Archive Record
Metadata
Title |
Foster Family Papers Series 3: Family |
Scope & Content |
Foster Family Papers Series 3: Family Correspondence, notebooks, schoolwork, diaries, and other documents relating to the Foster family and their relatives, ca. 1860 to 1980. This series is broken into 6 subseries: Emma Louise Foster; Charles Grant Foster; Caroline Rose Foster; Genealogy; Siblings, which includes Emma Phelps Foster, Alice Foster, Julia Ward Foster, George B. Foster, Ralph Foster, John Seeley Ward, Harriet Foster Ward, Maude Thompson, Mr. & Mrs. James Phelps Foster, William "Uncle Bill" Thompson, Frederick Rose Foster, Caroline "Aunt Carrie" Thompson, Kate Thompson, and others; and General. |
Object Name |
Papers, Personal |
Catalog Number |
2020.005.0003 |
Collection |
Fosterfields Collection |
Physical characteristics |
19 boxes of material, typed and handwritten. |
Creator |
Foster Family members |
Other Creators |
Foster, Charles Foster, Emma Louise Foster, Emma Phelps Foster, Caroline |
Biographical History |
On her death in 1979 at age 102, Caroline left her property to the Morris County Park Commission including the Willows, farm, archives, and some of the house's contents. Most of the rest of her estate went to her cousin, Mrs. Jean Patterson, the granddaughter of Emma's brother, John Seely Ward Thompson and his wife Josephine Coles Smith. Charles, Emma, and their three children are all buried at Green-Wood Cemetery in Brooklyn, NY. |
Year Range from |
1839 |
Year Range to |
1979 |
System of arrangement |
The Foster Family Papers are organized into 4 series relating to various aspects of Foster Family. Series 1: Business/Financial Series 2: Oral Histoies Series 3: Family Series 4: Farm |
Parent ObjectID |
2013.009 |
Copyrights |
Records may be copied for use in individual scholarly or personal research; however, as with all materials in the Morris County Park Commission, researchers are responsible for obtaining copyright permission to use material from the collection. |
Level of description |
Series |