Sumner-Rockwell collection, 1854-1925.

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Sumner-Rockwell collection, 1854-1925.

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Correspondence, bills, receipts, and other business and personal papers, of William Graham Sumner (1840-1910), professor of political science and sociology at Yale University; his son, Eliot Sumner (1873-1941), of Philadelphia, associated with the Pennsylvania Railroad, and his wife, Katherine Diana Ward (Rockwell) Sumner (1873-1936); Mrs. Sumner's parents, Alfred Perkins Rockwell (1834-1903), professor of mineralogy at Yale and businessman, and Katherine Virginia (Foote) Rockwell (1839-1902); and Mrs. Rockwell's father, businessman Samuel Edmund Foote (1787-1858).

1 box (375 items)

New Haven Colony Historical Society Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 7371539

New Haven Colony Historical Society Library

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Pennsylvania Railroad

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The Pennsylvania Railroad Company was the largest railroad in the United States in terms of corporate assets and traffic from the last quarter of the nineteenth century until the decline of the northeast's and midwest's dominance of manufacturing, caused by the evolution of the interstate highway system and the advancements in air transportation. Originally created by Philadelphia merchants in 1846, it sought to build a trunk route from Philadelphia to Pittsburgh via the Allegheny Mountains to c...

Sumner, William Graham, 1840-1910

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William Graham Sumner was born in Paterson, New Jersey on October 30, 1840. He graduated from Yale University (B.A., 1863) and studied in Europe (1863-1866). He served as a tutor at Yale (1866-1869) and was ordained as a priest of the Calvary Church in New York City in 1869. In 1872 Sumner was appointed to the newly created chair of political and social science at Yale. He retired as professor emeritus in 1909. Sumner was an educational and administrative leader at Yale, and had a substantive im...

Rockwell, Alfred Perkins, 1834-1903

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Mining engineer, professor at M.I.T. In Colorado summer 1871 to lead a student tour of the mining districts near Central City, Georgetown, and Golden City, with a side trip to Salt Lake City, Utah. From the description of Papers, 1871-1872. (Denver Public Library). WorldCat record id: 13807106 Mining engineer and soldier. From the description of Papers, 1857-1859. (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 36405133 Mining engineer, army officer, and ...

Foote, Samuel Edmond, 1787-1858.

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Rockwell family.

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Sumner, Eliot, 1873-1941

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Rockwell, Katherine Virginia Foote, 1873-1936.

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Sumner, Katherine Diana Ward Rockwell, 1873-1936

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Yale University.

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Sumner family.

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Summers family.

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