White, Dresser and Related Families papers

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White, Dresser and Related Families papers

1850-1980 [1888-1980]

https://illinois.as.atlas-sys.com/repositories/2/resources/745

Prominent Springfield, Illinois, families related by marriage. The Dresser Family descends from Rev. Charles Dresser, the minister who married Abraham and Mary Todd Lincoln, and also sold his home at 8th and Jackson Streets in Springfield to the Lincolns. The home is now maintained as an historic site. Rev. Dresser’s son, Dr. Thomas W. Dresser was one of the physicians who tended Mary Todd Lincoln in her final illness in 1882. Dr. Dresser’s daughter Katherine married Rev. John Chanler White, who was Episcopal bishop of Springfield from 1924 to 1947. Their children were Thomas Dresser White, United States Air Force Chief of Staff from 1957 to 1961, and Katherine White Conry. Related families include the Ulrich, Vredenburgh and Doremus families. Scrapbooks, family genealogies, news clippings, documents and memorial. The collection primarily concerns Rev. John Chanler White and his family. Genealogies of the Ulrich and Vredenburgh families are apart of the collection. A published memorial to Sarah Platt Haines Doremus; material on Jubilee College, Peoria, Illinois; and documents of Johann Luder are also included. Artifacts and a color slide were transferred out of the collection. The John Luder documents are in German. A related collection is the Dresser Family Papers.

0.4 Linear Feet (1 manuscript box and 1 oversize folder)

eng, Latn

Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library

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Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library

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Jubilee College

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Dresser family.

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Prominent Springfield, Illinois, family descended from Rev. Charles Dresser, the first Episcopal rector of St. Paul's parish in Springfield. The Dresser family immigrated to Springfield from Virginia in 1838. Rev. Dresser was the minister who married Abraham Lincoln and Mary Todd, and later sold his home on 8th and Jackson Streets in Springfield to the Lincolns. In 1855 Rev. Dresser became a faculty member at Jubilee College near Peoria, Illinois, where he taught for a f...

Doremus family.

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Conry, Katherine White, 1903-

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Luder, Johann.

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Vredenburg family.

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Doremus, Sarah Platt Haines, 1803-1877.

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White, John Chanler, 1867-1956

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Episcopal Church

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In 1982, the General Convention of the Church deleted the words "Protestant" and "in the United States of America" from the official title of the Church, making it the Episcopal Church. From the description of Records of the Protestant Episcopal Church of the United States of America, Domestic and Foreign Missionary Society, 1823-1975 (inclusive). (Yale University). WorldCat record id: 702152635 ...

White, Thomas D. (Thomas Dresser), 1901-1965

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Thomas Dresser White (b. Aug. 6, 1901, Walker, Minn.-d. Dec. 22, 1965), U.S. Air Force officer, received his commission in the infantry in 1920. He studied the Chinese language in China from 1927 to 1931, and served as assistant military attaché for air in Moscow and Rome from 1934 to 1937 and military attaché in Brazil from 1940 to 1942. During World War II he served as assistant chief of staff, then chief of staff, 3rd Air Force; assistant chief of staff for intelligence at Army Air Force HQ; ...

White family.

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