McDowell family. Papers, 1792-1950.
Title:
Papers, 1792-1950.
Family papers include diaries, scrapbooks, photographs, correspondence, Civil War medical and military records, travel journals, essays, poems, financial and legal papers, land deeds, estate papers, commonplace books, genealogical notes and printed materials. Papers, 1832-1892, of Civil War surgeon Augustus W. McDowell include military records from hospitals in St. Louis and Ironton, Missouri, correspondence, casualty reports, monthly medical reports on soldiers' conditions, lists of materia medica and a clinical notebook. Also, essays on women's suffrage, Darwinism, religion, slavery, smallpox, temperance, Drs. Henry Van Derveer and Cornelius S. Suydam, and his Civil War service. The papers of his wife, Anna Marie Osborne, include over 60 letters received from Dr. McDowell during the Civil War. Rev. William A. McDowell's papers, 1792-1862, include records of the Presbyterian Church Board of Missions, church birth and death registers, handwritten sermons, diaries, correspondence and addresses. Correspondents included Angelina Grimke, John Napier, J.K. Kollock and Rev. John McDowell. Rachel Kollock McDowell's papers include letters received, 1898-1949, scrapbooks, her newspaper articles, photographs and estate papers. Correspondents include: Harry Emerson Fosdick, William Manning, Charles Daniel Trexler and F. Cardinal Spellman.
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54.25 linear ft.
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