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More lasting than brass : a thread of family from Revolutionary New York to industrial Connecticut / by Peter Haring Judd, members of the Haring, Herring, Clark, Denton, Phelps, White, Griggs, Judd and related Families ; with a foreword by Alan Taylor.
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Judd, Peter H.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Herring family.
- New York (State)--Biography.
- New York (State).
- Connecticut--Biography.
- Connecticut.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- xxxi, 603 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Boston, Mass. : Newbury Street Press : Northeastern University Press, [2004]
- Summary:
- Skillfully joining genealogy with history, this volume chronicles and illuminates in accessible narrative the whole lives of members of a single strand of family through seven generations.
- Contents:
- Land and rebellion in the Hudson Valley
- Merchants in a vast empire
- Finding a way in the new republic
- Hemm'd thick all around with sailships and steamships
- Family life and a maturing city
- Waterbury matures
- Coming of age
- Transitions
- Before the Great War
- The twenties
- Death and transformation
- Marriage, family life, loss
- An ending.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 545-565) and index.
- ISBN:
- 1555536263
- OCLC:
- 54966906
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