Minis family papers, 1739-1948.

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Minis family papers, 1739-1948.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/25031584

The collection consists of three series. Series 1, Minis Family Materials, contains personal, business, and literary correspondence and other papers of Jacob Florance Minis, Abraham Minis, Louisa Porter Gilmer Minis, Mary Elizabeth Haskell, and other members of the Minis family. Included are two day-books, 1858-1884, a ledger, 1858-1873, a cash book, 1870-1877, and four account books, 1858-1884, of Abraham Minis, wholesale merchant of Savannah; three letterpress copy books, 1898-1903, of Jacob Florance Minis; 22 notebooks of housekeeping records, scrapbooks, and personal diaries of Louisa Minis; papers concerning property of the Hodgson, Telfair, and Habersham families, 1866-1875; and letters, 1768-1935, from members of the Minis family regarding family heirlooms, Minis family history, and the disposition of Jeremy Francis Gilmer's Civil War era maps. Series 2, Mary Haskell Materials, contains extensive correspondence with and about Kahlil Gibran, Charlotte Teller, Jacob Giller, and others; Haskell's personal diaries, with many entries describing her relationship with Gibran; Haskell's teaching materials, consisting primarily of a series of notebooks; and sketches and writings by Gibran. Series 3, Other Materials, contains photographs of Mary Haskell and friends; a map of Savannah, Ga.; a blueprint of Rockwood, the home of Jeremy Francis Gilmer and later Jacob Florance Minis; and an unidentified plat.

ca. 2500 items (16.0 linear feet)

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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SNAC Resource ID: 7140236

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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Haskell, Mary, 1873-1964

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Gilmer, Jeremy Francis, 1818-1883

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Jeremy Francis Gilmer was born in 1818 and died in 1883 in Savannah, Georgia. He graduated from West Point and was an engineer in the United States Army. Gilmer married Louise Frederika Alexander of Savannah in 1850. In 1861, he was appointed colonel in the Confederate States Army and Chief Engineer to Major General Albert Sidney Johnston. Gilmer was later appointed Major General, Chief Engineer of the Department of Northern Virginia and Chief Engineer of the War Department. He assisted in setti...

Alexander, Edward Porter, 1835-1910

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Edward P. Alexander was Chief of Artillery, 1st Corps of the Army of Northern Virginia, Confederate States Army. He was the author of several books on the Civil War and railroads, including THE WILDERNESS CAMPAIGN, MILITARY MEMOIRS OF A CONFEDERATE, THE CONFEDERATE VETERAN, FIGHTING FOR THE CONFEDERACY, SKETCH OF LONGSTREET'S DIVISION--YORKTOWN AND WILLIAMSBURG, and RAILWAY PRACTICE. From the description of E.P. Alexander circular letter, 1866. (Louisiana State University). WorldCat ...

Hodson family.

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Minis, Louisa Porter

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Telfer family.

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Gibran, Kahlil, 1883-1931

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Kahlil Gibran was a Lebanese-American philosophical essayist, novelist, poet, and artist. He was born in Lebanon but spent much of his productive life in the United States. Gibran immigrated with his parents to America in 1895; and the family settled in Boston's South End. In his early teens, the artistry of his drawings caught the eye of his teachers, and in 1898 his drawings were used for book covers. In 1904, he held his first art exhibition in Boston, and in 1912 he settled in New York City...

Minis family.

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Jacob Florance Minis of J.F. Minis & Co., shipbrokers, steamship agents, and merchants, of Savannah, Georgia, was the son of Abraham Minis, merchant. His Minis ancestors had been in the Savannah area since before the American Revolution. Minis's first wife, to whom he was married in 1890, was Louisa Porter Gilmer, the daughter of Jeremy Francis Gilmer, a United States Army engineer, 1839-1861, and Confederate Chief of Engineers. Minis married his second wife, Mary Elizabeth Haskell (1873-196...

Habersham family.

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Giller, Jacob.

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Teller, Charlotte, 1876-

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Minis, Jacob Florance, d. 1936.

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Minis, Abraham, fl. 1858-1884.

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