes, Grace B., 1866-

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Keyes, George, 1832-1893

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Concord (Mass.). Ralph Waldo Emerson Statue Committee

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Concord, Massachusetts appointed a committee at Town Meeting in 1896 "to erect some at some suitable place in Concord, a statue of Ralph Waldo Emerson ... to act ... in concert with other persons and to take such action as ... expedient to carry this purpose to a successful result. This committee, however, is not empowered to incur any expenses or liability on behalf of the town." Committee members appointed in 1896 to raise funds and make arrangements included George A. King; John S. Keyes; Sam...

Keyes, Alice Reynolds

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Brown family.

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Keyes, Alicia M. (Alicia Mulliken), 1855-1924

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Artist & art teacher/lecturer; resident of Concord, Mass. Born in Concord, daughter of John Shepard Keyes & Martha Lawrence Prescott Keyes, 6/13/1855; died in Concord 6/1/1924. Sister of Annie S. Keyes (Mrs. Edward Waldo Emerson), Florence Keyes (Mrs. Charles Walcott), & Prescott Keyes. Stayed with Emersons, under particular care of Ellen Emerson, during winter of 1862, when Keyes family lived in Boston. After Civil War, family bought Bullet Hole House on Monument Street...

Keyes, George Shepard, 1869-1942

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