Sumner-Rockwell collection, 1854-1925 | WorldCat.org (original) (raw)

Summary:Correspondence, bills, receipts, and other business and personal papers, of William Graham Sumner (1840-1910), professor of political science and sociology at Yale University; his son, Eliot Sumner (1873-1941), of Philadelphia, associated with the Pennsylvania Railroad, and his wife, Katherine Diana Ward (Rockwell) Sumner (1873-1936); Mrs. Sumner's parents, Alfred Perkins Rockwell (1834-1903), professor of mineralogy at Yale and businessman, and Katherine Virginia (Foote) Rockwell (1839-1902); and Mrs. Rockwell's father, businessman Samuel Edmund Foote (1787-1858)