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Avery family letters

Collection — Multiple Containers

Identifier: 37-5-4095

Scope and content

Letters to Mr. and Mrs. Stephen F. Avery, primarily from their children at Cornell. Letters discuss football games, classes, professors, dances, dinners, parties, sororities, school activities, traditions, and more. Harry wrote about the 1903 typhoid epidemic, and Christine wrote a long letter to her parents when they didn't approve of her engagement to Prof. Rogers.

Dates

1899-1911.

Creator

Language of Material

In English.

Biographical / Historical

Stephen Forrest Avery attented Cornell from 1869 to 1972, and received an LL.B. degree from the Albany Law School. He married Mary Schermerhorn, and they had four children: Harry Bain Avery, who received an M.D. degree from Cornell in 1905; Christine Schermerhorn Avery '09 (married professor of poultry science Clarence A. Rogers); Madeline Sally Avery '13 (married professor of farm management Kenneth C. Livermore); and Fritz Avery.