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Register of the Foster /Layton Families Collection, 1836-1862
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Title: Foster /Layton Families Collection,
Date (inclusive): 1836-1862
Collection number: Mss168
Creator:
Extent: 0.3 linear ft.
Repository:
University of the Pacific. Library. Holt-Atherton Department of Special Collections
Stockton, CA 95211
Shelf location: For current information on the location of these
materials, please consult the library's online catalog.
Language:
English.
Collection is open for research.
[Identification of item], Foster /Layton Families Collection, Mss168, Holt-Atherton
Department of Special Collections, University of the Pacific Library
The Foster and Layton families, one northern, the other southern, were related by
marriage. What little is known of either family is contained in evidence discovered in
this collection. Charles Foster was an Indiana school teacher in the early years of the
19th century. Three Foster brothers, possibly Charles' sons, J.M., E.T. and John, lived
during the Civil War years in Indianapolis. A Dr. William A. Foster, residence and age
unknown, was the nephew of a Dr. Joseph Layton, who practiced medicine in St. Tammany
Parish, Louisiana just before the Civil War.
This collection includes: a school record (no location) written by Charles Foster (1836),
listing the number of days students have attended class; an letter, from Foster brothers,
J.M. and E.T., in the 54th Regiment at Burnside Barracks, Indianapolis, to their brother
John (1862); an inventory (1861) of the estate of Dr. Joseph Layton; and two
daguerreotypes.