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Sosnowski family. Sosnowski family letters and scrapbooks, 1809-1949.

Title: Sosnowski family letters and scrapbooks, 1809-1949.

Two volumes (photostatic copies) consisting of volume one, 1809-1949 (memoir, biography and family history) and second volume of correspondence, 1853-1876, related to the career of Madame Sophia Sosnowski and her related Polish-American family lines in South Carolina and Georgia. Persons represented in these two volumes include members of the Sosnowski family of Polish and German descent who settled in South Carolina during the mid-19th century. German-born Sophia Wentz Sosnowski (1809-1899) and her husband Joseph Stanislaus Sosnowski (1800 or 1806-1845), a captain in the Polish army, came to New York via France shortly after their marriage in 1833. Following her husband's death, Madame Sosnowski moved the family to Columbia, S.C., and opened the South Carolina Female Collegiate Institute at Barhamville. Madame Sosnowski became renowned as a teacher of languages, literature, and vocal music. After the Civil War much of the family resettled in Athens, Ga., where Madame Sosnowski taught at the Lucy Cobb Institute and later operated her own school, known as the Home School. Sophia Augusta Sosnowski married Colonel Frank E. Schaller (1835-1881), who had been stationed in Columbia, S.C., during the Civil War. The new Schaller family also settled in Georgia and maintained close ties with the Sosnowski family. Dr. Julius Christian Sosnowski (1840-1876) married Susan Grace Townsend and resided with her family at Bleak Hall on Edisto Island, S.C. Volume, 1809-1949 (letter size - photostatic copy) consisting of biographical information on Madame Sosnowski, her teaching career at the Home School in Athens, Ga., and elsewhere, and other members of the family, an extended memoir written ca. 1909, compiled by Madam Sosnowski's granddaughter, Ida Schaller, with an introduction by Caroline Sosnowski; essays and clippings re activities of Sosnowski family in Europe and the United States during 19th and 20th centuries; genealogical information re the Herty, Peacock, Schaller, Sosnowski, and related families; clippings, obituaries, wedding announcements; and photographs. Volume, "Sosnowski family correspondence, 1853-1876 : copy of scrapbook of Mrs. James C. Seabrook" (legal size - photostatic copy) containing correspondence dating to antebellum, Civil War, and Reconstruction eras in South Carolina. Volume copied [ca. 1940s?] from an original in the possession of Mary Caroline Sosnowski Seabrook (1873-1961), the wife of James Clark Seabrook (1862-1940). Mrs. Seabrook was the daughter of Dr. Julius C. Sosnowski (1840-1876) and Susan Grace Townsend Sosnowski.

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Sosnowski family. Sosnowski family papers, 1840-1967.

Title: Sosnowski family papers, 1840-1967.

Correspondence, financial records, genealogical notes, drafts of family histories, and ephemera. Personal papers represent Sophia Wentz Sosnowski (1809-1899), Karoline Josephine Sosnowski, Julius Christian Sosnowski (1840-1876), John Ferrars Sosnowski (1869-1946), Julius Christian Sosnowski (1877-1942), Col. Frank E. Schaller, Ida Schaller Peacock, Sophia Schaller Herty (1867-1929), and the Townsend family. Smaller amounts of materials concern the Herty, Seabrook, and Langley families, all of whom were related to the Sosnowski family through marriage. Genealogical notes cover the Sosnowski, Schaller, Townsend, and Wentz families.

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Sosnowski family. Papers of the Sosnowski and Schaller Families, 1828-1948.

Title: Papers of the Sosnowski and Schaller Families, 1828-1948.

Chiefly Civil War and family correspondence and business papers including information on professional lives of Sophie Sosnowski and Frank Schaller; including manuscript, 1865, Madame Sophie Sosnowski, recording eye-witness account of W.T. Sherman's burning of Columbia, S.C.; diary, 1861-1862, kept by Frank Schaller re family and military activities; 2 letters, 27 July 1861 and 28 June 1877, Mississippi and Georgia, re roster of the 22nd Mississippi Infantry, commanded by Col. F[rank] Schaller. Letter, 3 Jan. 1863, Edgewood, S.C., Francis W. Pickens to Gen. P.G.T. Beauregard, re military leadership; letter, 22 Sept. 1853, Aiken, S.C., Julia DuPre to Madame [Sosnowski], re teaching at DuPre School, offering Caroline [Sosnowski] headmaster position at Aiken School, Aiken, S.C., and suggesting Madame might also be interested in headmaster position. Letter, 29 Jan. 1865, Richmond, Va., W[illiam] Porcher Miles, to Frank Schaller, suggesting establishment of historical society, and his translation of Marshal Marmont's "The spirit of military institutions;" letter, 6 Aug. 1866, Columbia, S.C., Peter J. Shand, to [Madame Sosnowski], Athens, Ga., re Shand's family, community relations, mailing her marriage certificate, and destruction of his parochial register. Letter, 10 Sept. 1866, Columbia, S.C., E[mily] T[imrod] Goodwin, to Sophie Schaller, declining teaching position offer; letter, 11 Nov. 1874, [Edisto Island], S.C., Julius [Sosnowski], to Madam, re cotton harvest and Reconstruction politics; undated letter, Ben[jamin] C[udworth] Yancey, to Col. [Frank Schaller], declining commissioner position, and publication and distribution of a pamphlet to the state legislature and planters convention at Milledgeville, S.C. Poetry volume, 1857, Frank Schaller, written in German; newspaper clipping, 19 July 1899, Athens, Ga., re death of Madame Sophie Sosnowski including a brief biography; inventory, 24 Sept. 1932, listing manuscripts, letters, and photographs; undated poem, "Two Portraits," written for Sophie [Sosnowski], by Henry Timrod.

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