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Leavenworth family. Leavenworth family papers, 1733-1927.

Title: Leavenworth family papers, 1733-1927.

Correspondence, journals, memorandum books, sermons, an autograph album (1822), and other papers of Abner Johnson Leavenworth and of his son, Frederick P. Leavenworth. Sermons comprise about half of the manuscript collection. Includes pre-Civil War letters from theological students in Connecticut, Massachusetts, and New York; a tuition ledger for the Van Buren, Arkansas Female Seminary (1860-1862); and genealogical information on the Leavenworth family. Correspondents include Calvin Colton, Harrison Gray, Otis Dwight, Jeremiah Evarts, Samuel Lee, Benjamin Palmer, and Noah Porter.

ArchivalResource: 2,838 items.

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Leavenworth, Frederick Peabody, b. 1833. Frederick Peabody Leavenworth papers, 1807-1911 (bulk 1873-1907).

Title: Frederick Peabody Leavenworth papers, 1807-1911 (bulk 1873-1907).

Papers of Leavenworth, railroad engineer of Petersburg, Va., and Shreveport, La., including family correspondence and personal business papers, chiefly 1873-1907, concerning Leavenworth's personal and real property, credit, and insurance, as well as his real estate and surveying activities; a personal diary, 1911, at Petersburg; and engineering notes, 1874, concerning soundings in the Bayou region of Louisiana. Included is correspondence among members of theLeavenworth family: Frederick Peabody Leavenworth; his father, the Rev. Abner Johnson Leavenworth (1803-1869), Presbyterian clergyman and teacher, and president of Leavenworth Female College in Petersburg; his wife, Eliza Leavenworth; his daughter, Hester Leavenworth; and his aunt, Mary Ann Peabody of Petersburg.

ArchivalResource: 166 items (0.5 linear ft.)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/24997415 View

Leavenworth, Abner Johnson, 1803-1869. Papers, 1825-1850.

Title: Papers, 1825-1850.

Correspondence and papers of Rev. Abner J. Leavenworth, Presbyterian clergyman relating to his theological studies at Andover, Mass. and New Haven, Conn. and his ministry at Waterbury and Bristol, Conn., Charlotte, N. C.. and Warrenton and Petersburg, Va. Includes correspondence and accounts, 1835-1838, with Turner & Hughes, booksellers in Raleigh, N. C. Includes correspondence with his wife Elizabeth M. Peabody Leavenworth and a letter, 1832, from missionary friends in Turkey.

ArchivalResource: 121 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/22572756 View