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The John Shorb family: 1761-1955

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Description
History and genealogy of the Shorb family, given in both prose and chart forms. The opening prose accounts trace the Shorb family as far back as John Shorb (b.1761) and his wife Catherine Fink, and subsequently focuses on their ten children. The manuscript recounts that the Shorb family lived on an estate called San Marino in Maryland and several of the children later relocated to Illinois and Ohio. A grandson of John and Catherine Shorb was James DeBarth Shorb, who moved with his brother Campbell to California and married Maria de Jesus Wilson, daughter of Benjamin Davis Wilson (the account tells the story that DeBarth Shorb named his California ranch San Marino in honor of his family's estate). It also recounts that the Shorbs' youngest daughter, Harriet, joined the Sisters of Charity, which was founded by Elizabeth Ann Seton, who, it is recounted, may have once stayed with the Shorb family when Harriet was a child. The remainder of the manuscript consists of passages from "The Story of the Mountain" (1811), typescript letters, and genealogical charts tracing the Shorb family up to about 1955.
Type
Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Production date
1959.
Call number
mssHM 78048
Creator
Shorb, M. Pauline(Opens in new tab)
Provenance
Gift of M. Pauline Shorb, 1960.
Associated people
Cummins, Clarence,
Lipps, Eleanor,
Rider, Mary Ann,
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