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Jarvis family

 Family

Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:

James Jackson Jarves collection

 Collection
Call Number: MS 301
Abstract:

Consists of family correspondence, general correspondence, diaries, and memorabilia of the Jarves family. Major family correspondents are James Jackson Jarves, his first wife, Elizabeth Russell Swain Jarves, his son Horatio Deming Jarves, and his second wife Isabel Heyden Jarves. Collection also contains working files of Francis Steegmuller, author of The Two Lives of James Jackson Jarves, 1951.

Dates: 1838-1954

Jarvis-Robinson Family Papers

 Collection
Call Number: WA MSS S-2948
Abstract:

Correspondence, diaries, printed material, business papers, personal papers, photographs, postcards, and maps relating to Samuel Colt and the Jarvis-Robinson family.

Dates: 1740-1963, bulk 1830-1920