Macculloch-Miller family archive : manuscripts, 1778-1948 (bulk 1880s-1948).

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Macculloch-Miller family archive : manuscripts, 1778-1948 (bulk 1880s-1948).

Correspondence, documents, books, speeches, account books, poems, pamphlets, photographs, memorabilia, and other papers, of the Macculloch and Miller families, residents of Macculloch Hall (now the Macculloch Hall Historical Museum), Morristown, N.J. Also includes Henry Wise Miller's (1877-1955) letters from Guantánamo at the beginning of the Spanish-American War; Dorothea Miller Post's (1878-1947) papers reflecting cultural and civic activities, particularly the war effort in Morristown during World Wars I and II; correspondence of Louisa Martha Edwina Sanderson Macculloch (1785-1895); papers of Lindley Hoffman Miller (1834-1864), a young lawyer who saw the draft riots of 1863 in New York City and subsequently volunteered to lead African-American troops during the Civil War; and informal, unretouched photographs of Abraham Lincoln. Correspondents include Samuel Dayton, Oliver Wendell Holmes, W.T. Sherman, and Stephen Vail.

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Whig Party (U.S.)

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Miller, Katherine Wise, 1853-1940

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Miller, Henry Wise, 1877-1955

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Miller, J. W. (Jacob William), 1847-1918

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Keasbey, Anthony.

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Dayton, Samuel

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Post, Dorothea Miller, 1878-1947

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Vail, Stephen, 1780-1864

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Miller, Lindley Hoffman, 1834-1864

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