Letters, Memoirs – Lyme Public Hall & Local History Archives

Honoring Joseph A. Caples 1874-1954, Lyme, CT

ByLocal History Archives February 12, 2017January 22, 2021

The Lyme Local History Archives is honoring the life of Joseph A. Caples of Gungy Road, Lyme, Connecticut (1874-1954) for Black History Month, 2016. He wrote a memoir (1949) and several diaries (1913-1941) which are now in the Archives’ Collection. They are unique and historically important documents. He wrote: “I am starting this little Memoir from way back in…

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The Future Dr. Ely from “…somewhere in France” 1918

ByLocal History Archives January 28, 2017January 22, 2021

One of the many letters in the Archives was written by the late Dr. Julian Ely (1894-1980) in 1918 when he was serving in France during World War I as a Private in the U. S. Army medical department. He grew up in Lyme, CT and would become a much-loved physician to the people of Lyme, following…