Series I. Jesse W. Lazear circa 1800-1956 bulk 1863-1943

Containers:

Box 1-6

Extent:

6 boxes

Scope and content:

Series I. Jesse W. Lazear consists of materials relating to Lazear that Philip Showalter Hench collected while researching the yellow fever experiments. Items in this series date from around 1800 to 1956 with the bulk of the items dating from 1863 to 1943. Much of the series consists of the correspondence of Jesse W. Lazear and his wife Mabel H. Lazear. Jesse's correspondence dates from his time as a student at Johns Hopkins University to his death in 1900. Researchers can learn a great deal about Jesse from these letters, including his relationships with friends and family, his educational background, and his professional life. Mabel's correspondence dates from the time she met Jesse to her death in 1946. This correspondence primarily concern her husband's historical legacy and a campaign to secure a pension from the U.S. government for herself and her family.

In addition to Jesse and Mabel's correspondence, the series contains other materials relating to them and their families including, but not limited to the following:

• the diaries documenting the travels of Jesse and Mabel's mothers in Europe;
• correspondence of other Lazear family members (e.g. Jesse's parents);
• genealogical summaries and tables relating to the Lazear family;
• legal documents (e.g. wills, certificates, deeds);
• military records relating to Jesse;
• certificates, reports, and other materials documenting Jesse's educational background and achievements;
• obituaries;
• copies of congressional bills and reports concerning the provision of a federal pension for Mabel H. Lazear;
• newspaper articles;
• a microscope and sets of microscope slides owned by Jesse;
• and a medical chart that shows the progression of the yellow fever infection that killed Jesse.

Subjects:

announcements
articles
bills (legislative records)
biographies (documents)
booklets
books
certificates
charts (graphic documents)
clippings (information artifacts)
contracts
conveyances
death records
deeds
diaries
envelopes
estate administration records
genealogical tables
genealogies (histories)
hair
ivory (tooth component)
journals (periodicals)
keys (hardware)
legal documents
letters (correspondence)
magazines (periodicals)
medical records
microscope slide
microscopes
military records
newspapers
notes
oaths
obituaries
pamphlets
postcards
reports
reprints
speeches
telegrams
testimonials
wills

Names:

Johns Hopkins University
University of Edinburgh
New York County (N.Y.)
United States. Army
United States. Congress. House
Gilman, Son & Co.
United States. Congress. Senate
United States. Congress
Merchants’ Association of New York
Lazear, William L.
Lazear, Jesse William, 1866-1900
Hepburn, David
Maryland. Circuit Court (Baltimore)
Herron, W.A.
Bates, A.E.
Sternberg, George Miller, 1838-1915
Kean, Jefferson Randolph, 1860-1950
Futcher, Thomas B. (Thomas Barnes), 1871-1938
Truby, Albert E. (Albert Ernest), 1871-1954
Osler, William, Sir, 1849-1919
Baldwin, T.A.
Wood, Leonard, 1860-1927
Lazear, Mabel H., 1874-1946
Morris, F.H.
Paton, Stewart, 1865-1942
Thayer, William Sydney, 1864-1932
Howard, L. O. (Leland Ossian), 1857-1950
Lazear, Jesse T.
Houston, Martha P.
Kahn, Julius, 1861-1924
Reed, Walter, 1851-1902
Gorgas, William Crawford, 1854-1920
Gray, C.S.
Hurd, Henry M. (Henry Mills), 1843-1927
Latimer, Caroline
Watson, R.A.
Mead, S.C.
Mansfelde, A.S. von
Dalzell, John, 1845-1927
Lazear, Thomas C.
Lazear, William Houston
Welch, William Henry, 1850-1934
Pillsbury, E. S. (Evans Searle), 1839-
Williams, Marian Walker
Rogers, H.W.
Armstrong, J. N. (John Nelson), 1870-1944
Kane, Emma G.
Norton, Rupert
Derby, George
Seth, Alexander L.
Seth, Catherine E.
Darnall, C.R.
Anthony, Daniel Read, 1870-1931
Ireland, M. W. (Merritte Weber), 1867-1952
Gawne, James O.
Dean-Throckmorton, Jeanette
Templeton, Alexander M.
Bridges, C.H.
Agramonte, A. (Aristides), 1869-1931
van Beuren, Frederick T., Jr.
Harper, J.B.
Mellon, Andrew W. (Andrew William), 1855-1937
Howard, Sidney Coe, 1891-1939
Dougherty, Jr., T.H.,
Peddicord, Harper
Hare, Amory, 1885-1964
Albertini, A. Diaz
Stirling, H.V.

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