Contents
Collection Overview
Biographical Note
Scope and Contents of the Collection
Search Terms
CORRESPONDENCE
FINANCIAL MATERIALS
MISCELLANEOUS
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Grant Family Papers, 1778-1913
Finding Aid
Encoding funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
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Creator:
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Grant family |
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Title:
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Grant Family Papers |
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Dates:
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1778-1913 |
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Dates:
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1830-1870 |
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Abstract:
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The Grant family papers include correspondence, diaries, account books and financial/legal papers, biographical and genealogical material, printed material, dating from 1778 to 1913. Topics include education, maintenance of Connecticut homestead, banking in Ohio, starting businesses in Nebraska and Illinois, and accounts of Mary Grant's experiences as a missionary in India and her death from cholera. |
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Extent:
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5 boxes(2.25 linear ft.) |
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Language:
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English |
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Identification:
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MS 66 |
The Grant family Papers represent three generations, including educators, missionaries, a banker, pioneer lawyer, social reformer, writer and lecturer. Zilpah Polly Grant Banister, 1794-1894, was born in Norfolk, Connecticut. She was a pioneering educator and founder of Adams Female Seminary in Derry, NH, 1824, and Ipswich Female Seminary with Mary Lyon, 1827. She married William Banister, 1841. Her brother, Elijah Grant, was a town officer, who married Elizabeth Phelps Grant, 1809-1875. They had 8 children. Elijah Phelps Grant was a lawyer, philosopher, social reformer, and banker in Carleton, OH, and John Grant a teacher at Yale and founder of his own private school. Other family members were bankers, homesteaders in CT, pioneers in Nebraska and Illinois. Mary Z. Grant Burgess was a missionary in India.
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It is clear from their content and their provenance, however, that they are actually the papers of her brother Elijah Grant, his wife Elizabeth Phelps Grant, their children, and the descendents of the eldest son, Elijah Phelps Grant. The correspondence consists mainly of letters exchanged within the family from the l830s to the l860s. Most of Zilpah Grant's letters were written to her nephews Marcus and John after she had married and given up teaching. John Grant, who taught at Yale and later established his own private school, sought her counsel as a former school principal. Correspondence of other family members relates to such topics as the maintenance of the original Connecticut homestead, banking in Canton, Ohio, and the starting of businesses in Nebraska and Illinois.
The early financial records, beginning in the l770's, are mostly from the settlement of the estate of Elijah Grant's uncle Samuel Cowles, of Colebrook, Connecticut, who died in l843. Account books belonging to Elijah Grant (l822-56) Elijah P. Grant (l866-67), James M. Grant (l868); Jennie Wallace (l890-97) and William Wallace (l90l-07) add to the fragmentary family financial record.
Notebooks, lectures, essays, and newspaper articles by Elijah P. Grant span the period from his college days at Yale to old age. One of his college notebooks contains transcriptions of letters describing the death of Mary Zilpah Grant Burgess who died of cholera in India where she and her husband were missionaries. The balance of the collection consists of diaries, a few photographs, compositions, and legal papers relating to various family members.
Portions of the Grant Family Papers have been digitized for the
Five College Digitization Project Web site.
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Biographical and genealogical
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Bills, receipts, accounts,
l8l2-l906
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Contracts, deeds, quit claims, etc.,
l795-l888
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Lake Erie Female Seminary, Painesville, Ohio (Mary Grant material),
l859-l860; n.d.
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CORRESPONDENCE
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To Grant family from friends,
l82l-l89l
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Banister, Zilpah Polly (Grant) to family,
l855-l874
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Grant, Abigail (Cowles) (Mrs. Joel) to family,
l847-l877
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Grant, Caroline (Mrs. Daniel) to family,
l854, l869, l89l
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Grant, Elijah to Dr. Phelps,
l840
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Grant, Elijah Phelps to family,
l830-l859
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Grant, Elizabeth to Martha Grant,
l843
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Grant, Gertrude D. (Mrs. John) to family,
l857-l860, l879
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Grant, Jane (Jennie) to family,
l857-l859
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Grant, Joel to parents and brother,
l839-l859
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l8 |
Grant, Joel to family,
l860-l873
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l9 |
Grant, John to parents,
l848-l867
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Grant, John to Martha Grant,
l842-l843
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Grant, John to Marcus Grant,
l843-l864
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Grant, John to Marcus Grant,
l865-l877
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Grant, John to Zilpah P.G. (Grant) Banister,
l846-l852
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Grant, John to Zilpah P.G. (Grant) Banister,
l853-l858
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Grant, John to Gertrude Day Grant and friends,
l850, l878
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Box
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Folder
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Grant, Martha to Marcus Grant,
l843
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Grant, Mary to Susan Boyd and Mrs. James Boyd,
l835, l839
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Grant, Susan (Boyd) to Elizabeth and Lewis Boyd,
l837-l855
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Grant, Susan (Boyd) to Elizabeth Boyd (sister),
l856-l869
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Grant, Susan (Boyd) to Elizabeth Grant,
l840-l859
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Grant, Susan (Boyd) to Jane M. Boyd (mother),
l83l-l852
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Grant, Susan (Boyd) to William Grant,
l883
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Hurford, Elizabeth (Grant) to family,
l853-l863
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Wallace, Mary (Grant) to family,
l853-l864
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Wallace, William, misc. correspondence to and from him (includes some other types of material),
l857-l9l3
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FINANCIAL MATERIALS
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Account book,
1840-42
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Deeds, receipts, bills (many from the estate of Samuel Cowles),
l788-l850, n.d.
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Box
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Folder
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Account books (2),
1822-42, 1866
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James W. Grant: account books (2),
1868
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Isaac Jacklyn: receipts, indenture papers, deeds (many from his estate),
l856-74
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MISCELLANEOUS
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Folder
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Memorandum Quotidiana and notes on the Class of
1830, 1828
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Chemistry with B. Silliman, Botany, and "An Account of the Death of Mrs. Mary Burgess…,"
1828, 1842
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Box
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Folder
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"What is the best mode of teaching reading?"
1838
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"The Immortality of the Soul,"
1849
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"The Eternity of the Universe,"
1866-67
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"All Things Eternal,"
1867
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"Original Manuscripts,"
n.d.
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Notes and writings, miscellaneous,
1872, n.d.
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Daguerreotype, Canton, Ohio,
n.d.
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John Grant: Journals (2),
l854-l855
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Box
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Folder
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Dorothy Wallace: reminiscence and diary, "Omaha in the '80s"
after 1941
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Box
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Folder
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Account book,
1890-97
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Box
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Folder
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Account books (2),
l90l-l907
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Journals (2),
l857, l860
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