Mary Susan Ker papers, 1785-1923 [microform].

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Mary Susan Ker papers, 1785-1923 [microform].

Letters of Mary Susan Ker of Natchez, Miss. and her family and friends. Includes papers of John Ker (1789-1850), including items relating to his work with the American Colonization Society.

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Anne Firor Scott was born April 24, 1921 in Montezuma Georgia. She married Andrew MacKay Scott in 1947. She graduated summa cum laude in 1941 from the University of Georgia and earned her M.A. at Northwestern in 1944 and her Ph.D. in 1958 at Radcliffe College. From 1944-1947 and again from 1951-1953, Scott served as a research associate, congressional representative and editor of THE NATIONAL VOTER for the League of Women Voters of the United States. She began teaching at Duke University in 1961...

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Medical doctor of Good Hope Plantation of Concordia Parish, La., and the father of Mary Susan and William H. Ker. From the description of John Ker thesis, 1811. (Louisiana State University). WorldCat record id: 86114709 John Ker, a medical doctor and planter of Good Hope Plantation, Concordia Parish, Louisiana, was the father of Mary Susan and William H. Ker. From the description of John Ker and family papers, 1803-1862. (Louisiana State University). WorldCat rec...

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Mary Susan Ker of Natchez, Miss., was the daughter of cotton planter and American Colonization Society vice-president, John Ker (1789-1850) and Mary Baker Ker (d. 1862). From the description of Mary Susan Ker papers, 1785-1958. WorldCat record id: 23289839 Mary Susan Ker (1838-1923), daughter of Mary Baker and John Ker, was born near Natchez, Mississippi, in 1838. John Ker (1789-1850) had studied medicine in Philadelphia, served as a surgeon in the Creek War, ma...

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The American Colonization Society was founded in 1817 in Washington, D.C. for the purpose of transporting freeborn and emancipated American blacks to Africa and helping them start a new life there. From the description of List of emigrants for Liberia, 1867 Nov. 17. (The South Carolina Historical Society). WorldCat record id: 32144821 The American Colonization Society was an organization dedicated to transporting freeborn blacks and emancipated slaves to Africa, to what is n...