Crittenden family papers, 1837-1907, bulk 1849-1889.

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Crittenden family papers, 1837-1907, bulk 1849-1889.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/719608124

The Crittenden family papers contain the letters of a Kentucky family living on the California and Nevada frontiers. The material centers on the family of Alexander Parker Crittenden and his wife Clara Churchill Jones, and includes letters from their parents, siblings, and children. The collection also contains diaries, documents and financial records, and family photographs (daguerreotypes, ambrotypes, tintypes, cabinet cards, cartes-de-visite, and other paper prints). The collection documents the murder of Alexander Parker Crittenden as well as family members who fought on the Confederate side of the Civil War and who participated in mining and prospecting in the West.

4 linear feet (ca. 1300 items)

William L. Clements Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 8087001

William L. Clements Library

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There are 26 Entities related to this resource.

Churchill, Marlborough, d. 1889.

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Crittenden, James Love, 1841-1915.

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Crittenden, Howard Joseph, 1844-1871.

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Craighill, Rebecca Churchill Jones, 1833-1899.

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Crittenden, Clara Churchill Jones, 1820-1881.

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Jones, Alexander, 1822-1884.

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Sanchez, Ramon Bernardo, 1824-1893.

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Van Wyck, Clara, 1865-1901.

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Jones, Alexander, 1796-1874.

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Crittenden, Parker, 1849-1923.

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Confederate States of America. Army. Maryland Cavalry Battalion, 1st

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Jones, Ann Northey Churchill, 1798-1854.

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Crittenden, Alexander Parker, 1816-1870

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Biographical/Historical note Crittenden was born in Lexington, KY and was assassinated on the ferry between Oakland and San Francisco in 1870. He was married with children. He was a military cadet at West Point Military Academy from 07/01/1832-07/01/1836. He joined the army as a lieutenant and resigned 09/30/1836. He worked as an assistant engineer for the railroads in Baltimore, MD, York, PA, Charleston, SC, and Augusta, SC. He was a lawyer ...

Robinson, Mary Crittenden.

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Van Wyck, Sidney M., b. 1868.

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Confederate States of America. Signal Corps

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Van Wyck, Sidney McMecken, 1830-1887.

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Joliffe, Mary Farquhar Jones, 1826-1892.

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Crittenden, Thomas Turpin, 1857-1933.

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Sanchez, Laura Crittenden, 1839-1919.

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Van Wyck, Nannie Crittenden, 1843-1916.

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Alexander Parker Crittenden (1816-1870), hereafter A.P.C., was the son of the prominent Kentucky lawyer, Thomas Turpin Crittenden. He graduated from West Point in 1836 and in 1838, married Clara Churchill Jones Crittenden (1820-1881); they had fourteen children in twenty years, only eight of whom lived to adulthood. Clara was the daughter of Reverend Alexander Jones, Jr., and Ann Northey Churchill Jones, of Bardstown, Kentucky. The young couple first lived in Kentucky but moved to T...

Crittenden, Churchill, 1840-

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Pratt, Caroline Campbell Crittenden, 1855-1923.

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Fair, Laura Hunt, 1837-1919.

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Robinson, Tod, 1812-1870.

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Hanover College

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