Woods (Jean M.) Collection, 1850-1994

Summary

Title:

Woods (Jean Muir) Collection,

Dates:

1850-1994

Creators:

Jean Muir Woods

Language:

English.

Preferred citation:

[Identification of item], Woods (Jean Muir) Collection, Mss268, Holt-Atherton Department of Special Collections, University of the Pacific Library

Background

Scope and content:

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.

Biographical / historical:

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.

Physical location:

For current information on the location of these materials, please consult the library's online catalog.

Physical description:

3 linear ft.

Indexed terms

Subjects:

Scotland -Genealogy

About this collection guide

Collection Guide Author:

Processed 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: October 1998.

Restrictions:

Collection is open for research.

Preferred citation:

[Identification of item], Woods (Jean Muir) Collection, Mss268, 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

Contact:

(209) 946-2404

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