Heiskell, McCampbell, Wilkes, and Steel family materials collection, 1820-1979 [manuscript].

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Heiskell, McCampbell, Wilkes, and Steel family materials collection, 1820-1979 [manuscript].

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Correspondence, writings, diaries, and other items pertaining to Heiskell, McCampbell, Wilkes, and Steel family members. Heiskell family material consists chiefly of correspondence of Hu Brown, his wife Mary Ann Susan Brown, their daughter Susan Rice Brown (1835-1882), and Hu Brown's brother-in-law Frederick Steidinger Heiskell (1786-1882). Letters pertain to daily life, local politics, and business and religious concerns in the area near Knoxville, Tenn., chiefly 1830-1860. Most McCampbell family items are letters exchanged by William McCampbell and Susan Heiskell (1834-1917) before and after their marriage in 1858, including love letters. These letters discuss travel, health, and the daily routine at Fruit Hill, the Heiskell plantation near Knoxville. Wilkes family material includes letters concerning civilian life in 1864 in Tennessee and South Carolina, love letters from the 1880s, and letters from Susan Heiskell Wilkes about her art studies in New York City in 1908. Steel family items include letters about their work from Methodist ministers in Tennessee and elsewhere in the South, 1850s-1870s, and in Virginia, 1907-1931. There also are letters from Miriam Steel, Methodist missionary to Brazil, 1910-1948, and from Edward Marvin Steel, Jr., (1918- ) prisoner of war in Germany in World War II. Also included are various diary volumes and writings of Methodist ministers Ferdinand Laurence Steel (1813-1873) and Samuel Augustus Hankins Steel, of Edward Marvin Steel, Jr., and of Mary Eliza Julia Steel Ramsey (1852-1910?).

2,500 items (7.0 linear ft.).

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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SNAC Resource ID: 7158137

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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Heiskell, Frederick Steidinger, 1786-1882

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Born in 1786, Frederick Steidinger Heiskell was the son of Frederick and Catherine (Steidinger) Heiskell of Hagerstown, Maryland. He learned the printing trade in Virginia, and later became a printer in Tenn. He entered politics in Tenn. and was a state senator for 3 terms. A slaveowner, Heiskell was a staunch Unionist. He died in 1882 in Rogersville, Tenn. From the description of Frederick S. Heiskell Papers, 1789-1882 1832-1882. (East Tennessee State University). WorldCat record id...

Brown, Susan Rice, 1835-1882.

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Brown, Mary Ann Susan.

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Brown, Hubert C.

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Hubert C. Brown of Fairfield, Vermont, the son of Joseph and Aurelia Brown, and Laura Tupper of Bakersfield, Vermont, the daughter of Solon and Nancy A. Tupper, were married in Enosburgh November 24, 1863. By 1864, Laura was living in Lockport, Illinois and Hubert wrote in September of that year to a cousin that his wife was living in another state, and "I have heard that she will live with me if I'll come to Illinois." By 1865 however, they both were living in East Fairfield, Vermont and by 187...

Steel, Laurence, 1813-1873.

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Steel, Miriam.

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McCampbell, William E., 1827-1880

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Steel, Edward Marvin,

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Heiskell, McCampbell, Wilkes, and Steel families of Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, and Virginia. Members of these families included newspaper editors, lawyers, missionaries, Methodist ministers, teachers, an artist, a librarian, and a history professor. Heiskell family members lived on the Fruit Hill plantation near Knoxville, Tenn. Ferdinand Lawrence Steel (1813-1873) spent much of his life as a farmer and itinerant Methodist preacher, especiall...

Steel, S. A. (Samuel Augustus), 1849-

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Samuel Augustus Hawkins Steel, Methodist clergyman and author, was born in 1849 and died in 1934. Steel lived in Mississippi in his early years. After he became a Methodist minister, he wrote several books and at least two regular newspaper columns, "From the Pelican Pines" (1921-1925) and "Creole Gumbo" (for the Memphis COMMERCIAL APPEAL, 1929-1930). From the description of S.A. (Samuel Augustus) Steel papers, 1867-1989 (bulk 1867-1934). (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 173863082 ...

Ramsey, Mary Eliza Julia Steel, 1852-1910?

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Wilkes, Susan Heiskell.

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McCampbell, Susan Heiskell, 1834-1917.

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