Research Catalog

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Additional authors

1. Hartman, Helen B
2. New York Genealogical and Biographical Society Collection

Description

1. 1.5 linear feet (3 boxes).

Summary

1. The Clay family genealogical research papers consist of genealogical scrapbooks; correspondence of Edna Clay Goodspeed and Helen B. Hartman relating to their genealogical research on the Clay family and related Pennock, Mathewson, Madison, Pontius, Cobean, Hanna, Brinckerhoff, Coe, and Boyd families, with notes and family trees; some personal papers, 1916-1957, of Edna Clay Goodspeed; and the manuscript of Goodspeed's work, Some Ohio Pioneers.

Donor/Sponsor

1. Gift of the New York Genealogical and Biographical Society.

Subject

1. Clay family
2. Coe family
3. Mathewson family
4. Pennock family
5. Ohio -- Genealogy

Genre/Form

1. Genealogies.
2. Manuscripts for publication.
3. Photographs.
4. Scrapbooks.

Call number

1. MssCol NYGB 18114

Access (note)

1. Advance notice required. Apply at http://www.nypl.org/mssref

Biography (note)

1. Edna Pearl Clay Goodspeed (1884-1963) was an active member of the Daughters of the American Revolution who served as a nurse overseas during World War I.

Provenance (note)

1. Gift of Helen B. Hartman to the New York Genealogical and Biographical Society, 1981.

Author

1. Goodspeed, Edna Clay.

Title

1. Clay family genealogical research papers, 1811-1965.

Restricted access

1. Advance notice required. Apply at http://www.nypl.org/mssref

Biography

1. Edna Pearl Clay Goodspeed (1884-1963) was an active member of the Daughters of the American Revolution who served as a nurse overseas during World War I. Her ancestors included Revolutionary War soldiers Charles Mathewson, Capt. Aaron Coe, David Clay and Capt. Samuel Cobean, and tailor Otis Madison, who pioneered a new system for garment measuring and cutting in the early nineteenth century. At the time of Goodspeed's death she was preparing a history of the the Clay family of Ohio and related Pennock, Mathewson, Madison, Pontius and other families, entitled Some Ohio Pioneers. Her writings, notes and research materials were given to genealogist Helen B. (Blanchard) Hartman with whom Goodspeed had been collaborating before her death.

Finding aids

1. Finding aid available in repository and on internet: http://www.nypl.org/research/chss/spe/rbk/faids/clayfam.pdf

Provenance

1. Gift of Helen B. Hartman to the New York Genealogical and Biographical Society, 1981.

Source

1. MSS 2008M27

Connect to:

1. Finding Aid

Occupation

1. Genealogists.

Added author

1. Hartman, Helen B.
2. New York Genealogical and Biographical Society Collection.

Research call number

1. MssCol NYGB 18114