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Descriptive Summary

Biographical Note

Collection Overview

Restrictions

Online Catalog Headings

Administrative Information

Detailed Description of the Collection

Guide to the Stetson and Minor Family Photographs Collection, 1862 - 1948


Descriptive Summary
Repository Special Collections & Archives, Wesleyan University
Creator Stetson family.
Creator: Minor family.
Title Stetson and Minor Family Photographs Collection,
Dates 1862 - 1948
Linear Feet 0.5
Archival Boxes 1
Abstract Willis Kimball Stetson, son of Daniel Kimball Stetson and Mary Weeks Sanborn Stetson, born 1858 and died 1942. After graduating from Wesleyan University, Class of 1881, he taught public school in Ansonia, CT then became the Assistant Librarian and Librarian at Wesleyan University from 1882 to 1887. Willis Kimball Stetson married Lillian Minor and had three children: John Minor Stetson (born 1887), George Albert Stetson (born 1889) and Mary Mead Stetson (born 1891). Margaret Buell Allen is the daughter of Frederick G. and Mary Mead Stetson Allen. There is no accompanying biographical information regarding the Minor family photographs or other Stetson family member photographs.
This collection contains a three generation history in photographs of the Minor and Stetson families from 1862-1948.
Call Number 1000-129
Location For current information on the location of these materials, please consult Special Collections & Archives staff.
Language of Material Material in English

Biographical Note

Willis Kimball Stetson, son of Daniel Kimball Stetson and Mary Weeks Sanborn Stetson, born 1858 and died 1942. After graduating from Wesleyan University, Class of 1881, he taught public school in Ansonia, CT then became the Assistant Librarian and Librarian at Wesleyan University from 1882 to 1887. Willis Kimball Stetson married Lillian Minor and had three children: John Minor Stetson (born 1887), George Albert Stetson (born 1889) and Mary Mead Stetson (born 1891). Margaret Buell Allen is the daughter of Frederick G. and Mary Mead Stetson Allen. There is no accompanying biographical information regarding the Minor family photographs or other Stetson family member photographs.

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Collection Overview

This collection contains a three generation history in photographs of the Minor and Stetson families from 1862-1948; Willis Kimball Stanton, his father Daniel K. Stetson and his children John Minor, George Albert and Mary Mead.

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Restrictions

Access Restrictions

No restrictions.

Copyright Notice

Copyright is retained by the authors of items in these papers, or their descendants, as stipulated by United States copyright law.

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Online Catalog Headings

These and related materials may be found under the following headings in online catalogs.

Minor family.
Photographs.
Stetson family.
Wesleyan University (Middletown, Conn.) --Alumni and alumnae.

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Administrative Information

Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], Stetson and Minor Family Photographs Collection, Collection #1000-129, Special Collections & Archives, Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT, USA.

Acquisitions Information

Received circa 1982 from R.W. Clarke, Class of 1921.

Processing Information

Processed by Linda Hurteau, October 2006

Encoded by Valerie Gillispie, October 2006

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Detailed Description of the Collection

Box Folder
1 1 Allen, Margaret Buell
Folder
2 Grandma McCall. Hannah Stowe Sullivan (John Minor's Mother?)
Folder
3 Minor, Alla Mead, nine photos, only one photo dated January 13, 1862
Folder
4 Minor, George S.
Folder
5 Minor, Georgianna
Folder
6 Minor, John A.one photo in folder dated Jan. 13, 1862
Folder
7 Stetson, Daniel Kimball and Mary Weeks Sanborn Stetson (Mrs. D.K. Stetson) and photos of their home in Pasadena, CA with thousands of roses in the garden.
Folder
8 Stetson, George Albert and his siblings John M. Stetson and Mary Mead Stetson (Allen) through childhood. The first photo is George Albert Stetson c. 1887 at 3 months.
Dr. George A. Stetson, obituary
George A. Stetson, c.1907, high school graduation?
George A. Stetson, c. 1910, graduated from Yale Sheffield Scientific (?) 1910
George A. Stetson, undated
George A. Stetson, 1948, receiving Honorary degree from Stevens Institute of Technology
Folder
9 Minor, Solomon Miller
Folder
10 Minor, Urania Foster Treat
Folder
11 Stetson, Lillian Alla Minor at various ages, beginning at infancy. Photo of a group of women that consists of Lillian M. Stetson, Sally Stetson, Georgianna Minor and Alla Minor.
Folder
12 Stetson, Margaret Atwater
Folder
13 Stetson, Willis Kimball, May 8, 1938 his 80th birthday and earlier photographs.
Folder
14 Unidentified photographs from the Stetson and Minor collection.
Folder
15 Photograph of early Minor House
Stetson Kindred of America (Inc.) : Brief Sketch of Work of Organization and Extended Account of Second Reunion, Held August 18, 1906
Third Reunion and Annual Meeting Stetson Kindred of America (Inc.), Medford, MA, August 1, 1907
Honor Tucker Stetson, copy of talk presented at Stetson Kindred of America, 1954 Reunion
The Meeting House and the Puritan Tradition, by William Coughlan, President of the Abington Historical Society, copy of talk presented at Stetson Kindred of America, 1954 Reunion
The Stetson Coat-of-Arms, copy of talk presented at Stetson Kindred of America, 1954 Reunion
3 page description of photographs