Macdonald family papers 1808-1922

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Macdonald family papers 1808-1922

http://hdl.handle.net/10079/fa/mssa.ms.0950

Principal figures in the papers are James Macdonald, his wife, Eliza Harris Miller Macdonald, and two of their six children: James Allen and Eliza. Included in the papers are family correspondence, household and travel bills and receipts, as well as the business papers of the Sanford Hall Institution, a private mental hospital operated by the family. The bulk of the papers consists of personal letters to Eliza Harris Miller Macdonald and records of the Sanford Hall Institution (1845-1915).

2 linear feet (5 boxes)

eng,

Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives

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SNAC Resource ID: 6350933

Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives

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Miller, Mary Esther.

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Macdonald, James, 1803-1849

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Physician specializing in mental disorders; superintendent of the Bloomingdale Asylum for the Insane, New York City, and founder of the Sanford Hall Institution. From the description of Diary, 1835 March, 1836 May-1837 Oct. (New York University, Group Batchload). WorldCat record id: 58760529 James Macdonald was born in White Plains, New York, on July 18, 1803, the son of Scottish immigrant Dr. Archibald Macdonald (1745-1813) and Flora Macdonald (1765-1835). He g...

Pryor, Katharine M.

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Mitchell, Maggie.

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Macdonald family

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James Macdonald: physician specializing in mental disorders; superintendent of Bloomingdale Asylum, N.Y., ca. 1832-1838; founded Sanford Hall Institution, 1844. 49 Wall St., New York City. Residence, 129 Jamaica Ave., Flushing, N. Y. James Allan Macdonald was born at New York City, on March 16, 1844. He is a son of James Macdonald and Eliza Harris (Miller) Macdonald, and has one brother, J. Archibald (Columbia 1868), and four sisters, Flora (Mrs. Barstow), Ma...

Miller, James A. (James Allen)

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Higginson, R. M.

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Miller, George, 1949-

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Epithet: former FelIow of Exeter College, Oxford British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000474.0x0000c5 Epithet: of Add MS 33106 British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000474.0x0000c8 Epithet: of Add MS 38308 British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000474.0x0000c9 ...

Littell, E.

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Barstow, Josiah Whitney, 1826-

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Macdonald, Eliza.

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Macdonald, Eliza Harris Miller, 1814-1890.

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Littell, Margaret.

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Tyler, Alice.

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Ketchum, Margaret.

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