Biographical Material
name: label: Collection Creator
content: Lay, Oliver Ingraham, 1845-1890
label: Collection Creator
content: Lay, Charles Downing, 1877-1956
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content: Oliver Ingraham Lay, Charles Downing Lay, and Lay Family papers
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content: Oliver Ingraham Lay, Charles Downing Lay, and Lay Family papers / Series 1: Oliver Ingraham Lay and Marian Wait Lay Papers
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1818-1888
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.layoliv, Subseries 1.1
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: This subseries contains biographical material on Charles Downing and various individuals from the Brown and Wait families.  Files include handwritten accounts of Charles Downing by a family member and copies of obituaries on Charles Downing (Marian's uncle), a marriage certificate of William A. Brown and Phebe C. Brown, the wills of Robert Bagg and William Brown, respectively, and abstracts of the last Wills and Testaments of Robert Earle and his wife, Maria Earle (sister of William Brown).