J. Van Buren letter, 1867.

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J. Van Buren letter, 1867.

This collection consists of a letter from J. Van Buren to Cornelius R. Hanleiter, written from Clarksville, Georgia, in 1867. Van Buren writes about the planting and harvesting of scuppernong grapes and explains how to build an arbor.

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SNAC Resource ID: 6908745

Georgia Historical Society

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Van Buren, Jane

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No biographical information on J. Van Buren is available. Cornelius R. Hanleiter (1815-1897) was born in Savannah, Georgia, the son of John Jacob Hanleiter and Elizabeth MacFarland. He was a printer, telegraph operator, and publisher in Atlanta. He also served on the Atlanta City Council and as Justice of the Inferior Court of Fulton County. He was married twice: first in 1834 to Mary Ann Ford, and again in 1849 to Ann Eliz Shaw. In all he had 14 fourteen children. From the descripti...

Hanleiter, Cornelius R., 1815-1897.

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Cornelius R. Hanleiter, journalist and Confederate soldier, was born June 14, 1815, in Savannah, Georgia, and died April 24, 1897, in Atlanta, Georgia. Hanleiter moved from Savannah, to Macon, Georgia, where he edited the SOUTHERN MISCELLANY; he then moved to Atlanta (1847), and established the NATIONAL AMERICAN, which became the GATE CITY GUARDIAN (at the start of the Civil War), then the SOUTHERN CONFEDERACY. In partnership with John H. Rice, he owned the Franklin Printing House. He entered th...