Family papers, 1736-1971.

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Family papers, 1736-1971.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/35132647

Principally the papers of Catherine Berry Pilcher Avery, but also includes papers of her husband, Dr. Roy C. Avery, her parents, Meritt Scott Pilcher and Margaret Bryan Pilcher, and other members of the Pilcher, Bryan, Berry, Dewees, and Tannehill families. Mrs. Avery was a lifelong resident of Nashville, Tennessee, and many of the papers relate to the history of that city and its institutions. The papers include correspondence, diaries and journals, legal documents, genealogical data, photographs, scrapbooks, and postcards. Correspondents of note include Oswald Theodore Avery, Roy Crowdy Avery, Albert Gleaves Berry, Ferdinand Berry, Mary Lillian Berry, Hardy Bryan, Stanley Fisk Bryan, Eliza Tannehill Gleaves, Mary Berry Knoble, Marie Louise Mis, Margaret Bryan Pilcher, Meritt Scott Pilcher, and Margaret Avery Ritchie. Topics include Virginia Civil War campaigns; the naval career of Admiral Albert Gleaves Berry; Oswald T. Avery's service as a bacteriologist during World War I; and Stanley Fisk Bryan's World War I service in Europe. Diaries and journals are those of Mary Coburn Dewees (1787-1788), Nancy Barrow Pilcher (1845), Eliza Tannehill Gleaves (1846-1878), Mary Elizabeth Hunt (1848-1852), Julia Newberry (1871), and Catherine Berry Pilcher Avery (1908-1909, 1915, 1917). There are also reminiscences about Nashville written by Meritt S. Pilcher in 1934.

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Bryan, Stanley Fisk, 1891-1932.

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Berry, Ferdinand, 1841-1862.

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Pilcher, Meritt Scott, 1850-1936.

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Hunt, Mary Elizabeth, fl. 1846-1854.

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Ritchie, Margaret Avery, 1930-

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Mis, Mary Louise.

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Dewees, Mary Coburn, fl. 1780-1789.

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Avery, Roy C. (Roy Crowdy), 1885-1971

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Roy Crowdy Avery was born in Canada in 1885. He became a naturalized U.S. citizen in 1917 and immediately joined the U.S. Army for service during World War I. He later became a professor of bacteriology and immunology at Vanderbilt University. From the description of Roy Crowdy Avery Collection, 1917-1971. (Vanderbilt University Library). WorldCat record id: 59554463 ...

Berry, Albert Gleaves, 1848-1938.

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Pilcher, Nancy Coburn, 1812-1885.

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Built and launched at New York Navy Yard; commissioned Nov. 12, 1944; scraped in 1993. Served in World War II, the Korean War and the Vietnam War. From the description of USS Bon Homme Richard (CV/CVA-31) photograph collection 1944-1971. (The Mariners' Museum Library). WorldCat record id: 41657866 The federal government decided in 1941 to send Supply Corps personnel to Harvard Business School for training in the business of equipping the Navy. This was effected by a transfer...

Avery, Catherine Berry Pilcher, 1894-1984.

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Historian, genealogical researcher, and registrar of the National Society of the Colonial Dames in Tennessee. From the description of Family papers, 1736-1971. (Tennessee State Library & Archives). WorldCat record id: 35132647 ...

Tannehill family.

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Bryant family.

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Bryan, Hardy, 1828-1885.

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Berry, Mary Lillian, 1882-

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Gleaves, Eliza Tannehill, 1823-1884.

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Berry family.

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Pilchard family.

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Pilcher, Margaret Bryan, 1867-1959.

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Deweese family.

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Avery, Oswald Theodore, 1877-1955

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Rufus Ivory Cole served as the the director and physician-in-charge (1909-1937) of the Hospital of the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research, the first hospital in the United States devoted primarily to the investigation of disease. Cole's medical research centered on problems relating to immunity to diseases of the respiratory system, particularly pneumonia From the guide to the Rufus Ivory Cole papers, ca. 1900-1966, 1900-1966, (American Philosophical Society) Researc...

Newberry, Julia, d. 1876.

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Knoble, Mary Berry, 1846-1933.

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