Strong family collection, 1667-1925 (inclusive).

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Strong family collection, 1667-1925 (inclusive).

The collection consists of correspondence, legal and financial papers, diaries, writings, autographs, and other papers documenting the lives and activities of several generations of Strong family members and related Fowler, Pond, and Huntington families of Massachusetts and Connecticut. The bulk of the collection concerns the extended family of Phinehas Strong of Northampton, Massachusetts, and relates to the teaching and agriculture pursuits of family members in Ohio, Michigan, Virginia, and Louisiana. The career of Josephine Strong, a teacher of freedmen, is highlighted. Papers of the Connecticut Strong families relate primarily to the colonial era and Revolutionary War, Milford town history, and Chatham, Milford, and Norwich church history.

6.75 linear ft. (16 boxes, 1 folio)

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SNAC Resource ID: 8027404

Yale University Library

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Grant, Ulysses Simpson, 1822-1885

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Ulysses S. Grant (born Hiram Ulysses Grant, April 27, 1822, Point Pleasant, Ohio-died July 23, 1885, Wilton, New York) was the 18th president of the United States, serving from 1869 to 1877. As president, Grant was an effective civil rights executive who worked with the Radical Republicans during Reconstruction to protect African Americans, created the Justice Department, and reestablish the public credit. Promoted lieutenant-general, in 1864, Grant led the Union Army in winning the American Civ...

Amherst College

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Founded in 1821, Amherst College developed out of the secondary school Amherst Academy. The college was originally suggested as an alternative to Williams College, which was struggling to stay open. Although Williams survived, Amherst was formed and diverged into its own institution....

Strong, Henry, 1788-1852.

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Strong, Henry Hastings, 1860-1928.

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Fowler family.

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Strong, Cyprian, 1743-1811

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Cyprian Strong (1743-1811) was a 1763 Yale graduate and served as minister of the Congregational Church in Portland, Conn., from 1767 until his death. He adhered to the "New Light Divinity" and strongly opposed the Half-Way Covenant. From the description of Papers, 1764-1816. (American Antiquarian Society). WorldCat record id: 191308989 ...

Clapp, Henry Lincoln.

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Edwards, Jonathan, 1703-1758

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Jonathan Edwards (1703-1758) was a colonial American Congregational preacher and theologian. He was president of the College of New Jersey (now Princeton University) from February 1758 to his death, one month later. From the description of Jonathan Edwards family collection, 1723-1798. (Princeton University Library). WorldCat record id: 276567983 American theologian. From the description of Autograph letter signed : Stockbridge, to The Reverend Joseph Bellamy, 17...

Strong, Josephine Elizabeth, 1838-1911.

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Strong, Ephraim, 1714-1802.

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Pond family.

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Strong family.

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The Strong family includes representatives of the extended family of Phinehas Strong of Northampton, Massachusetts, and of Strong families in Chatham, Milford, and Norwich, Connecticut. Members of the Massachusetts Strong family include Noah Lyman Strong, an official of the Boston Custom House during the Civil War; his wife Elizabeth Fowler Strong; his daughter Josephine Elizabeth Strong, a teacher of freedmen during and after the Civil War; and his sister Eunice Strong, a teacher in Ohio in the...

Strong, Eunice.

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Yale University. Class of 1884

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Strong, Joseph, 1753-1834

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Huntington family.

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Beecher, Catharine Esther, 1800-1878

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Educator Catharine Esther Beecher, a daughter of Lyman Beecher, was an advocate of education for women and of women teachers. In 1823 she founded the Hartford Female Seminary to educate young women. In 1846, she began a project to send female teachers from the Eastern states to western states and territories, and established training schools for women teachers in several western cities. From the description of Letter, 1847. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 548941345 ...

Trumbull, Jonathan, 1710-1785

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Governor of Conn. From the description of Autograph letter signed : Lebanon, to Major-General Huntington, 1779 Mar. 24. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270573362 From the description of Autograph letter signed : Hartford, to Thomas Mumford in Groton, 1781 Aug. 25. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270573366 From the description of Autograph letter signed : Lebanon, to Major-General Huntington and Captain Mumford, 1779 Jun. 30. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270573357 ...

American Home Missionary Society

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The American Home Missionary Society was formed in 1826 by the Congregational and other Protestant churches to financially assist congregations until they could be self-sufficient. From the description of American Home Missionary Society records, 1825-1837. (Detroit Public Library). WorldCat record id: 663880998 In 1826 the Congregational, Presbyterian, Reformed and Associated Reformed churches formed the American Home Missionary Society to coordinate their national missiona...

Clark, Lewis, 1903-1988

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Lewis (also spelled Louis) Enoch Clark, the donor of this genealogy, was born on January 31, 1903, in Springville, Utah County, Utah. His parents were James Henry Clark and Mary Alepha Barnett. He married Hazel Murphy on December 27, 1926, in Richfield, Utah. Hazel passed away in childbirth, along with her infant, Louis, on June 12, 1927, in Las Vegas, Clark County, Nevada. Clark married Lula Daphin Odekirk on June 5, 1933, in Heber, Utah. No children are recorded for the family. Clark passed aw...

Strong, Phinehas, d. 1855.

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Strong, Noah Lyman, 1807-1893

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Landowner, of Northampton, Mass. From the description of Deed, 1769 June 27. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 70976073 Operator of a sawmill and gristmill in Southampton, Massachusetts, later an owner of tenements and other real estate in Westfield, Massachusetts. From the description of Noah Lyman Strong account book, 1849-1893. (University of Massachusetts Amherst). WorldCat record id: 52515715 ...