Papers of Horner and the Horner family [manuscript] 1820-1892 (1920).

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Papers of Horner and the Horner family [manuscript] 1820-1892 (1920).

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Horner's life is documented through his diaries, correspondence, financial and official papers. The collection begins with schoolboy notes from Warrenton Academy, Fauquier County, and medical notebooks from studies at the University of Pennsylvania. In journals from his career as ship surgeon and eventually fleet surgeon he gives detailed accounts of voyages and ports visited, particularly in South America and the Caribbean, and supplements them with amateur sketches and maps. Of great interest are his medical reports as surgeon to the East Gulf Blockading Squadron including requisitions, receipts and sick reports. Among his naval papers are notes for an article on an 1862 yellow fever epidemic, reports as surgeon in the Brooklyn Navy Yard, and correspondence regarding his book Medical topography of Brazil and Uruguay and regarding the selection of naval physicians by the Naval Board of Medical Examiners. Financial accounts, journals and correspondence with family, friends and farm tenants in his personal papers give an excellent account of life in Philadelphia and the family farm in Warrenton, Fauqier Co. where he eventually retired. Of great interest are a catalog of his library, descriptions of the building of a Catholic Church in Warrenton, and of a lynching in 1880, and duplicate minutes of the Fauquier County Historical Society, 1915-20.

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