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Title: Woods (Jean Muir) Collection,
Date (inclusive): 1850-1994
Collection number: Mss268
Creator:
Jean Muir Woods
Extent: 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], Woods (Jean Muir) Collection, Mss268, Holt-Atherton Department
of Special Collections, University of the Pacific Library
Woods, Jean Muir
Muir, Warner
Muir family -Photograph collections
Muir family -Genealogy
Scotland -Genealogy
Missouri -Genealogy
Jean Muir Woods is the great granddaughter of Scottish clergyman, Robert Muir of
Kilmarnock. Robert Muir brought his wife and thirteen children to America in about 1850.
Jean Muir Woods is the granddaughter of Robert Muir's youngest child, Joseph William, who
settled in northern Missouri, near Balckow. Her father, Joseph Warner Muir, was a
Congregationalist minister in the Midwest, while she, herself, earned a Ph.D. in German
at the University of Oregon, where her husband was a Professor of Music during the 1950s
and 1960s.
The Woods Collection consists of: a "Statement about my branch of the Muir Family" (1994)
by Dr. Jean Muir Woods; a photo album (c1875) containing pictures of Dr. Woods' immediate
family; a wool blanket woven by members of the family in Scotland (before 1850); and,
some loose photos of 20th Muirs, including Jean Muir Woods and her brother, Rev. Warner
Muir.