Jones and Bissell families papers, 1843-1974.

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Jones and Bissell families papers, 1843-1974.

Primarily correspondence between members of the Jones family of Winsted and Hartford, Connecticut, namely among Charles Bissell, Anna Henn Bissell, Edwin Pitkin Jones, Mary G. Coult Jones, Edward Payson Jones, Frances Isabelle Bronson Jones, Roderick Bissell Jones, Edward Payson Jones, Jr., and Esther Sherwood Jones. Includes letters from Roderick while on a tour of Europe in 1926, and letters between Frances Isabelle Bronson and Edward P. Jones and between Edward P. Jones Jr. (called Payson) and Esther Sherwood prior to their marriages. Also estate records of Roderick B. Jones who bequeathed some of his furniture to the Connecticut Historical Society in 1974.

12 linear feet (24 1/2 boxes).

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Jones, Edward Payson, 1900-1981.

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Bronson family.

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Jones, Roderick Bissell, 1898-1974

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Jones, Frances Isabelle Bronson, 1864-1956

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Bissell, Anna Henn, 1843-1876.

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Jones, Mary Coult, 1830-1910.

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Jones, Edwin Pitkin, 1826-1908.

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Bissell family.

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Jones, Edward Payson, 1866-1953

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Edward P. Jones resided in Winsted, Ct. From the description of Congregational meeting houses in Connecticut : 190 white Connecticut meeting houses and 54 brick or stone edifices : erected by Congregational Churches organized between one hundred and three hundred and eighteen years ago / Edward P. Jones, 1948. (Winterthur Library). WorldCat record id: 122573913 ...

Bissell, Charles Roderick, 1831-1900.

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Jones family.

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Edward Payson Jones of Winsted, Connecticut, was born in Barkhamsted and attended local schools and the Williston Academy in East Hampton, Mass. He was chariman of the Conferece of Examining Boards of Embalmers of the United States and was also the first secretary of the State Board of Examiners of Embalmers. In 1897 he purchased the Winsted Steam Laundry which he operated for fifty years. His wife was Frances Isabella Bronson Jones. Their son Roderick B. Jones was a patent attorney in New York,...

Jones, Esther Sherwood.

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