Album, 1835-1857.

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Album, 1835-1857.

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Autograph album, 1835-1837, 1850, and 1857, complied by Alfred B. Connell and other members of the extended Connell family and dedicated to his cousin, Louisa A[deline] Muldrow, (1809-1868), Darlington, S.C., to console her in her grief on the death of her child while living far from her family in S.C. Original poems of condolence lament the family's separation from Louisa, in florid and often morbid terms; poems contributed by her mother, [Sarah] Ann Cannon; sisters Eliza Jane Cannon, Susan Cannon, and Amelia M. Howard; and cousins Alfred, Ellen, Mary Connell, Mary Ellison Smith and Martha A. Moye. This autograph album represents a genre popular during the middle 19th century. Also called a forget-me-not album or memory book, these blank books often included engravings or lithographs. It was designed so that family members, friends, and acquaintances could inscribe the blank pages with verses, prose, or drawings dedicated to the book's owner. John C. Riker (d. ca. 1859), the creator of this binding, was a New York publisher, bookbinder and bookseller active in New York from 1827 to 1859, and one of the more prolific 19th-century album producers.

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Connell family.

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Connell, Alfred B.

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Cannon family.

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Cannon, Sarah Ann.

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Muldrow, Louisa Adeline, 1809-1868.

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Daughter of William H. Cannon and Sarah Ann McTyer; wife of Simon Connell Muldrow (1792-1853), lawyer in Darlington, S.C., 1820 graduate of Princeton, and junior partner with Gov. Stephen D. Miller in law firm of Miller and Muldrow; Louisa marrried Simon in Darlington, S.C., in 1826; this union produced at least 6 children; they later moved to Claiborne, Alabama, and then to the Counties of Lowndes and Oktibbeha in Mississippi; Louisa Muldrow outlived her husband and later married Isaac N. Davis...

Riker, John C.

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Bookbinder, bookseller, publisher in Manhattan. From the description of Papers, 1836-1888, 1836-1865 (bulk) (New York State Historical Documents). WorldCat record id: 155477815 ...