Foster-Lentilhon family papers, 1841-1922.

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Foster-Lentilhon family papers, 1841-1922.

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The collection includes the reminiscences of Eliza Smith Lentilhon, who began writing them in 1874 for her granddaughter Anna Foster Robinson. She chronicled the family's history, her childhood, education, travels to Europe, her wedding, and raising her daughters. She also wrote about her daughter, Pauline Lentilhon Foster and her life as a farmer's wife in upstate New York. Additional family papers include Herman Ten Eyck Foster's farm diaries, 1842-1846, 1867-1869. These contain details about daily farm work, his accounts with payments to farm laborers and women performing housework, and his purchases and other expenditures. The remainder of the papers consists of correspondence with several family members, which were retained for genealogical purposes.

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Foster, Pauline Lentilhon, 1825-1849.

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Lentilhon, Eliza Smith, 1802-1893.

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Foster, Herman Ten Eyck, 1822-1869

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Foster family.

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Du Pont, Pauline Foster, 1849-1902

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Mary Pauline Foster was the daughter of Herman Ten Eyck Foster (d. 1869) and Mary Pauline Lentilhon Foster (1825-1849) of New York. She was born at the family estate, Lakeland, near Geneva. Her mother died when she was ten days old, and she was raised by her father and maternal grandmother, Eliza Smith Lentilhon. After touring Europe between 1869 and 1871, she married Henry A. du Pont in 1874. They returned to Europe until 1876 and afterward lived at "Winterthur" in Delaware. Du Pont was a vice ...

Lentilhon family.

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