Foster/Layton Families Collection, 1836-1862

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Title:: Foster /Layton Families Collection,
Dates:: 1836-1862
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Language:: English.
Preferred citation:: [Identification of item], Foster /Layton Families Collection, Mss168, Holt-Atherton Department of Special Collections, University of the Pacific Library

Scope and content:: 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.
Biographical / historical:: 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.
Physical location:: For current information on the location of these materials, please consult the library's online catalog.
Physical description:: 0.25 linear ft.

Collection Guide Author:: Processed by Daryl Morrison; revised by Don Walker; machine-readable finding aid created by Don Walker
Date Prepared:: © 1998
Date Encoded:: Machine-readable finding aid derived from paper by means of scanning and OCR; OCR file edited for typographical errors before encoding. Date of source: 1994; 1998.

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Preferred citation:: [Identification of item], Foster /Layton Families Collection, Mss168, Holt-Atherton Department of Special Collections, University of the Pacific Library

Location of this collection:: University of the Pacific

University of the Pacific, Holt-Atherton Department of Special Collections, University Library

Stockton, CA 95211, US