Katharine Bissell Bogert Roe memoir, 1912.

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Katharine Bissell Bogert Roe memoir, 1912.

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Ten-page memoir in which Katherine Bissell Bogert Roe recounts Litchfield in the 1860s when she was a teenager. She recalls visiting her Aunt Mary Bissell, other members of the Bissell and Welch families, and friends; details about the interiors and exteriors of houses; watching baseball; going to dances and the circus; riding down North Street imitating a circus performer on Dr. Gates's buggy; activities during the Civil War; giving Henry Ward Beecher an arbutus from Litchfield; and other memories.

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Roe, Katherine Bissell Bogert, 1852-1921

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Katherine Bissell Bogert Roe (1852-1921) was born in Brooklyn, New York, the daughter of John Banta Bogert, a resident of New York and later of Montana who was a wholesale hardware merchant, and Elizabeth Caroline Bissell, born in Litchfield, Conn. Elizabeth Bissell's mother was a daughter of John Bissell and Katherine Marsh Bissell of Litchfield, Conn. In 1874, Katherine Bissell Bogert married Charles Francis Roe (1848-1922) in Bozeman, Mont. They had three children. From the descri...

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Welch family.

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Beecher, Henry Ward, 1813-1887

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