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The Parsons heritage, 1651-1989 :

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Description: Two bound volumes containing photocopies of typscripts, documents, photographs, and other genealogical material, regarding the Parsons family.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Production date: 1989.
Call number: mssHM 54456
Creator: Parsons, Charlotte Olive Warner(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Gift of Charlotte Olive Warner Parsons, November 1990.
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Medical documents of Joseph Badger and William Moody Parsons

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The three bound volumes consist of two medical account books kept by Joseph Badger Parsons and one ledger book kept by William Moody Parsons. All relate to their practice in Bennington, New Hampshire. They detail patients and maladies, primarily related to urological concerns. The account books contain names of patients, the cost of their procedures, and brief notes on the reason for the office visit or procedure performed.The box contains 8 pieces of correspondence, 1 manuscript note, 5 lists, 19 receipts and bills, and 11 pieces of accounting calculations. All these pieces were removed from the bound volumes

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Parsons family papers

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The collection documents the business and personal activities of several members of the Parsons and Howson families, including Hosmer B. (Buckingham) Parsons (1846-1908), his wife Clelia Howson Parsons (1845-1931), and their daughter Emma Parsons Adams (1872-1961). Hosmer Parsons's materials include correspondence with Mexican banker Enrique Creel and senator John Sherman, and other letters related to his mining and land interests. There are also several letters to his sisters, including one written when he was a child. Clelia Howson Parsons's papers include additional family correspondence, notebooks and bankbooks, and estate documents. There are also letters from family friend Phoebe Apperson Hearst to both Clelia Howson Parsons and Emma Parsons Adams, as well as a notebook kept by Hosmer Parsons presumably related to Hearst's finances. The collection also includes a notebook kept by Hosmer Parsons's father Benjamin Booth Parsons (1810-1887), written while he was attending Amherst University in the 1830s. Materials related to Clelia Howson Parsons's sister Emma Howson (1844-1928) include a fan letter, a Howson family performance advertisement, and estate documents. The collection also includes family photographs, clippings, and genealogy correspondence and research. There are also photographs of a Mexican mine, and ephemera related to the Homestake Mine in South Dakota and railroads in Colorado, presumably related to Hosmer B. Parsons's business interests.

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Parsons and Howson family clippings

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Clelia Howson Parsons estate

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Parsons family genealogy correspondence and research

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