Contents
Collection Overview
Administrative Information
Scope and Contents of the Collection
Organization of the Collection
Search Terms
Series 1. Family Search Data
Series 2. Generation 1
Series 3. Generation 2
Series 4. Generation 3
Series 5. Generation 4
Series 6. Generation 5
Series 7. Photographs
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Lloyd A. Trent, Jr. Family Papers, 1850-1996
Finding aid prepared by Brooke Trent.
Encoding funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
2003
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Creator:
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Trent family |
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Title:
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Lloyd A. Trent, Jr. Family Papers |
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Dates:
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1850-1996 |
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Abstract:
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Five generations of an African-American family that achieved commercial success and wealth through the restaurant and catering business as well as extensive real estate investments at the turn of the 20th century in New York City, Brooklyn, and Sea Cliff, Long Island, New York. Includes letters, public and church records, news clippings, ephemera, a videotape, and 87 photographs.
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Extent:
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3 boxes(1.5 linear ft.) |
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Language:
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English. |
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Identification:
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MS 373 |
Acquired from Brooke Trent, widow of Lloyd A. Trent, Jr., 1995.
Processed by Brooke Trent, 1995.
Preferred Citation
Cite as: Lloyd A. Trent, Jr. Family Papers (MS 373). Special Collections and University Archives, W.E.B. Du Bois Library, University of Massachusetts Amherst.
The collection is open for research.
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The Lloyd A. Trent Jr. Family Collection (1850-1996) comprises letters, public and church records, news clippings, and other documents, as well as 87 photographs, which together illuminate the lives of five generations of an African-American family that achieved commercial success and wealth through the restaurant and catering business as well as extensive real estate investments at the turn of the 20th Century in New York City, Brooklyn, and Sea Cliff, Long Island, New York.
The collection spans generations of William Henry Smith and his wife Ursuline Parker Smith's (1846-1930) families, from 1791, the approximate date of birth of William Henry Smith's mother, Julie Ann Beers (?), to the 1970's when Lloyd A. Trent, Jr. (1931-1991), a great grandson of William Henry Smith (1836-1923) whose life is the centerpiece of the collection, and Brooke Trent actively pursued the search for family documents.
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This collection is organized into seven series:
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Series 1. Family Search Data
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Family Research Material
1975-1986, 1996
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New York City and Philadelphia, Black Family History
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Series 2. Generation 1
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Julia Ann Smith, b. 1791(?)- d. 189?
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Elizabeth Aubert Parker, b. 1813(?)- d. 1882
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Series 3. Generation 2
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Joseph Washington, b. 1848- d. 1915?
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wife, Priscilla, b. 1868(?)- d. 1929
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Elizabeth Ursula [Ursuline] Parker Smith, b. 1846- d. 1930
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William H. Smith, Jr., b. 1836- d. 1923: Biographical Material
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William H. Smith, Jr. Marriage and Anniversaries
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William H. Smith, Jr. Clubs and Affiliations
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William H. Smith, Jr. Residence, Work- Places, Restaurants
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William H. Smith, Jr. Death Certificate/Cemetery Documents
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William H. Smith, Jr. Wills
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Letters from Elizabeth Ursula
1897 - 1930
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[Ursuline] Parker Smith (with a few from William H. Smith).
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from NYC and Sea Cliff, Long Island, NY to their daughter,
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Marie (Bela) Smith Warrick in Philadelphia, PA.
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Dated Correspondence
c1894 (bulk c 1898 - 1903), c1921
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Series 4. Generation 3
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Joseph Frances Xavier Smith [Frank], b. 1868- d. 1943
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Maria Eugennie Smith Warrick [Bela], b. 1869- d.1946, William Henry Warrick, her husband, b. 1867- d. 1941
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Kate Bowers Smith Dickerson Payne, b. 1872- d. 1962
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William Henry Smith, Jr. [Willie], b. 1875-c1952, Elizabeth Bishop Smith-Bundick, his wife, d. 1959
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Worden Alexander Smith, b. 1877- d. 1957, Gertrude Richardson Smith Campbell, b. 1883- d. 1983
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Louis Sheldon Smith [Louie], b. 1878- d. 1956, Effie (?) Smith, his wife b. 1886- d. 1936
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Bernard Parker Smith [Parker], b. 1883- d. 1952, Roberta Fernandez Smith, his wife, d. 1964
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Meta Vaux Warrick Fuller, sculptor and sister of William H. Warrick (Folder 2), b. 1877- d. 1968
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Miscellaneous Diploma and other School Documents
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Series 5. Generation 4
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Mabel Eleanor Smith Trent, b. 1904- d. 1970, Lloyd A Trent, her husband, b. 1904- d. 1986
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Dorothy Warrick Taylor, b. 1902- d. 1994
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Series 6. Generation 5
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Lloyd A. Trent, Jr., 1931-1991
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Series 7. Photographs
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Photo portraits of Generation I
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Photo portraits of Generation 2
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Photo portraits of Generation 3
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Generations 2, 3 and 4 at Family Gatherings, Sea Cliff, Long Island, NY
c. 1885-1910
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Group Photos of Generations 2, 3 and 4
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William H. Smith's Homes and Properties
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Cemeteries where Smiths and Parkers are buried
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Photocopies of some of photos, (Folders 1-8)
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Charles Edward Mitchell, US Ambassador to Liberia, Photos and other Memorabilia of Mitchell and wife
c1930
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Unidentified Daguerreotype/Tintypes
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