Macdowell family

Family papers by Eli T Tappan ( )
in English and held by 1 WorldCat member library worldwide
President and professor of Kenyon College, Ohio Commissioner of Common Schools, and treasurer and president of the National Education Association. Correspondence between members of the Tappan family including Tappan, his wife Lydia Lucretia (McDowell) Tappan, their children Charles and Mary, and Mary's husband John Henry Wright. Contact repository for more information

Dorothy Kelly MacDowell genealogical collection by Dorothy Kelly MacDowell ( Book )
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Consisting chiefly of genealogical files re DuBose, Gaillard, MacDowell, McDowell and related families, correspondence with family members in the U.S., Canada, and Scotland, and topical files re Beech Island, S.C., and elsewhere

Brevard and McDowell family ( )
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Papers of members of the Brevard, McDowell, and related families. Papers of Alexander Brevard include land grants, deeds, wills, and business papers relating to Mount Tirzah Forge in Lincoln County, including some relating to slaves working at the Forge; North Carolina Revolutionary War militia papers, including a muster roll, 1780-1781; and an account, 1827, of his war service. Joseph Brevard's papers include a diary of a trip, 1791, from Camden, S.C., to Philadelphia and New York; a catalog, 1794, of his library; and a military order book kept at Fort Moultrie, S.C., during the War of 1812. Papers after 1871 are chiefly business papers of the McDowell family, including the diary, 1870-1874, of Rebecca Brevard McDowell, concerning her household and family activities, and her housekeeping book, ca. 1859-1870. Other items include volumes containing Brevard, McDowell, Wright, and Roach family genealogical information and newspaper articles written by Franklin Brevard McDowell about historical topics

Papers of the Reaves and McDowell families ( Book )
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Nine letters, 20 October 1861 - 29 August 1864, of the related Reaves and McDowell families include correspondence between family members who lived at opposite ends of Kershaw District, S.C., in Flat Rock and Tiller's Ferry as well as letters from Confederate soldiers James Reaves and John Ursery

Witherspoon and McDowall family ( )
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The collection is chiefly letters from John and Susan Davis Witherspoon to their daughter, Susan Witherspoon McDowall, and her husband, William D. McDowall. Topics relate to family matters, particularly the health of various family members and the precarious financial situation the Witherspoons faced in balancing John's desire for a better position within the Presbyterian Church, his teaching ambitions, and his planting endeavors. Discussions of the latter topic include management of slaves on Tusculum, the family plantation, and the sale of these slaves when the family decided to leave Hillsboro, N.C. Also documented are journeys of John to Greensboro, Ala., and of Susan Witherspoon and her sickly daughter, Mary, to consult with doctors in Philadelphia. On the McDowall side, the chief topics relate to the raising of their young family in Camden, S.C. Also included is a small amount of information about William McDowall's business endeavors, notably with the Charleston firm of Shannon and McDowall, which seems to have handled cotton sales, and a few letters from other of the McDowalls' relatives and friends

Bert's eye view coping with macular degeneration by Bert Silverman ( Recording )
1 edition published in 1997 in English and held by 1 WorldCat member library worldwide

McDowell family record by McDowell family ( )
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Family data, ca. 1950, concerning the descendants of Ephraim McDowell, Scotch-Irish founder of the McDowell families of Virginia and Kentucky, listing many names and marriages, but no dates

Papers of Amanda Sarah Boyd by Amanda Sarah Boyd ( Book )
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The papers consist chiefly of letters to Boyd, of Oktibbeha County, Mississippi, from various Vick nieces and nephews in Lexington and Tanglewood, Texas. They discuss family news including births, illnesses, deaths, and marriages, as well as school, quiltings, church meetings, the weather, cotton, and other crops, and local crimes. The Farmer's Alliance, 1888, which family members joined, is also briefly mentioned

by McDowell Family ( )
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Photocopied family correspondence from the 1860s of a family in Mt. Pleasant, Iowa

McDowell family papers by McDowell family ( )
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This is a collection of papers of the McDowell family of Kentucky, the product of two distinct accessions