Alfred Vail's genealogical research papers, Irma and Paul Milstein Division of United States History, Local History and Genealogy, The New York Public Library
Between 1837 and 1844, inventor Alfred Lewis Vail worked together with Samuel F.B. Morse in the development and spread of the telegraph. In 1848, Vail moved to his home town, Morristown, New Jersey, and spent the last ten years of his life conducting genealogical research. Correspondence, research notes and notebooks, and family charts on the Vail family, compiled by Alfred Vail, including questionnaires completed by family members. Includes inventory in Box 1. Index cards refer to the 20 bound volumes of correspondence and research notes, compiled by Henry Vail, ca. 1902.
Between 1837 and 1844, inventor Alfred Lewis Vail worked together with Samuel F. B. Morse in the development and spread of the telegraph. In 1848, Vail moved to his home town, Morristown, New Jersey, and spent the last ten years of his life conducting genealogical research.
The collection contains correspondence, research notes and notebooks, questionnaires completed by family members, and family charts on the Vail family, compiled by Alfred Vail. Accompanying card file compiled by Henry Vail, ca. 1902, is an index to the correspondence and research notes in the 20 bound volumes in Boxes 1-11.
Presented to the New York Genealogical and Biographical Society by James Cummings Vail for the estate of the compiler in 1892. Index cards contributed by Henry Vail, ca. 1902.
Presented to the New York Genealogical and Biographical Society by James Cummings Vail for the estate of the compiler in 1892. Index cards contributed by Henry Vail, ca. 1902.