Collection of papers relating to the Huger family accounts of the attempted rescue of Lafayette from Olmütz, and articles describing Lafayette's visit to Charleston, S.C., in March, 1825, 1795-1927 / compiled by Alfred Huger.

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Collection of papers relating to the Huger family accounts of the attempted rescue of Lafayette from Olmütz, and articles describing Lafayette's visit to Charleston, S.C., in March, 1825, 1795-1927 / compiled by Alfred Huger.

Includes typewritten letters, copies of letters and newspaper articles, photostat copies of manuscripts, and a reproduction of a portrait of Virginia Lafayette. Seven of the letters are from Alfred Huger to Brand Whitlock.

30 items (in case) ; 29 cm.

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SNAC Resource ID: 7353618

Lafayette College

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Lafayette, Marie Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert Du Motier, marquis de, 1757-1834

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Marie Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert du Motier, marquis de Lafayette was born at Chavaniac, Auvergne, in 1757, to an old, illustrious family of the provincial and military nobility. He lost both his parents early: his father was killed by the British at the Battle of Minden when Lafayette was two years old (1759), and when he was thirteen and attending the prestigious Collège de Plessis in Paris both his mother and grandfather died (1770). The latter's death left Lafayette with a si...

Huger, Alfred, 1876-

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Whitlock, Brand, 1869-1934

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U.S. minister to Belgium, 1914-1920. From the description of Letters from schoolchildren of Ghent, Belgium, 1915 March. (University of Toledo). WorldCat record id: 14084889 Toledo mayor, lawyer, author, and diplomat. From the description of Letter, 1916 April 11, Brussels, to Alexander L. Smith, Toledo, Ohio. (University of Toledo). WorldCat record id: 13994096 Lawyer, author, mayor of Toledo, ambassador to Belgium. From the description of Le...

Huger, Francis Kinloch, 1773-1855

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Francis Kinloch Huger was born in Charleston, South Carolina, in September, 1773, and died there in 1855. At the age of eight, he was sent to study in England, remaining abroad until he had finished his education and medical studies. He continued his medical studies at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia and received his M.D. He returned to South Carolina and became a planter in Santee rather than practicing medicine. He served in the War of 1812 and after that served in the South Car...

Huger family.

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