Bliss, Howard Sweetser, 1860-1920 (AC 1882)
Person
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
Bliss Family Papers
Collection
Identifier: MA.00021
Abstract
Correspondence (with other writings, clippings, and photographs) of members of the Bliss and Dodge families, principally of Howard Sweetser Bliss, second president (1902-1920) of Syrian Protestant College (later American University of Beirut), which was founded by his father, Daniel Bliss, in 1866. Two letters by Howard Bliss (age 13) are from 1873; additional letters (to 1920) describe his undergraduate years at Amherst College, his travels to universities at Oxford, Goettingen and Berlin...
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1856-1922; 1850-1981
Bliss, Howard (AC 1882), 1917
File — Box 27, Folder: 14
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
Lucy C. Hitchcock, sometimes called Lu, was Edward and Mary Judson Hitchcock's second daughter. Like her grandmother Orra White Hitchcock, Lucy was an artist. In 1892 she traveled with her father and mother to Brazil. Lucy lived with her sister Jane Elizabeth Hitchcock in a home on Willow Street in Brooklyn, New York, from 1923-1928. Sub-series A: Personal Affairs [1888-1938] - contains a range of materials kept by Lucy, arranged chronologically by type. It includes a diary of...
Dates:
1917