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Jessie Leland Hunt Foster collection
Collection
Identifier: SMC-079
Scope and Contents
This small manuscript collection consists of four folders containing pamphlets, newspaper clippings, postcards, photographs (and photocopies of the same) pertaining to the Wheaton Female Seminary. These materials were collected by Jessie Leland Hunt Foster, class of 1899.
Dates:
1883 - 1910
Wheaton Family Collection
Collection
Identifier: MC-001
Abstract
The Wheaton Family Collection covers the years 1721-2009. The bulk of the collection relates to the years 1779-1905. The collection shows the activities of an affluent family in the small town of Norton, MA. Laban Morey Wheaton and Eliza Baylies Chapin Wheaton were both active in the community, and established Wheaton Female Seminary. Eliza Baylies Chapin Wheaton contributed a great deal to the town of Norton by helping to renovate the Trinitarian Congregational Church and building the...
Dates:
1721-1994; 1779 - 1905