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Deming, Perkins, and Quincy families papers
1950-01-0
Collection
Identifier: 1950-01-0
Scope and Contents
The Deming, Perkins, and Quincy Families Papers document members of several prominent families who lived in the town of Litchfield, Conn. In the late eighteenth century, the patriarchs of each family earned wealth through their activities as merchants, traders, and investors, enabling them and many of the members of the next generations to live lives free from financial concern, if not outright luxury. The papers consist largely of correspondence, and also include collections of financial...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1762-1950; Other: Date acquired: 01/01/1921
Found in:
Litchfield Historical Society
E. B. Perkins Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War calling card
00-1960-19-1
Collection
Identifier: 00-1960-19-1
Scope and Contents
Presumed to be the calling card of Edwin B. Perkins, whose father, Edwin F. Perkins, died in 1864 while serving in the 2nd Conn. Volunteer Heavy Artillery, Co. A, during the Civil War.
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: undated; Other: Date acquired: 01/09/1960
Found in:
Litchfield Historical Society