Alfred Vail's genealogical research papers, ca. 1851-1902.

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Alfred Vail's genealogical research papers, ca. 1851-1902.

Correspondence, research notes and notebooks, and family charts on the Vail family, compiled by Alfred Vail, including questionnaires completed by family members.

15.5 linear feet (32 boxes).

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SNAC Resource ID: 7882733

New York Public Library System, NYPL

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Vail, Alfred, 1807-1859

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Genealogist. From the description of Vail family genealogical research papers, [ca. 1851-1858] (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 155497730 Inventor. From the description of Papers of Alfred Vail, 1835-1938. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 82098840 Alfred Vail, a co-inventor of the telegraph, was born in Morristown, New Jersey on September 25, 1807 to Bethiah Youngs and Stephen Vail. On September 2, 1837, he witnessed one of Professor Samuel F.P. Morse's firs...

Vail family.

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Vail, Henry Hobart, 1839-1925

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Jerimiah Vail was born about 1618 in the west of England, emigrated to New England in 1639 and first located in Salem. Massachusetts. Moved to Southold, Long Island and died there in 1687. From the description of Vail genealogy typescript / by Henry H. Vail. 1902. (Scranton Public Library). WorldCat record id: 48215889 ...