A. Fern Souther papers, 1860-1982.

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A. Fern Souther papers, 1860-1982.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/80749601

The collection consists of letters, family memorabilia, scrapbooks, teaching materials, clippings, photographs, postcards and greeting cards gathered by Fern Souther, a Burlington, Vermont elementary school teacher and inveterate collector. Family related materials include miscellaneous documents from the Fisk and Kimball families and a series of Francis Souther's World War II letters. The collection documents Fern Souther's life and interests. She collected Lowell, Vermont history as well as material about the places she lived or worked such as Lake Willoughby, Mount Mansfield, and Burlington. Her interest in Vermont geography and history is documented in her 251 scrapbooks in this collection and her town scrapbooks held at the University of Vermont. As a teacher, she saved instructional materials as well as pupil lists and photographs. The earliest family materials span the period 1860 to the 1920s. They include Fisk and Kimball family autograph books and receipts and Nellie Souther's 1860 recipe book.

9 linear feet.

Vermont Historical Society

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SNAC Resource ID: 8251178

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Kimball family.

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Brown, Hubert C.

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Hubert C. Brown of Fairfield, Vermont, the son of Joseph and Aurelia Brown, and Laura Tupper of Bakersfield, Vermont, the daughter of Solon and Nancy A. Tupper, were married in Enosburgh November 24, 1863. By 1864, Laura was living in Lockport, Illinois and Hubert wrote in September of that year to a cousin that his wife was living in another state, and "I have heard that she will live with me if I'll come to Illinois." By 1865 however, they both were living in East Fairfield, Vermont and by 187...

Brown, Laura Tupper.

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Southern family.

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Fisk family.

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Souther, A. Fern, 1907-2004.

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Fern was born in Orleans, Vermont, December 1, 1907, the oldest child of Betty and Wilman Souther. Although her birth certificate says Adele Nellie Fern Souther, she dropped Nellie and used the initial "A -" of Adele. She graduated from Lowell High School in 1924, and then took a teacher training course in Barton. She taught in Troy from 1925 to 1928 and in Newport from 1928 to 1930. In June 1931, she earned a Teacher Training Course diploma, a two year course, at the Un...

251 Club.

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Souther, Francis W., 1913-1992.

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