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{"format"=>"structured", "physdesc_components"=>[{"name"=>"extent", "value"=>"1.2 linear feet", "unit"=>"linear feet"}, {"name"=>"extent", "value"=>"3 boxes", "unit"=>"containers"}], "supress_display"=>true}
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{"value"=>"MssCol NYGB 18107", "type"=>"local_call"}
{"value"=>"18107", "type"=>"local_mss"}
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{"value"=>"1855-1881", "type"=>"inclusive", "normal"=>"1855/1881"}
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1855
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1881
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1855
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{"value"=>"David Parsons Holton papers"}
- repository
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{"value"=>"<span class=\"corpname\">The New York Public Library. <span class=\"subarea\">Manuscripts and Archives Division</span></span> <div class=\"address\"><span class=\"addressline\">New York, New York</span></div>"}
- abstract
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{"value"=>"David-Parsons Holton, M.D., was a founding member of the New York Genealogical and Biographical Society. His papers contain correspondence, notebooks, genealogical research files, and ephemera documenting his research as a genealogist tracing the history and genealogy of the Parsons and Holton families, his experiences in Paris and Berlin in the 1850s, and his participation in a variety of historical, patriotic, educational, and philanthropic societies."}
- prefercite
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{"value"=>"<p>David Parsons Holton Papers, Manuscripts and Archives Division, The New York Public Library.</p>"}
- origination
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{"value"=>"Holton, David-Parsons, 1812?-1883", "type"=>"persname"}
- bioghist
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{"value"=>"<p>David-Parsons Holton, M.D., was a founding member of the New York Genealogical and Biographical Society. His wife, Frances K. Holton, was the first female member of the Society. Their study, <span class=\"title\">Parsons memorial : family records of Parsons and their descendants in America, with the English ancestry as far as known</span> was published in part, but never completed.</p>"}
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{"value"=>"<p>Holton's papers contain correspondence, notebooks, genealogical research files, and ephemera documenting his research as a genealogist tracing the history and genealogy of the Parsons and Holton families, his experiences in Paris and Berlin in the 1850s, and his participation in a variety of historical, patriotic, educational, and philanthropic societies. One folder of correspondence, 1869-1877, between Holton, John Stagg Gautier, Samuel Smith Purple, and Henry Reed Stiles deals with the establishment and early operation of the New York Genealogical and Biographical Society. Four notebooks kept between 1855-1880, have varied contents including copies of correspondence, diary entries, genealogical notes, drafts of essays, reports for the American press from Paris and Berlin, newspaper clippings on sundry topics including publications of his remarks, printed and draft circulars and announcements from organizations with which he was associated, including the Institute of Reward for Orphans and Patriots, Veterans Temperance Corps, the Founders Kin/Levi Parsons Scholarships, the Pilgrim Record Society, and the American Philological Society.</p> <p>His genealogical research files on the Parsons, Holton and allied families contain notes, copies of sources, and ancestral charts created for or used in the preparation of the work <span class=\"title\">Parsons memorial : family records of Parsons and their descendants in America, with the English ancestry as far as known</span>, compiled with his wife Frances K. Holton.</p> <p>Finally, the collection contains ephemera from the NYGB and other organizations, broadsides and published announcements of New York City political events, addresses, lectures, and sermons, 1863-1878.</p>"}
{"value"=>"<p class='list-head'>The David Parsons Holton papers are arranged in three series:</p>\n<ul class='arrangement series-descriptions'>\n<li><div class='series-title'><a href='/mss/18107#c38877'>Correspondence and notebooks</a></div>\n</li><li><div class='series-title'><a href='/mss/18107#c38885'>Parsons and Holton families research files</a></div>\n</li><li><div class='series-title'><a href='/mss/18107#c38902'>Ephemera</a></div>\n</li></ul>\n", "type"=>"arrangement"}
- arrangement
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{"value"=>"<p>The David Parsons Holton Papers are organized in the following series:</p> <ul> <li>Correspondence and notebooks</li> <li>Parsons and Holton families research files</li> <li>Ephemera</li></ul>", "supress_display"=>true}
- acqinfo
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{"value"=>"<p>Gift of the New York Genealogical and Biographical Society, 2008.</p>"}
- relatedmaterial
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{"value"=>"<span class=\"archref\">Robbins family genealogical research papers, 1880-1956. Manuscripts and Archives Division, The New York Public Library.</span> <span class=\"archref\">David Parsons Holton family miscellany. Milstein Division, The New York Public Library.</span>"}
- processinfo
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{"value"=>"<p>Processed by Leslie Reyman.</p>"}
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1.2 linear feet (3 boxes)
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1855
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1881