- physdesc
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{"format"=>"structured", "physdesc_components"=>[{"name"=>"extent", "value"=>".5 linear feet", "unit"=>"linear feet"}, {"name"=>"extent", "value"=>"2 boxes", "unit"=>"containers"}], "supress_display"=>true}
- unitid
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{"value"=>"MssCol NYGB 18118", "type"=>"local_call"}
{"value"=>"18118", "type"=>"local_mss"}
- unitdate
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{"value"=>"1812-1934", "type"=>"inclusive", "normal"=>"1812/1934"}
{"value"=>"1899-1932", "type"=>"bulk", "normal"=>"1899/1932"}
- date_inclusive_start
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1812
- date_inclusive_end
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1934
- keydate
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1812
- unittitle
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{"value"=>"Frances Adelaide Ingraham 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"=>"Frances Adelaide (Leverich) Ingraham (1849?-1934) was a founding member of the Daughters of the Revolution and served as its president-general. Her papers, 1812-1934, contain correspondence concerning her membership in several lineage societies and materials created and collected in the course of her genealogical research on the Bogert, Ingraham, Leverich, Masterton, McLeod, Phoenix, Schoonmaker, Vanderveer, and Walton families."}
- prefercite
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{"value"=>"<p>Frances Adelaide Ingraham Papers, Manuscripts and Archives Division, The New York Public Library.</p>"}
- origination
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{"value"=>"Ingraham, Frances Adelaide", "type"=>"persname"}
- bioghist
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{"value"=>"<p>Frances Adelaide (Leverich) Ingraham (1849?-1934) served as a president-general of the Daughters of the Revolution and belonged to several lineage societies. She was the daughter of Richard Berrien Leverich and Margaret Maria (Schoonmaker) Leverich of Brooklyn Heights, New York. In 1875 she married businessman D. Phoenix Ingraham. Their daughter, Marguerite Leverich Ingraham married Lt. Colonel Romulus Foster Walton in 1899. There were two children from this marriage: R. Foster Walton (donor of the collection), and Kenneth Ingraham Walton. Their son, Sidney Phoenix Ingraham, married Frances Virginia Walton in 1909. There were three children from this marriage: Frances Adelaide Ingraham, Jessie V. Ingraham, and Katherine M. Ingraham.</p> <p>Ingraham was the great-great granddaughter of Theodore Polhemus of Kings County, a member of the first Provincial Congress, 1775; the great-great granddaughter of Peter Vandervoort, ensign of Kings County Troop of Horse, 1776, and the great-granddaughter of Rev. Martinus Schoonmaker, pastor of the Dutch Reformed Churches of Harlem and Gravesend from 1765 to 1784. Her ancestors also include the Berrien and Leverich families of Newtown, L.I.</p>"}
- custodhist
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{"value"=>"<p>The papers of Frances Adelaide Leverich Ingraham (Mrs. D. Phoenix Ingraham) passed to her daughter Marguerite (Ingraham) Walton after her death. Mrs. Walton gave the papers to her son R. Foster Walton of Decatur, Georgia. Mr. Walton turned the papers over to the Department of Archives and History of the State of Georgia which transferred the collection to the New York Genealogical and Biographical Society in 1982.</p>"}
- scopecontent
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{"value"=>"<p>The collection, 1812-1934 (bulk dates 1899-1932) consists of materials created and collected in the course of Adelaide Ingraham's genealogical research on the Ingraham and Leverich families and the allied Bogert, Masterton, McLeod, Phoenix, Schoonmaker, Vanderveer, and Walton families. Included are her correspondence, lineage society applications, dues receipts, programs, and invitations, ca. 1890s-1910s, from the Daughters of the Revolution, Society of Daughters of Holland Dames, Huguenot Society of America, National Society of Daughters of Founders and Patriots of America, and other societies, and some personal correspondence, accounts, bills, and invitations, ca. 1930s. Also, some late 18th to early 20th century miscellany of the above families, including correspondence, invitations, wills, accounts, receipts, calling cards, stock and insurance certificates, and deeds are present. Of note are the 1788 will of Peter Bogert, yeoman, New York City; an early 20th century address book of Margaret M. Vanderveer of Brooklyn, N.Y., which also contains clippings of death, wedding, and other announcements relating to family and friends; and an 1861 passport of Sidney P. Ingraham.</p>"}
{"value"=>"<p class='list-head'>The Frances Adelaide Ingraham papers are arranged in two series:</p>\n<ul class='arrangement series-descriptions'>\n<li><div class='series-title'><a href='/mss/18118#c213517'>Series I. Personal papers</a></div>\n<div class='series-date'>1892-1934</div>\n</li><li><div class='series-title'><a href='/mss/18118#c213526'>Series II. Genealogical research notes and sources</a></div>\n</li></ul>\n", "type"=>"arrangement"}
- arrangement
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{"value"=>"<p>The Frances Adelaide Ingraham Papers are organized in the following series:</p> <ul> <li>Series I. Personal papers, 1892-1934</li> <li>Series II. Genealogical research notes and sources</li></ul>", "supress_display"=>true}
- acqinfo
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{"value"=>"<p>Gift of the New York Genealogical and Biographical Society, 2008.</p>"}
- processinfo
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{"value"=>"<p>Processed by Valerie Wingfield.</p>"}
- extent_statement
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.5 linear feet (2 boxes)
- date_start
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1812
- date_end
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1934
- date_bulk_start
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1899
- date_bulk_end
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1932