Wickham family papers, 1785-1958 (inclusive), 1814-1901 (bulk).

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Wickham family papers, 1785-1958 (inclusive), 1814-1901 (bulk).

The papers contain correspondence, family papers, diaries, sermons, photoprints, and other materials documenting the personal lives and professional careers of Joseph Dresser Wickham, Elizabeth Cooke Merwin Wickham and several Wickham, Merwin, Porter, and Roe relatives. The Wickham family papers have extensive material on such family subjects as relationships between brothers and sisters and parents and children, courtship, death, marriage, and the difficulties endured by stepmothers and clergymen's wives and on secondary education in the mid-nineteenth century, missionary work, religious conditions in Vermont, and Connecticut social life and customs.

11.5 linear ft. (27 boxes)

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SNAC Resource ID: 8019975

Yale University Library

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Stowell, Abijah, 1815-1889.

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Smith, Truman, 1791-1884

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Furniss, Henry B.

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Wickham, Abigail, 1809-1872.

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Plumb, Elijah W. (Elijah Whiton), 1798-1879

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Newton, Ephraim H. (Ephraim Holland), 1787-1864

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Isham, Pierpont.

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Torrey, E. M.

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Hinsdale, Charles J. (Charles James), 1796-1871

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Burnham, William R.

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Adriance, Isaac, 1794-1862.

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Oxford Academy (Oxford, N.Y.)

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Bacon, Thomas Scott, 1825-1904.

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Merwin, Samuel John Miles, 1819-1888.

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Burr and Burton Seminary (Manchester, Vt.)

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Merwin, Clarina Bradley Taylor, 1788-1859.

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Wickham, Daniel Hull, 1771-1853.

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Wickham, Mary Dresser, 1776-1854.

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Roberts, E. P.

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Stebbins, Esther Wickham, 1802-1854.

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Stone, Randolph, 1790-1843.

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Hall, Emily Baldwin Merwin, 1821-

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Schauffler, Mary Reynolds.

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Prentiss, George Lewis, 1816-1903

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Wilcox, Philo Beckwith, 1818-1898.

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Wickham, Daniel Hull, 1812-1893.

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Thompson, M. L. P. (Matthew LaRue Perrine), 1809-1887

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Hall, Gordon, 1823-1879

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Carpenter, Amos, 1753-1832

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Hamlin, Cyrus, 1811-1900

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Roe, Alfred Cox, 1823-1901.

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Porter Eleazar, 1806-1886.

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Harris, John.

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Bascom, W. F.

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Snell, Moses Porter, 1839-1909.

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Yale College (1887- ). Class of 1949

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Roe, Joseph Wickham, 1871-

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Glen, William R.

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Pratt, P. S.

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Roe, Mary Wickham, 1863-1941.

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Douglass, Thomas E.

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Stafford, Ward, 1788-1851

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Ellsworth, J. C.

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Roe, Emma Wickham, 1832-1906.

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Labaree, Benjamin, 1801-1883

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Dean, Velie H.

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Merwin, Alexander Moss, 1839-1905.

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Wickham, Joseph D. (Joseph Dresser), 1797-1891

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Wickham family.

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Elizabeth Cooke Merwin Wickham (1810-1901): third wife of Joseph Dresser Wickham, was preceptress of Oxford Academy in Oxford, New York 1832-1834. Joseph Dresser Wickham (1797-1891): clergyman and educator, was principal of Burr Seminary in Manchester, Vermont 1837-1862 and trustee of Middlebury College 1840-1891. From the description of Wickham family papers, 1785-1958 (inclusive), 1814-1901 (bulk). (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 702153775 ...

Smith, Thomas Mather, 1796-1864

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Landon, Caroline Powell Roe, 1859-1897.

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Bonney, Elijah Hayward, 1816-1882.

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Steele, Joseph, 1706-1788

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Sanford, Ezekiel, 1796-1822

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Merwin, Timothy Taylor, 1807-1885.

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Loomis, Aretas.

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Merwin, Samuel, 1781-1856.

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Taylor, Timothy L., 1951-

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Leonard, William R.

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Gilbert, Simeon.

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Ludlow, H. G. (Henry Gilbert), 1797-1867

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Coleman, Lyman, 1796-1882

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Roe family.

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Marvin, Clarina B. Merwin, 1815-1899.

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Kibbe, Simeon Terry, 1794-1825.

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Clark, A. Graham (Alexander Graham)

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Anderson, James, 1798-1886

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