MS 0762.1
Jerome Family Material , ca. 1824-1939
1 folder
Chronological
Forms Part of MS 0762, The Jerome Family Papers
Restrictions: Unrestricted
Last Updated: 2002/11/18
Description:
The material consists of pages from the family
Bible and a poem entitled "To Priscilla on her
Birthday" written by "M.F.V." for "Grandmother
Jerome" on November 23, 1848. The Bible was
published in 1824 and records birth, marriage,
and death dates for Jerome family members from
1752-1939 and for Gilbert family members from
1858-1939. The poem entitled "To Priscilla on her
Birthday" was written by "M.F.V." and dated
November 23rd, 1848.
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MS 0762.2
Elizabeth Gilbert Jerome Material , 1850-ca. 1870
1 folder
Chronological
Forms Part of MS 0762, The Jerome Family Papers
Restrictions: Unrestricted
Last Updated: 2001/03/20
Description:
This material consists of a commonplace book
compiled between 1850 and about 1870 by Elizabeth
Gilbert Jerome. Its title is "Elizabeth
Gilbert's Book Of Prose and Poetry, And Gems from
Late Readings. New Haven June 5th 1850". It
contains poetry, quotations, some prose and one
page of clippings regarding the death of a Dr.
Schue. Most entries are not signed and some may
be original writings by Jerome or her friends.
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MS 0762.3
Jennie G. Jerome Material , 1873-1879
3 folders
Chronological
Forms Part of MS 0762, The Jerome Family Papers.
Restrictions: Unrestricted
Last Updated: 2001/03/20
Description:
This material dates from Jennie G. Jerome's years
as a student at Hartford Female Seminary. It
consists of a spelling book from 1873, documents
found inside the spelling book dating from
1875-1878, and a school catalogue for 1878-1879
that lists names of faculty, board members and
students and describes the curriculum. The
"Spelling-Book for Advanced Classes" by William
T. Adams was published in Boston by Brewer and
Tileston. Jerome's notes concern her spelling
lessons as well as her study of algebra and
ancient history. These documents also include
poems and her "Monthly Report Card for the year
beginning Sept. 12th 1877." The card reflects her
study of rhetoric, Latin, algebra, and spelling.
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MS 0762.4
Elizabeth Maude Jerome Material , ca. 1876-1881, ca. 1920s, 1939
3 folders
Chronological
Forms Part of MS 0762, The Jerome Family Papers
Restrictions: Unrestricted
Last Updated: 2001/03/20
Description:
The material consists of a scrapbook, an
autograph album, a letter, and an obituary. The
scrapbook dates from about 1876 and is filled
with colorful stickers of flowers, birds,
insects, animals, cherubs, mythological figures,
children, and elaborately-dressed men and women.
Jerome began the autograph album when she
attended the Hartford Female Seminary in the
1870s. Entries date from about 1877-1881 and
consist of signatures, good wishes, and words of
advice written by friends, classmates, teachers
and the school principal. The letter, probably
written in the 1920s, is a request for Gilbert
family genealogical information from Frederick
Dwight of New York City. The obituary for Jerome
(which is incomplete) was photocopied from the
New Haven "Journal Courier" of January 14, 1939.
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MS 0762.5
Gilbert Nelson Jerome Material , 1914-ca. 1921
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Chronological
Forms Part of The Jerome Family Papers
Restrictions: Unrestricted
Last Updated: 2001/03/20
Description:
This material dates from 1914 to about 1921 and
consists of pages from a yearbook, tributes, and
a published biography. The biography, entitled
"Lieut. Gilbert Nelson Jerome," was written by
his mother, Elizabeth Maude Jerome, and privately
printed in 1920. It describes his childhood,
education, artistic talent, involvement with the
Boy Scouts of America and the Young Men's
Christian Association, military training and
service during World War I, and death in combat.
The book also includes some of his drawings and
poems and it is illustrated by numerous
photographs. Pages from "The Massasoit", the
yearbook of the Class of 1914 at International
YMCA College of Springfield, describe his college
achievements and extracurricular activities. A
copy of "In Memory of Yale's Dead in the War",
published by the Yale War Memorial Committee, is
attached to a letter from the University
Secretary's Office which was sent to his mother
in memory of Jerome's life and war service.
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MS 0762.6
Photographs , ca. 1860s-ca. 1920s, 1956
1 box
Chronological
Forms Part of MS 0762, The Jerome Family Papers
Restrictions: Unrestricted
Last Updated: 2001/03/22
Description:
This material contains photographs and three
photograph albums. One photograph, possibly
dating from the 1920s, is of Elizabeth Maude
Jerome. The other photographs and one album
relate to Gilbert Nelson Jerome's military
service and death during World War I. Included
are photographs of him in uniform and with his
airplane as well as photographs of the funeral
service for him at the German military cemetery
in Blamont, France, on July 14, 1918, and his
subsequent burial sites in Argonne, France and
New Haven, Connecticut. Photographs of the
Tiffany and Company memorial window given to the
Plymouth Congregational Church in New Haven by
his mother are also included in this material.
The two other photograph albums date from the
1860s to about 1900. A green leather covered
album with raised brass decorations, inscribed on
the flyleaf "Mrs. E. G. Jerome, Hartford,"
contains nineteen pages of photographs of family
members, persons of note and paintings. An "Index
to Portfolio" at the front of this volume
describes how the photographs were arranged, but
that order was changed at some point and the
album now contains carte-de-visite photographs of
Martha Washington, Abraham Lincoln and family,
Empress Carlotta of Mexico, Ulysses S. Grant, and
the children of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. Most
of the Jerome and Gilbert family photographs are
tintypes. A brown cloth-bound album contains
twenty pages of photographs of members of the
Jerome and Gilbert families. Also included in
this album are carte-de-visite photographs of
Louis Agassiz, Charles Dickens, Horace Greeley,
Elizabeth Barrett Browning, John Brown, William
T. Sherman, Edward Everett, Andrew Jackson, Anna
Dickinson, and Frederick Douglass.
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