Photograph Album of the Newell Family of Newton, Massachusetts - Kellogg Homestead -
Photograph Album of the Newell Family of Newton, Massachusetts - Kellogg Homestead -
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Photograph Album of the Newell Family of Newton, Massachusetts - Kellogg Homestead -
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Description ca. 225 photos. (in album). - Note Majority of photographs of West Newton with handwritten captions describing photographs - The Newell family moved from Colrain, Massachusetts to West Newton, leaving their farming roots to become successful merchants, inventors, and manufacturers in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The family photograph album shows family members, their houses (interior, exterior and grounds), family homesteads, farms, mills, views from their Boston offices, and their West Newton neighborhood. - Two story clapboard house with chimney, bulkhead and out buildings, caption: I believe this to be the Kellogg Homestead in Jamaica, Vt. Josephine Kellogg [birthplace of Dr. Edwin B. Kellogg, Medical Examiner for the John Hancock Life Insurance Co of Boston and Emeline Kellogg the wife of Franklin Newell of Colrain, Mass. and mother of George F. Newell, of Greenfield and West Newton, Mass.] -
