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“Volume 22” folder 3 of 3: Sanford Cobb Genealogy

 File — Container: Box: 3, Folder: 77

Dates

  • Creation: Majority of material found within 1940-1978

Creator

Conditions Governing Access

This collection is open to the public and must be used in the John M.K. Davis Reading Room of the Watkinson Library, Trinity College Library, Hartford, Connecticut. Researchers must register and agree to copyright and privacy laws when using this collection.

Extent

From the Collection: 3.5 Cubic Feet (83 folders in 3 cubic foot cartons and one .5 foot Hollinger box)

Language of Materials

From the File: English

Arrangement

• Presumed photocopy of Cobb’s family tree: Farrar Cobb’s lineage • Cobb’s family tree: Mary Curtis Cobb [Sanford Cobb’s mother] • Cobb’s family tree: Doris Jean Steele Cobb [Sanford Cobb’s wife]: part 1, Father’s side (Steele) • Cobb’s family tree: Doris Jean Steele Cobb [Sanford Cobb’s wife]: part 2, Mother’s side (Klutcher) • Cobb’s family tree: Mary Augusta Colson Curtis [Sanford Cobb’s maternal grandmother] • Photographs of Mary Augusta Colson Curtis • Copy of “Last Will” of Mary Augusta Colson Curtis • Obituary notices for Edward Bissell Curtis [Sanford Cobb’s maternal grandfather] • Tintype [erroneously identified as Daguerreotype] of Edward Bissell Curtis • “Abstract” of will for Edward Bissell Curtis • Obituaries for Edward Gilman Curtis [Sanford Cobb’s maternal uncle] • Honorable discharge certificate for Lawrence Alden Thayer [Sanford Cobb’s stepfather] • Booklet; “The Marriage Service” with list of bridal party and Marriage Certificate for Lawrence Alden Thayer and Mary Curtis Cobb dated January 31, 1953 • Five photographs of Mary Curtis Cobb [Sanford Cobb’s mother] • Certificate of Confirmation in the Episcopal Church, Newton Centre, Massachusetts, for Mary Curtis Cobb • Magazine; “Woods Hole Notes” published by the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute, Vol. 6 Number 1 (February 1974) containing article on Mary [Curtis Cobb] Thayer (pgs. 6-7) • Presumed photocopy of article written by Sanford Cobb using letter written in December 1862 by “R Line”. [Line was the maternal great-grandfather of Doris Steele Cobb]

Repository Details

Part of the Watkinson Library - Archival Collections Repository

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