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{"value"=>"MssCol NYGB 18189", "type"=>"local_call"}
{"value"=>"18189", "type"=>"local_mss"}
- unitdate
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{"value"=>"1865-1967", "type"=>"inclusive", "normal"=>"1865/1967"}
{"value"=>"1897-1899", "type"=>"bulk", "normal"=>"1897/1899"}
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1865
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1967
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1865
- unittitle
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{"value"=>"Ferris family genealogical research 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"=>"Lora Cornelia Little, public health activist and a descendant of the Ferris family through her maternal grandmother Ruth Ferris, was born Lora Williams, in Waterville, Minnesota Territory in 1856. The genealogical research compiled by Lora Little and Henry Boynton Ferris lineage related to their investigation of the Ferris Family includes family data sheets, research notes, and photographs, as well as correspondence from distant relations, fellow genealogists, town clerks and other recordskeepers."}
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{"value"=>"<p>Ferris Family Genealogical Research Papers, Manuscripts and Archives Division, The New York Public Library.</p>"}
- origination
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{"value"=>"Little, Lora C", "type"=>"persname"}
- bioghist
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{"value"=>"<p>Lora Cornelia Little, public health activist and a descendant of the Ferris family through her maternal grandmother Ruth Ferris, was born Lora Williams, in Waterville, Minnesota Territory in 1856. She married Elijah A. Little, a civil engineer from Port Byron, N.Y. In 1895 Little's only child Kenneth died following a compulsory vaccination that was administered in advance of his admission to the Yonkers, New York public schools. She provides an account of his death in \"Crimes of the Cowpox Ring\", published in 1905, and crusaded against mandatory vaccinations laws for the remainder of her life. In 1918, while living in Bismark, N.D., her anti-vaccination work led to her arrest for violation of the Espionage Act.</p> <p>Little, a descendant of John Ferris of Pound Ridge, N.Y. (who served as a private in the Continental Army), was admitted to the Daughters of the American Revolution in 1893. Working in collaboration with Henry Boynton Ferris of Chicago, Little immersed herself in a project to more fully document the Ferris family lineage and together they amassed extensive information on the Ferris family genealogy. When her health failed, she turned her material over to Morris Patterson Ferris. Little died in Chicago on October 30, 1931 at the age of 75.</p>"}
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{"value"=>"<p>The genealogical research compiled by Lora Little and Henry Boynton Ferris lineage related to their investigation of the Ferris Family includes family data sheets, research notes, and photographs, as well as correspondence from distant relations, fellow genealogists, town clerks and other recordkeepers. Some correspondence from the 1860s, which was forwarded to Little in the course of her project, represents attempts by earlier generations of Ferris' to trace the family genealogy.</p> <p>In 1966 Western Reserve Historical Society genealogist Harriet Scofield undertook a comprehensive exploration of the tangled lines of the Ferris family and published her findings in the \"New York Genealogical and Biographical Society Record\" in her article |The Six Ferris Brothers and Their Families.| \"[T]his is not my own family at all,\" Scofield noted in a 1966 letter to a NYGB editor, \"but just one where the problems and mix-ups intrigued me.\" In preparation for her article, Scofield reviewed the Ferris Family Genealogical Research papers, than housed at the NYGB, and arranged and annoted the research notes and correspondence. Scofield explains her methods in a letter that accompanied the draft of her article (box 1, folder 1). Throughout the collection, Scofield's arrangement scheme and annotations have been preserved.</p>"}
{"value"=>"<p class='list-head'>The Ferris family genealogical research papers are arranged in three series:</p>\n<ul class='arrangement series-descriptions'>\n<li><div class='series-title'><a href='/mss/18189#c135885'>Series I: Family Data Sheets, 1966-1967; n.d.</a></div>\n<div class='series-description'><p>Harriet Scofield's article on the Ferris family along with her correspondence with New York Biographical and Genealogical Society staff precedes the data sheets.</p></div></li><li><div class='series-title'><a href='/mss/18189#c135912'>Series II: Research Materials, 1865-1909</a></div>\n<div class='series-description'><p>Notable materials include Little's application to the Daughters of the American Revolution and the sheet music for a composition she wrote.</p></div></li><li><div class='series-title'><a href='/mss/18189#c135923'>Series III: Research Correspondence, 1867-1914</a></div>\n<div class='series-description'><p>This series consist chiefly of correspondence received by Little and Henry Boynton Ferris related to their research. Some correspondence from the 1860s, which was forwarded to Little my her Ferris relations, represents attempts by earlier generations of Ferris' to trace the family genealogy. The numbering scheme and annotations are transcribed from Harriet Scofield's original titles.</p></div></li></ul>\n", "type"=>"arrangement"}
- arrangement
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{"value"=>"<p>The Ferris family genealogical research papers are organized in the following series:</p> <ul> <li>Series I: Family Data Sheets, 1966-1967; n.d.</li> <li>Series II: Research Materials, 1865-1909</li> <li>Series III: Research Correspondence, 1867-1914</li></ul>", "supress_display"=>true}
- acqinfo
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{"value"=>"<p>Gift of the New York Genealogical and Biographical Society, 2008</p>"}
- userestrict
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{"value"=>"<p>None</p>"}
- altformavail
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{"value"=>"<p>None</p>"}
- processinfo
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{"value"=>"<p>Compiled by Leslie Reyman.</p>"}
- extent_statement
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2.94 linear feet (7 boxes)
- date_start
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1865
- date_end
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1967
- date_bulk_start
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1897
- date_bulk_end
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1899