Cobb-Blanchard family papers, 1908-1957.

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Cobb-Blanchard family papers, 1908-1957.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/670107876

Papers of the related Cobb and Blanchard families. The bulk of the collection consists of the reminiscences of Alice Vara (Proctor) Cobb, mostly in typescript, entitled "As I Remember It." Included are descriptions of her childhood in 19th-century Spencer, Mass.; her education and work on the family farm; her memories of the outbreak of the Civil War and the assassination of President Lincoln; her early interest in botany; her marriage to Nathan Augustus Cobb in 1881; and other subjects. The collection also contains a printed biographical sketch of botanist and nematologist Nathan A. Cobb by his daughter Frieda Cobb Blanchard; biographical information about herpetologist Frank Nelson Blanchard and an excerpt from his diary describing the 12 Apr. 1908 fire in Chelsea, Mass.; and five postcards of Chelsea after the fire. Most of the papers are photocopies.

1 narrow box.

Massachusetts Historical Society

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SNAC Resource ID: 7963653

Massachusetts Historical Society

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Blanchard, Frank N. (Frank Nelson), 1888-1937

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Cobb, Nathan Augustus, 1859-1932

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Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865

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Abraham Lincoln (born February 12, 1809, Sinking Spring Farm near Hodgenville, Kentucky-died April 15, 1865, Washington, D.C.) was the sixteenth President of the United States from 1861 until his death by assassination. He was the son of a Kentucky frontiersman, Thomas Lincoln, and Nancy Hanks. In 1816, Lincoln moved to Pigeon Creek, Indiana, where he worked on his family's farm. Following his mother's death two years later, he continued working on farms until moving with his father to New Sa...

Blanchard, Frieda Cobb, 1889-1977.

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Cobb, Alice Vara Proctor, 1854-1951.

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