Papers of the Meikleham family, 1793-1913, (bulk 1838-1855).

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Papers of the Meikleham family, 1793-1913, (bulk 1838-1855).

Include letters, 1838-1846, from David Scott Meikleham to Nicholas Phillip Trist concerning family news, social activities, illness, national politics, practice of medicine in New York City, personal finances and debt suits, and travel to Havanna, Cuba, Washington, D.C., Philadelphia, Pa., Scotland and England. Letters, 1841-1855, to Septimia Anne Cary Randolph Meikleham, some from her sons, William Moreland Meikleham and Thomas Mann Randolph Meikleham, concerning family news and illnesses, social activities, and travel to Boston, Mass., and New York City. Also include letters, 1793-1913, of Meikleham family members in America and Scotland; and letter, 1842, of J.A. Smith to David Scott Meikleham concerning the wreck of a slave ship at Havanna, Cuba. Also include genealogical notes and drafts of five children's stories by a daughter of Septimia Anne Cary Randolph Meikleham.

75 (ca.) items.

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SNAC Resource ID: 7337169

University of Virginia. Library

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Meikleham, William Moreland, 1839-1889,

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Meikleham, Thomas Mann Randolph, 1840-1922.

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Meikleham, Septimia Randolph, 1814-1887

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Granddaughter of Thomas Jefferson and resident of Albemarle County, Va. From the description of Randolph-Meikleham family papers [manuscript], 1792-1882. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 647874530 Granddaughter of Thomas Jefferson. From the description of Letters to William E. Robinson [manuscript], 1882-1886. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 647810915 ...

Smith, J. Alfred (James Alfred)

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The Rev. Dr. James Alfred Smith, Sr. pastured to African-American Baptist churches in Missouri and California from 1960-2009. He was born in 1931 in Kansas City, and over a period of twenty years, he earned four college degrees, the last, a Doctor of Ministry (1975). In 1970 Smith became pastor of Allen Temple Baptist Church (ATBC), an African-American church with a high percentage of Latino members, located in Oakland, California. He relinquished his position of pastor of the ATBC ...

Meikleham, David Scott, 1804-1849

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Meikleham family.

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Represented are Septimia Anne Cary Randolph Meikleham (1814-1887), granddaughter of Thomas Jefferson; her husband, David Scott Meikleham (1804-1849), a physician from Glasgow, Scotland; and their sons, William Moreland Meikleham (1839-1889) and Thomas Mann Randolph Meikleham (1840-1922). From the description of Papers of the Meikleham family, 1793-1913, (bulk 1838-1855). (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 32135431 ...

Trist, Nicholas Philip, 1800-1874

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U. S. diplomat; grandson-in-law of Thomas Jeferson. From the description of N. P. Trist letter to Henry Carey [manuscript] 1869 Apr. 2. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 647946227 Nicholas Philip Trist attended West Point; was a Louisiana planter, 1821-1824; U.S. State Department clerk, 1828-1834; consul to Havana, Cuba, 1834-1840; State Department chief clerk, 1845-1847; and chief negotiator of the treaty ending the Mexican War, 1847. He was also a lawyer and pa...