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Fairbank-Graham family papers [box 37], 1775-1980

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Title Fairbank-Graham family papers [box 37], 1775-1980

Creator Fairbank, Nathaniel Kellogg, 1829-1903

Date 1870-1920

Place Maryland, United States

Subjects Industrialists, International Medical Congress

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Summary Correspondence, personal and business materials, documents, diaries, writings, photographs, and maps of the Fairbank, Graham, and related families, including the Carpenter, Davis, and Beeckman families. Fairbank family materials include correspondence between Fairbank family members Nathaniel Kellogg Fairbank, his wife Helen Graham, and their children Kellogg, Dexter, Helen, Margaret, Livingston, Nathalie, and Wallace, some personal materials, and a few papers relating to the financial assets and estate of Nathaniel Kellogg Fairbank. Papers of the Graham family include family correspondence and business papers of John A. Graham who was involved in the coal and iron industries in the Cumberland, Maryland area during the Civil War. The Carpenter family materials consist mainly of correspondence between Helen Fairbank Carpenter, her husband Benjamin Carpenter, and their children. There is also significant genealogical correspondence written in the research of Helen Fairbank Carpenter's two family histories. Davis materials center on the three generations of physicians starting with Nathan S. Davis Sr., who founded the American Medical Associatoin, his son Nathan Davis, Jr., and grandson Nathan S. Davis III. Their papers include materials pertaining to Davis Sr.'s professional activities, correspondence and notes of Nathan S Davis, Jr., and published medical articles, and writing and research materials of Nathan S. Davis III. The collection also includes family history materials and transcriptions of many family letters; photographs, portraits and candid shots of the Fairbank and Graham families, their ancestors, vacation homes, ancestral homes, and gravesites; scrapbooks kept by Louise B. Graham and George B. Graham; and maps of areas in which John A. Graham had coal and iron interests.

Biographical/Historical Note Nathaniel Kellogg Fairbank was a prominent Chicago businessman and civic leader; John Andrew Graham was an east coast industrialist with interests in New York and Maryland. These families were connected by the marriage of Nathaniel Kellogg Fairbank, a prominent Chicago businessman, and Helen Beeckman Graham, daugher of East Coast industrialist John Andrew Graham.

Extent 17.4 linear feet (37 boxes, 1 oversize box)

Format Correspondence, Genealogies, Maps, Personal narratives

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Call Number Midwest MS Fairbank-Graham

BibID 834366

Rights Status No Copyright - United States

Contributing Institution Newberry Library

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Size 3558px × 4392px 44.76 MB

Filename 998343668805867_mms_fairbank-graham_ser_7_box_37_001.tif

Unique Identifier NL111HYH