Box 6
Container
Contains 5 Results:
[Correspondence added to the collection in 2021], 1836 - 1904
File — Multiple Containers
Scope and Contents
Additional letters written/received by the family of Benjamin Bennett Briggs. Included are letters written by his wife (Abby Crane Briggs), daughter (Irene Briggs Ward), and son-in-law, Samuel Lawrence Ward, who was a pastor in the Glendale Presbyterian Church. Some of the letters by Samuel Lawrence Ward were written while he and Irene Briggs Ward were missionaries in Persia. There is also some correspondence of Samuel Lawrence Ward's father (the earliest dating from 1836), and children. The...
Dates:
1836 - 1904
Presbyterian Church Book of Forms, 1889
File — Box: 6, Folder: 5
Scope and Contents
A Presbyterian Church Book of Forms that belonged to Samuel Lawrence Ward.
Dates:
1889
Engraving plates for Samuel Lawrence Ward's calling card
File — Box: 6, Folder: 6
Scope and Content
From the Collection:
This small collection of family papers centers around Dr. Benjamin Bennett Briggs (1827-1893) whose 1849 diary chronicles his account of moving from Ohio to California by covered wagon. Briggs was the great-great-grandfather of the collection's donor, Dr. Chester Ward. In addition to the diary, the collection includes a small account book/diary from 1862--also kept by Briggs--as well as a number of letters to and from family members and photographs of family members across multiple...
Dates:
1836 - 2020; Majority of material found within 1850 - 1920
Ward, Josiah Jerome (1775-1851) [cased daguerreotype]
File — Box: 6, Folder: 7
Scope and Content
From the Collection:
This small collection of family papers centers around Dr. Benjamin Bennett Briggs (1827-1893) whose 1849 diary chronicles his account of moving from Ohio to California by covered wagon. Briggs was the great-great-grandfather of the collection's donor, Dr. Chester Ward. In addition to the diary, the collection includes a small account book/diary from 1862--also kept by Briggs--as well as a number of letters to and from family members and photographs of family members across multiple...
Dates:
1836 - 2020; Majority of material found within 1850 - 1920
On Call at the White House: The Diary of a White House Physician's Wife by Sally McCloud Ward, 2019
File — Box: 6, Folder: 8
Scope and Content
From the Collection:
This small collection of family papers centers around Dr. Benjamin Bennett Briggs (1827-1893) whose 1849 diary chronicles his account of moving from Ohio to California by covered wagon. Briggs was the great-great-grandfather of the collection's donor, Dr. Chester Ward. In addition to the diary, the collection includes a small account book/diary from 1862--also kept by Briggs--as well as a number of letters to and from family members and photographs of family members across multiple...
Dates:
2019