Arthur H. Keeney papers, 1891-1996.

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Arthur H. Keeney papers, 1891-1996.

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The collection includes correspondence, research materials, pamphlets, and journal articles, mostly related to Arthur and Virginia Keeney's research on the Verhoeff family. Keeney compiled the material while writing and researching articles about Frederick and John Verhoeff. Includes some of the papers of Dr. Frederick H. Verhoeff. Collection also contains a photocopy of a typescript of John M. Verhoeff's diary, written in 1891 while he was a member of Robert E. Peary's North Pole expedition. Photos of Frederick Verhoeff and family were transferred to the Filson's photographic collection.

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Verhoeff, John McKee, 1866-1892.

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Verhoeff family

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Peary, Robert Edwin, 1856-1920

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Robert Edwin Peary Sr. (born May 6, 1856, Cresson, Pennsylvania – died February 20, 1920, Washington, D.C.) was an American explorer and United States Navy officer who made several expeditions to the Arctic in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. He is best known for claiming to have reached the geographic North Pole with his expedition on April 6, 1909. Though born in Pennsylvania, Peary grew up in in Portland, Maine. He went to a prominent boarding school called Loomis Chaffe. He attende...

Kenney, Arthur H. (Arthur Hail), 1920-

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Arthur H. Keeney, M.D., ophthalmologist and professor in the School of Medicine at the University of Louisville. Keeney began researching the life of Frederick H. Verhoeff, which resulted in an interest in the Verhoeff family, a well known family in Louisville, Kentucky. Herman Verhoeff, Jr., the eldest of a family of six children, was a successful merchant and grain elevator operator. His son, Frederick H. Verhoeff earned a Ph.B. degree from the Sheffield Scientific School of Yale University. A...

Verhoeff, F. H. (Frederick Herman), 1874-1968

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Verhoeff was an eye pathologist at Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary. From the description of Papers of Frederick Herman Verhoeff, 1894-1968 (inclusive). (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122565072 Native Louisvillian who became a distinguished opthalmologist, surgeon, professor, spending most of his career at Massachusetts Charitable Eye and Ear Infirmary and Harvard University. Verhoeff began experimenting with photography at the age of twelve when he acquired his first cam...