Boyce-Gilbert family papers, 1831-2000.

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Boyce-Gilbert family papers, 1831-2000.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/755278793

Collection contains journals and correspondence of Le Roy and Simeon Boyce and Elisabeth Boyce Gilbert, in addition to a family tree, genealogical information, and biographical sketches of the Boyce and Gilbert families.

0.4 linear feet (1 box)

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SNAC Resource ID: 8136035

Newberry Library

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Newberry Library

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The Newberry was founded on July 1, 1887 and opened for business on September 6 of that year. The Newberry’s establishment came about because of a contingent provision in the will of Chicago businessman Walter L. Newberry (1804-68), which left what later amounted to approximately $2.2 million for the foundation of a “free, public” library on the north side of the Chicago River, if his two children died without issue. After the deaths of Mr. Newberry’s daughters and then, in 1885, of his widow, t...

Midwest manuscript Collection (Newberry Library)

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Cornell University

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Vassar College.

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Yale College (1718-1887)

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The Linonian Literary Society was founded in 1753. All undergraduates were allowed to be members of the Linonian Society. The club provided students with a forum to debate, stage plays, and deliver poems, essays, and orations. The society disbanded in 1868. From the guide to the Linonian Society, Yale College, records, 1753-1870, (Manuscripts and Archives) ...

Boyce family.

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Boyce, Simeon Leonard, b. 1850

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Boyce, Helen, 1875-1920.

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Boyce, Le Roy Merrick, 1810-1849.

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Chicago family of scholars, real estate moguls, and pharmacy entrepreneurs. The Boyce family (once the DuBois or Boies family) fled France in 1685 when the Edict of Nantes was revoked by Louis XIV, limiting the rights of Huguenots. They settled briefly in Scotland and Ireland, eventually landing in Massachusetts in 1727, where David DuBois raised his son Samuel Boies with his wife, until David's death in 1752. The Boies family eventually migrated to Cortland, New York, w...

Gilbert family.

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Gilbert, Elisabeth Boyce, b. 1892

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