LeConte, Emma - photograph album, 1900.

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LeConte, Emma - photograph album, 1900.

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The collection consists of an album which includes 82 photographs. These photographs were apparently taken during one or more camping trips by Joseph LeConte with family members and others in the area of Kings River Canyon, California and the Sierra Nevada. See the accession folder for an article by Joseph LeConte about his trip to this area.

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SNAC Resource ID: 7531221

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Leconte family

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LeConte, Emma.

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Emma Florence Le Conte Furman (1847-1932) married Farish Carter Furman (1846-1883) in 1869. They lived on the family plantation at Scottsboro, near Milledgeville, Georgia. Her diary of Columbia, South Carolina before and after the devastation by Sherman's forces was edited by E.S. Miers and published as When the World Ended (N.Y.: 1957). Farish Carter Furman was probably a grandson of Dorothea McDonald Furman and the Rev. Dr. Richard Furman (1755-1825), Baptist minister. Farish Carter Furman was...

LeConte, Joseph, 1823-1901

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Joseph LeConte, born in 1823, graduated from the University of Georgia in 1841. He enrolled in the College of Physicians and Surgeons in 1844 and received an M.D. in 1845. He married Elizabeth Caroline Nisbet in 1847 and established a medical practice in Macon. Because his first love was geology, however, he enrolled in the Lawrence Scientific School of Harvard College in 1850 to study with the famous naturalist Louis Agassiz. Upon completing his studies in 1851 he returned to Georgia and became...