Lemuel Parker Conner family papers, 1810-1953.

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Conner, Lemuel P. (Lemuel Parker), 1827-1891. Lemuel Parker Conner family papers, 1810-1953.

Lemuel Parker Conner family papers, 1810-1953.

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Family papers of Lemuel P. Conner (1827-1891) and Lemuel P. Conner, Jr. (1861-1943), of Natchez, Adams County, Miss., and Vidalia, Concordia Parish, La. Includes family, business, and plantation correspondence, financial records, legal documents, personal papers, manuscript volumes, printed items, and photographic materials. Items relate to the family's plantations in Adams County, Miss., Concordia Parish, La., and McClennan County, Tex; the Civil War, family, social and economic life; plantation operation and cotton culture; slavery and labor problems; and politics of the 19th- and 20th-centuries. The collection also includes programs and sacramental and membership records of the First Presbyterian Church in Natchez; the papers of Major Henry Chotard (1810-1818), aide to General Andrew Jackson at the Battle of New Orleans, and the father of Maria Chotard Conner; the Sessions Family (1846-1931), and the Levin R. Marshall Estate (1888-1889). Correspondence relates to plantation management; personal, social, and political happenings in Natchez, Miss.; Vidalia, Tensas, Bayou Goula, and New Orleans, La., and Waco, Tex. Also the Civil War; the education of the Conner children at Louisiana State University and Smith College; and postbellum plantation life and labor issues. Financial papers include correspondence of Washington Jackson and Co., a cotton brokerage in New Orleans (1853-1859) and the Mechanics and Traders Bank (1875-1876), and family receipts, invoices, promissory notes, merchandise orders, and checks. Manuscript volumes include records relating to plantations owned or managed by various members of the Conner family, sacramental and membership records of the Natchez First Presbyterian Church. Civil War papers include correspondence of Confederate civilians and military personnel; diary of Lemuel Conner (1862); letters of Confederate prisoners; testimonies of slaves involved in a proposed insurrection (1861); general orders and Surgeon General's Office materials; and Confederate imprints. Additional printed items include programs, government publications, Confederate imprints, political pamphlets and speeches, military orders, newspaper clippings, abolitionist newspapers, advertisements for Natchez businesses, and invitations. Maps show plantations in Concordia parish and the Lake St. John area and railroads, including the Mississippi Valley Railroad of Louisiana (ca. 1882); Railroad, Canal, Iron, and Coal map of Pennsylvania, &c. (1868); and a map of United States Military Railroads (1866). Photographic materials include cartes de visites of Lemuel P. Conner III as a baby with his nurse, LSU classmates of Lemuel P. Conner, Jr., (A.D. Lytle, photographer), John Wilkes Booth, and Civil war figures and veterans. Cabinet cards of Jefferson Davis and A. Sidney Johnston (1882) are also present. Picture-post cards show historic homes in Natchez and street scenes. Other photographs include family portraits, President Taft on his 1909 visit to Natchez, the grave markers of Winthrop Sargent, the first governor of the Mississippi Territory, of Seargent S. Prentiss, and other members of the Prentiss family; churches, schools, businesses, street and park scenes in and near Natchez, including the home where Mary Britton Conner was born; the Natchez police force; and the Phoenix fire department (1870); the Yazoo and Mississippi River Railroad; and recreational activities. Most photographs are identified and labeled. Nine glass plate negatives include images of unidentified people, houses, other buildings, and a map of the Mississippi River showing various major plantations near Natchez, Mississippi and Vidalia, Louisiana. Related materials found in this manuscript group include the Major Henry E. Chotard Papers (1810-1818), comprised of the business papers of the father of Maria Chotard Conner, the second wife of Farar B. Conner; the Sessions Family Papers (1846-1931), which include correspondence between Ann P. Sessions and her family, financial and legal records, which document her reliance upon Lemuel Conner, Jr., for legal guidance, and his activities as executor of her estate; and the Levin R. Marshall Papers (1888-1889) which include Marshall's legal correspondence with Lemuel P. Conner, Sr., as well as other legal, financial, and miscellaneous items.

5,592 items.47 v.

Louisiana State University, LSU Libraries