Papers, 1824-1956 (bulk 1889-1939).

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Papers, 1824-1956 (bulk 1889-1939).

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Collection consists of correspondence, postcards, photographs, passports, poems, menus, and lists related to the Parsons family (1824-1956, bulk 1889-1939). Much of the material is personal correspondence among family members, particluarly letters from eldest daughter Mary Parsons. Correspondence describes family members' trips abroad and their life in New York City and Lenox,

1.3 linear ft. (3 boxes)

New-York Historical Society

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SNAC Resource ID: 7768840

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Wharton, Edith, 1862-1937

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Born Edith Newbold Jones on January 24, 1862, in New York City, Edith Wharton was from birth a part of the wealthy New York society she depicted so vividly in her fiction. Through her father, George Frederic Jones, and her mother, Lucretia Stevens Rhinelander Jones, she could claim descent from three families whose names were synonymous with wealth and position: the Stevenses, Rhinelanders, and Schermerhorns. Educated at home with tutors and exposed at an early age to the classics in her fath...

Parsons, Edith, 1865-1942.

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Hare, Constance Parsons, b. 1873.

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Parsons, John E. (John Edward), 1829-1915.

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Parsons family.

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The Parsons family lived in New York City and Lenox, Massachusetts. John Edward Parsons married Mary Dumesnil, daughter of Bowes Reed McIlvaine and Catherine Dumesnil, and they had six children. Daughters Mary and Gertrude never married and lived at the family's estate in Lenox after their father's death. Edith married David Percy Morgan. Helen died unmarried at the age of 25. Herbert married folklorist Elsie Clews and was a Congressman from 1905-1911. Constance married attorney Montgomery Hare....

McIlvaine, Bowes Reed.

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Parsons, Gertrude, 1870-1927.

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Dumesnil, Catherine

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Parsons, Herbert, 1869-1925.

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Parsons, Mary Dumesnil, 1864-1940.

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