Scott C. Steward
Scott C. Steward was the founding editor at Vita Brevis; he served as NEHGS Editor-in-Chief 2013-2022. He is the author, co-author, or editor of genealogies of the Ayer, Le Roy, Lowell, Saltonstall, Thorndike, and Winthrop families. His articles have appeared in The New England Historical and Genealogical Register, NEXUS, New England Ancestors, American Ancestors, and The Pennsylvania Genealogical Magazine, and he has written book reviews for the Register, The New York Genealogical and Biographical Record, and the National Genealogical Society Quarterly.
Dear Petra: This is great -- thanks! I have a photo of Anna Q. Nilsson by Harold Dean Carsey, but…
On A family of photographers
Thanks, Pamela and Virginia!
On ‘One’s vanity does penance always’
Thanks, Deborah!
On Over-egging the pudding
Linda, I think this is a reference to the regnal years of King George II. He came to the British…
On Over-egging the pudding
Thanks, Jeff!
On Over-egging the pudding
Thanks, Virginia. Yes, modern as she is in so many ways, the world Mrs. Gray describes (she was born 1818)…
On ‘Of course nobody stopped talking’
Thanks, Beverley! She always has something interesting to say!
On ‘A free citizen’
Thanks, Carolyn! Mrs. Gray also quotes some of the views of the Clay family as they visited Boston before, during,…
On ‘Of course nobody stopped talking’
Diane, That's wonderful news! I have a number of Jack, Roman, and (I think other) Henry Freulich images -- I…
On A family of photographers
Farrar, the pre-war references to the South are few, although in the final weeks of the presidential election she writes…
On ‘Of course nobody stopped talking’