Robert McElroy collection of Jefferson Davis material 1848-1937

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Robert McElroy collection of Jefferson Davis material 1848-1937

http://archives.nypl.org/mss/4309

Jefferson Davis (1808-1889) was an American statesman and President of the Confederate States of America from 1861 to 1865. Robert McNutt McElroy (1872-1959) was a professor of history at Princeton University, and author of the 1937 biography Jefferson Davis: The Unreal and the Real. The collection consists of a small quantity of material by and about Jefferson Davis, including several autograph letters; letters to biographer Robert McElroy relating to his research on Davis and his searches for Davis's letters and papers; genealogical research, autographs, and commemorative ephemera

.1 linear foot (1 folder)

New York Public Library. Manuscripts and Archives Division

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SNAC Resource ID: 6313625

New York Public Library. Manuscripts and Archives Division

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Davis, Jefferson, 1808-1889

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Mary Ann Lamar Cobb (1818-1889), wife of Gen. Howell Cobb (1815-1868). From the description of Letter to Mary Ann Lamar Cobb, 1888 Oct. 2. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 38476494 Jefferson Davis (1808-1889) was born in Kentucky. He attended Transylvania University for a short time before enrolling at West Point in 1824, at the age of 16. He graduated in 1828 and immediately joined the First Infantry. His regiment was engaged in the Blackhawk War of 1831. In 1833, he became a...

McElroy, Robert McNutt, 1872-1959

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Editor, author, and historian. From the description of Papers of Robert McNutt McElroy, circa 1909-1924 (bulk 1913-1924). (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 71063510 Robert McNutt McElroy (1872-1959), an historian, taught at Princeton University and various universities in Great Britain and China. After teaching history at Princeton from 1898 to 1916, he became the first American exchange professor to China, lecturing on government and education from 1916 to 1917. During the 192...