Crittenden family papers 1837-1907 1849-1889 Crittenden family papers

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Crittenden family papers 1837-1907 1849-1889 Crittenden family papers

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The Crittenden family papers contain the letters of a Kentucky family living in the California and Nevada frontiers. The material centers on the family of Alexander Parker Crittenden and his wife Clara Churchill Jones, and includes letters from their parents, siblings, and children. The collection also contains diaries, documents and financial records, and family photographs (daguerreotypes, ambrotypes, tintypes, cabinet cards, cartes-de-visite, and other paper prints). The collection documents the murder of Alexander Parker Crittenden as well as family members who fought on the Confederate side of the Civil War and who participated in mining and prospecting in the West.

4 linear feet (approx. 1300 items)

eng,

William L. Clements Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 6391205

William L. Clements Library

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Crittenden, Parker, 1849-1923.

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Fair, Laura Hunt, 1837-1919.

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Crittenden, Churchill, 1840-1864

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Crittenden, James Love, 1841-1915.

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Sing Sing Correctional Facility

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New York's first state prison, Newgate, opened in New York City in 1797. Newgate was quickly found to be unsatisfactory due to poor construction and the impossibility of developing viable industries. As a result, a commission was formed in 1825 (Chapter 25) for the purpose of building a new state prison in the first or second senatorial district, based on the design of Auburn Prison, which opened in 1816. The commission was authorized to sell Newgate and was appropriated $70,000 to ...

Sanchez, Ramon Bernardo, 1824-1893.

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Van Wyck, Nannie Crittenden, 1843-1916.

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Alexander Parker Crittenden (1816-1870), hereafter A.P.C., was the son of the prominent Kentucky lawyer, Thomas Turpin Crittenden. He graduated from West Point in 1836 and in 1838, married Clara Churchill Jones Crittenden (1820-1881); they had fourteen children in twenty years, only eight of whom lived to adulthood. Clara was the daughter of Reverend Alexander Jones, Jr., and Ann Northey Churchill Jones, of Bardstown, Kentucky. The young couple first lived in Kentucky but moved to T...

Van Wyck, Clara, 1865-1901.

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Jones, Alexander, 1822-1884.

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Jones, Alexander, 1796-1874.

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Crittenden, Thomas Turpin, 1857-1933.

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Van Wyck, Sidney McMecken, 1830-1887.

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Crittenden, Alexander Parker, 1816-1870

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Biographical/Historical note Crittenden was born in Lexington, KY and was assassinated on the ferry between Oakland and San Francisco in 1870. He was married with children. He was a military cadet at West Point Military Academy from 07/01/1832-07/01/1836. He joined the army as a lieutenant and resigned 09/30/1836. He worked as an assistant engineer for the railroads in Baltimore, MD, York, PA, Charleston, SC, and Augusta, SC. He was a lawyer ...

Robinson, Mary Crittenden.

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Sanchez, Laura Crittenden, 1839-1919.

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Churchill, Marlborough, d. 1889.

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Crittenden, Howard Joseph, 1844-1871.

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Crittenden, Clara Churchill Jones, 1820-1881.

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Jones, Ann Northey Churchill, 1798-1854.

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Ossining Correctional Facility

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Joliffe, Mary “Mollie” Farquhar Jones, 1826-1892

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Craighill, Rebecca Churchill Jones, 1833-1899.

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Robinson, Tod, 1812-1870.

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Van Wyck, Sidney M., b. 1868.

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Pratt, Caroline Campbell Crittenden, 1855-1923.

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