Chambers, Cornelia Williams
Person
Biography
1850-1940; Cornelia Pond Williams Chambers
Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:
The Williams-Chambers-Seelye-Franck Papers ("The Franck Papers")
Collection
Identifier: MA.00313
Abstract
The Williams-Chambers-Seelye Family Papers (the Franck Papers) include correspondence, photographs, juvenilia, memorabilia, manuscripts, teaching materials, and publications relating to several generations of missionaries, educators, public servants, and artists. In addition to describing the lives of multiple members of the family, subjects include missionary work in Turkey in the late 19th century into the 20th century; World War I and Armenian history in the period as reported by...
Dates:
circa 1850-1980
Williams-Chambers-Blaisdell Family Papers ("The Blaisdell Papers")
Collection
Identifier: MA.00270
Abstract
The Williams-Chambers-Blaisdell Papers ("the Blaisdell Papers") contain correspondence, photographs, scrapbooks, and documents from the family of missionaries William Nesbitt Chambers and Cornelia Pond Williams Chambers and their children, especially their daughter Dorothea Nesbitt Chambers (later Blaisdell). The papers include material (primarily correspondence) from other family members such as Nesbitt and Cornelia's siblings and relatives. The bulk of the material dates from about...
Dates:
circa 1845-2010
Williams-Chambers-Seelye Family Papers
Collection
Identifier: MA.00321
Abstract
The Williams-Chambers-Seelye Family Papers consist primarily of the correspondence of three generations of the family of William Frederic and Sarah Pond Williams with relatives and friends during the family’s residence in the Ottoman Empire between 1848 and 1933, when they were missionaries working for the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions and (later) educators at various institutions. The collection also contains documentation relating to the personal and professional...
Dates:
circa 1832-1985