Maggie Cameron diaries, 1857-1862.

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Maggie Cameron diaries, 1857-1862.

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Diaries kept by Margaret Cameron, daughter of Simon Cameron, during her travels to the British Isles and Western Europe in 1857 (May 22-Sept. 28) and to Russia in 1862 (May 5-July 23). During the Russian trip, she accompanied her father who had been named ambassador to that country.

2 v. (70 p.) ; 21 cm. or smaller.

Millersville University Library, McNairy Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 7631607

Millersville University Library, McNairy Library

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Cameron, Simon, 1799-1889

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Simon Cameron was born in Maytown, Pennsylvania in 1799, to Charles Cameron (d. January 16, 1814) and his wife Martha McLaughlin (d. abt. November 10, 1830). Cameron was the third of five sons; and had three younger sisters. One story claimed that Cameron was orphaned at nine, and later apprenticed to a printer, Andrew Kennedy, editor of the Northumberland Gazette before entering the field of journalism. If Cameron were apprenticed to Kennedy at age nine (~1808) for a then-standard period of ...

Haldeman, Margaret Cameron, 1836-1915.

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Margaret Cameron was the daughter of Senator Simon Cameron of Harrisburg, Pa. She was born on Sept. 20, 1836, the third of five children born to Sen. Cameron and his wife, Margaret Brua. Maggie Cameron married Harrisburg newspaper editor and U.S. Representative Richard J. Haldeman in 1871. The couple had three children. She died on Dec. 17, 1915 and is interred in Harrisburg Cemetery. From the description of Maggie Cameron diaries, 1857-1862. (Millersville University Library). WorldC...