Genealogy
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 7 Collections and/or Records:
Alfred Williams Anthony papers
Collection
Identifier: MC007
Abstract
The collection is composed of correspondence, published and unpublished writings, scrapbooks and other material documenting the career of Alfred Williams Anthony, distinguished scholar, teacher and administrator. Included is material related to Anthony's book, Bates College and Its Background, and the Interdenominational Commission of Maine. Also included is material related to his tenure on the Board of Trustees of Bates College and his interest in and writings on a variety of subjects...
Dates:
1872 - 1996; Majority of material found within 1890 - 1938
Dressler Family Collection of Alfred Williams Anthony Papers
Collection
Identifier: MC112
Abstract
The collection is comprised of correspondence, journals, and assorted papers of several members of the Anthony, Waterman, and Angell families of Rhode Island which document in detail family, social, educational, and religious life in the nineteenth and early twentieth century, particularly in New England. Includes significant material on Alfred W. and Harriet W. Anthony, including their time in Bangor, Maine, where Alfred served as pastor of the Essex Street Free Baptist Church, and his...
Dates:
1802 - 1985; Majority of material found within 1861 - 1909
George and Clarence Smith papers
Collection
Identifier: MC052
Abstract
This collection consists of the personal and professional papers of two nephews of the Reverend Oren Burbank Cheney, founder and first president of Bates College: the Hon. George Edwin Smith (1848-1919) (Bates, 1873; LL.D., 1918), three-time president of the Massachusetts Senate and attorney for railroad trusts; and of his youngest brother, the Hon. Clarence Cheney Smith (1865-1943) (Bates, 1888), a founding recorder and later a justice for the Massachusetts Land Court. Among the materials...
Dates:
1814 - 1999
Little family genealogical collection
Collection
Identifier: MC115
Abstract
Notes, letters, and publications about the history of the descendents of George Little of Newbury, Massachusetts. The collection was compiled by Catherine Little, Bates class of 1908.
Dates:
1860-1963, undated
Tarbox family papers
Collection
Identifier: MC113
Abstract
Family letters, photographs, genealogical information and other material related to the Freewill Baptist minister Moses H. Tarbox and his descendents, including Grace (Tarbox) Whitman, Bates class of 1900.
Dates:
ca. 1879-1975, undated
Thomas Angell papers
Collection
Identifier: MC025
Abstract
Thomas Angell served as language professor at Bates College from 1869-1902. Shortly after arriving at Bates, Angell was granted a leave of absence for one year which he spent in France and Germany, devoting himself to the study of language and literature. The collection contains his diaries from January 1, 1859-July 24, 1870 in which he writes about: life as a student at Brown University; enlisting in the Rhode Island militia as aide de camp for General Tourtellotte during the Civil War; the...
Dates:
ca. 1800 - 1940
Thomas Hedley Reynolds papers
Collection
Identifier: MC120
Abstract
The collection contains a variety of material including correspondence, military records, newsclippings, photographs, transcripts of oral history interviews, honrary degree certificates, scrapbook on the North Atlantic Yacht race, Deerfield Academy yearbooks and diplomas.
Dates:
1920 - 2010