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The collection consists of 8 record storage cartons, with materials dating back to London England, in 1801. It includes letters, newspaper clippings, diaries, and photograph albums.
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Mathey and Barber Family Papers
Columbia University Libraries, Rare Book and Manuscript Library
This collection documents the journalistic activities of the Mathey and Barber families. Frederick Courtenay Barber was born in Augusta, GA, in 1870. He was in the newspaper business in New York City, serving as publisher for a newspaper in Brooklyn. He and his children lived in New York City and also in Colonial Heights, Yonkers. His later work was as a philanthropic organizer throughout the United States, including in California and Dallas. He died January 1, 1937, in White Plains. Barber's first child, Edith Barber, was born June 11, 1901, and was educated at Mary Lyons School and later graduated from the University of Michigan in June, 1926. She worked for her father's firm for a while before she left for Paris, France in 1929. She was employed as a newspaper woman there and also went to Lucerne, Switzerland, on assignment, returning to New York in 1930. She was later employed at The Reporter Dispatch in White Plains and several other journalism jobs, including Bronxville as Editor, through 1968. Her brother, Wilfred Courtenay Barber, born 1905, was a newspaper man and received the Pulitzer Prize in 1936, posthumously, as a foreign correspondent. Edith Barber married Fabyan Mathey, who worked mostly for the "Marine News" in lower Manhattan. His father, Edouard DuBois Mathey, of Cranford, NJ. was an engineer for the New Jersey power company.
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