Mary Garfield Stanley-Brown papers, 1881-1967.

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Mary Garfield Stanley-Brown papers, 1881-1967.

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Consists of correspondence between Mary Stanley-Brown and her daughter, Ruth Stanley-Brown Feis and other Garfield, Stanley-Brown, and Feis family correspondence, including that between Helen Newell and James Rudolph Garfield during their courtship and first year of marriage. Other family correspondents include Joseph Stanley-Brown, Rudolph Stanley-Brown, Margaret Stanley-Brown, and Abram Garfield. The collection also includes manuscripts, verses, plays, stories, memoirs, diaries, lectures, scrapbooks, illustrations, and notebooks of Mary Garfield Stanley-Brown and other family members; genealogical data for the Ballou, Rudolph, Garfield, and Stanley-Brown families; and notes, drafts, and correspondence relating to Ruth Stanley-Brown Feis' children's book, Mollie Garfield in the White House, published in 1962. Also of interest are the travel observations and lectures of Joseph Stanley-Brown, who was widely travelled in the American West, having accompanied John Wesley Powell and the U.S. Geological Survey on several trips. Several family members produced stories, verses, plays, illustrations, and memoirs, which are included. Abram and Rae (Sara) Garfield's illustrated manuscript "Two Portage County Legends" and Joseph Rudolph's memoir of his Civil War service are included.

6.8 linear ft.

Western Reserve Historical Society, Research Library

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Western Reserve Historical Society, Research Library

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Stanley-Brown, Mary Garfield, 1867-1947

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Garfield family.

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Garfield, Abram, 1872-

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Stanley-Brown, Joseph, 1858-1941

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Secretary to James Garfield who married the president's daughter, Mollie, in 1888. He also served as stenographer to Maj. John W. Powell on a geologic survey of the Rocky Mountains, and as a member of the Bering Sea Arbitration Commission. From the description of Papers, 1874-ca. 1930. (Rhinelander District Library). WorldCat record id: 17383238 Presidential secretary, civil servant, and banker. From the description of Joseph Stanley-Brown papers, 1730-1941 (bulk...

Garfield, Sara Williams.

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Rudolph, Joseph.

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Stanley-Brown, Margaret.

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Garfield, Eliza Ballou, 1808-1888

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Stanley-Brown family.

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James A. Garfield Home (Mentor, Ohio)

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Garfield, James A. (James Abram), 1831-1881

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Feis, Ruth Stanley-Brown, 1892-1981

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Garfield, Harry Augustus, 1863-1942

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Feis, Herbert, 1893-1972

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Born in 1893, Herbert Feis was a distinguished author and historian, whose work focused on American foreign policy and international economic affairs. Early in his career, Feis worked as Economic Advisor for International Affairs at the State Department under the Hoover and Roosevelt administrations. His thirteen published books include "The Road to Pearl Harbor" (1950), "Europe, the World's Banker, 1870-1914" (1964), "From Trust to Terror: The Onset of the Cold War" (1970), and the Pulitzer Pri...

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