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Frederick W. Kobbé and Helen Jay De Bois genealogical research papers

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Description
Frederick William Kobbé (1887-1946) was an attorney and an amateur genealogist. The collection contains his correspondence, genealogical notes and charts.
Names
Kobbé, Frederick William (Creator)
Dubois, Helen Jay (Creator)
Dates / Origin
Date Created: 1817 - 1944
Library locations
Manuscripts and Archives Division
Shelf locator: MssCol NYGB 18173
Topics
Say, Lucy
Say, Thomas, 1787-1834
Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia
American Philosophical Society
Entomological Society of Philadelphia
Linnean Society of London
Peale's Museum (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Royal Physical Society of Edinburgh
Genealogists
New York (State) -- Genealogy
Genres
Family histories
Genealogical tables
Documents
Notes
Biographical/historical: Frederick William Kobbé (1887-1946) was an attorney and an amateur genealogist.
Content: Genealogical notes and charts, and Frederick W. Kobbé's genealogical correspondence, ca. 1930s-1940s, on the Kobbé family, and also on the Clarkson, Cornell, Du Bois, Smith,and miscellaneous families. Copies and a few originals of 17th through 19th century wills, correspondence, accounts, certificates, receipts, clippings of illustrations of coats of arms, and miscellaneous documents of the above families. Of note are membership certificates issued to Thomas Say of Philadelphia from the American Philosophical Society of Philadelphia, 1817; the Societatis Regiae Physicae Edinburghenae, ca. 1831; Linnean Society, London, 1829; Musuem Philadelphiense, ca. 1821; the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, 1824; and a membership certificate from the Entomological Society of Philadelphia,1863, to Lucy Say of Newburgh, New York.
Physical Description
Extent: 1.42 linear feet (2 boxes, 1 volume)
Type of Resource
Text
Identifiers
NYPL catalog ID (B-number): b18623030
MSS Unit ID: 18173
Universal Unique Identifier (UUID): 4cdd3410-a5ec-013d-3a0a-0242ac110002
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