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Title: Chapman Goss Family Photograph Album
Identifier/Call Number: MS-32
Contributing Institution:
Santa Barbara Trust for Historic Preservation. Presidio Research Center
Language of Material:
English
Physical Description:
1.0 item
Date: 1872-1888
General Physical Description note: 1 velvet covered photograph album with broken metal clasp. 17 pages with 49 photos inserted. Three photos are either tintypes
or daguerrotypes but have not yet been identified as such.
William Freeman Myrick Goss (born c. 1828 in Massachusetts) came to Santa Barbara as early as 1866, according to voter registration
records. (He is not to be confused with his nephew of the same name, born in 1857 who became Dean of Engineering at Purdue
University.) He married Etta May Marcy (b. 1862), daughter of Hannah Chapman Marcy (b. 1834) and William C. Marcy (b. 1822).
The Marcys lived in Washington state before moving to Santa Barbara, which may have been as early as 1875. Their descendants
and other relatives continued to live in Santa Barbara until their deaths.
This album contains photographs from the late 1800s of the families of William Freeman Myrick Goss and Hannah Elizabeth Chapman
Marcy. The earliest photograph is dated 1872, but several tintypes or daguerrotypes may have been taken earlier. Last names
of people included in the album are (in order of appearance): Gaston, Marcy, Atkinson, Burgess, Ingham, Sawyer, Clink, Chapman,
Goss, Barlow, Cooper, Scudder, Clark, Pratt, and Atkins.
All requests for permission to publish or quote from manuscripts must be submitted in writing to the Associate Director for
Historical Resources. Permission for publication is given on behalf of the Santa Barbara Trust for Historic Preservation Research
Center 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 reader.
Conditions Governing Access note
Collection is open to qualified researchers with approval from the Associate Director for Historical Resources.
Goss, Etta May. [Reminiscences]. [193?]. Reminiscences by Etta May Marcy Goss about her parents' trip west in 1852, their
homesteading at Boisfort, and then moving to Little Rock in Thurston County, Wash. WorldCat record 41741939.
Chapman Goss Family Photograph Album, MS-32, Presidio Research Center, Santa Barbara Trust for Historic Preservation.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Goss, Etta May Marcy
Goss, William Freeman Myrick
Marcy, Hannah Chapman
photograph albums