Walker, Spinning, and Durrell Families Papers, 1862-1955

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Summary

Creators:
Walker family Spinning family Durrell family
Abstract:
A family history collection which contains correspondence, photographs, and scrapbooks pertaining to the Walker, Spinning, and Durrell families, who are related by marriage. The correspondence includes three letters from and one letter to Hiram Walker, while he was a Union soldier in the U.S. Civil War and five letters from Hiram's daughter, Emma (Walker) Heron, while she was a missionary in India.
Extent:
1.2 linear feet
Language:
Collection materials in English.
Preferred citation:

[Identification of item], Walker, Spinning, and Durrell Families Papers, D-226, Department of Special Collections, General Library, University of California, Davis.

Background

Scope and content:

The papers contain correspondence, scrapbooks, photographs, and memorabilia of the Walker, Spinning, and Durrell families, who are related by marriage.

The correspondence series includes three letters from and one letter to Hiram Walker, while he was a Union soldier in the U.S. Civil War and five letters from Hiram's daughter, Emma (Walker) Heron, while she was a missionary in India during the 1890s.

Series 2, Scrapbooks, contains five scrapbooks compiled by Anna Walker Spinning and her daughter, Helen Spinning which document three generations of the families.

Arrangement of the Collection

The Papers are arranged into five series: Correspondence, Scrapbooks, Photographs, Artwork, and Memorabilia.

Biographical / historical:

Hiram Walker (1843-1921) served as a soldier in the United States Civil War. On December 31, 1865 he married Sarah Charity Willis (1847-1920) in Ohio.

Their daughter, Emma (1866?-April 2, 1897), served as a missionary in India with the International Missionary Alliance from 1891-1897. Circa 1894-1895, Emma married Donald Heron (d. January 30, 1896), also a missionary with the Alliance in India.

Another daughter, Anna, married William Simpson Spinning on December 31, 1902 in Duluth, Minnesota. Anna and William had two children: Marian Frances Spinning (1912- ) and Helen Margaret Spinning (1914-1983).

On May 22, 1938 Helen married Cordell Durrell (1908-1986). Cordell served as Professor of Geology at the University of California, Davis from 1963 to 1976.

Sources consulted:

Christian Missionary Alliance. Nyack, NY: Christian Alliance, June 18, 1897, v. 28 no. 25.

Processing information:

Sara Gunasekara processed these papers and created and encoded this finding aid.

Physical location:
Researchers should contact Special Collections to request collections, as many are stored offsite.
Rules or conventions:
Finding aid prepared using Describing Archives: a Content Standard

Access and use

Restrictions:

Collection is open for research.

Terms of access:

Copyright is protected by the copyright law, chapter 17, of the U.S. Code. All requests for permission to publish or quote from manuscripts must be submitted in writing to the Head of Special Collections. Permission for publication is given on behalf of the Department of Special Collections, General Library, University of California, Davis as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply permission of the copyright holder, which must also be obtained by the researcher.

Preferred citation:

[Identification of item], Walker, Spinning, and Durrell Families Papers, D-226, Department of Special Collections, General Library, University of California, Davis.

Location of this collection:
University of California, Davis, Special Collections, UC Davis Library
100 NW Quad
Davis, CA 95616-5292, US
Contact:
(530) 752-1621
speccoll@ucdavis.edu
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