This collection consists of family and other papers collected by Stewart Huston of Coatesville, Pennsylvania. Included are correspondence, legal papers, social notices, photographs and printed materials. In addition to the family papers there are other papers collected by Stewart Huston. The largest part of this collection consists of Stewart family papers and related lines: Armour, Huston, Leaken, Reid and Welman, all of Savannah. They include correspondence, legal papers, a slave bill of sale, and social notes. The papers of William R. Leaken and Ruth (Stewart) Leaken form the greatest proportion of these papers. Leaken was Assistant U.S. District Attorney, 1898-1906, and Collector of the Port of Savannah, 1906-1913, and most of his papers concern these two positions; there are also a few personal papers. Mrs. Leaken was a prominent clubwoman who was State Chairman of the Women's Committee of the Liberty Loan Drives, 1917-1918, and was prominent in the Women's Suffrage Movement in Georgia. Her papers contain letters from her husband and papers relating to her civic and social interests. She married, second, William Duncan Judkins of Danville, Va., and there are a few Judkins papers in the collection. In addition to family papers, the collection contains some other papers collected by Stewart Huston. They are a few papers relating to the estate of Matthew Mauve of Savannah, 1757-1788, and letter books of Dr. Richard Dennis Arnold (ca. 1808-1876), prominent physician of Savannah, 1834-1876.
