Norman White Cary papers, 1866-1870 (inclusive).

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Norman White Cary papers, 1866-1870 (inclusive).

The papers consist of letters exchanged between Norman White Cary and his mother and sister during his four years at Yale College. The letters provide a detailed record of his life as a student with accounts of studies, finances, social and cultural events, and life in New Haven. His mother's letters are intensely solicitous of Cary's physical and moral well-being, but also describe family happenings and social life in Philadelphia where she was head of a school for young ladies.

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SNAC Resource ID: 8022843

Yale University Library

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Cary, Gertrude Jenkins.

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Cary, Norman White, 1849-1928.

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Norman White Cary was born in New York City, New York, on October 29, 1849. He graduated from Yale with the Class of 1870 and received an A.M. from Yale in 1873. That same year, he also graduated from Princeton Theological Seminary. He entered the ministry of the Presbyterian Church and was pastor over numerous churches along the east coast and in the northern Midwest. Around 1885, he had the desire to teach and began a school in North Dakota, then moved to Baltimore to learn chemistry and physi...

Yale University.

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Yale University. Class of 1884

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