Papers, 1852-1915.

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Papers, 1852-1915.

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The Margaretta du Pont Coleman Papers primarily consist of family correspondence collected by Meta Coleman from the Louisville, Ky. branch of the du Pont family and includes letters written to her parents, husband, grandmother, uncle, aunts, siblings, and herself.

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Du Pont, Margaretta Lammot, 1807-1898

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Margaretta Elizabeth Lammot was a daughter of Daniel Lammot (1782-1877) and Susan Parham Beck Lammot (1786-1817) of Philadelphia. In 1824, she married Alfred Victor du Pont, a son of Eleuthère Irénée du Pont and Sophie Madeleine Dalmas du Pont. Alfred V. du Pont joined the family firm of E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company in 1818 and eventually became senior partner. He resigned from the firm in 1850. Alfred and Margaretta du Pont lived at Nemours on the family pro...

Coleman, Margaretta du Pont, 1862-1938

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Margaretta E. ("Meta") du Pont Coleman (1862-1938), the first child of Bidermann du Pont and Ellen Coleman du Pont, was born in Louisville, Ky. After the death of her mother in 1876, she briefly resided with her maternal grandmother in Wilmington, Del. and then attended boarding school in Philadelphia, Pa. from October 1878-May 1879. She returned to her father's home in Louisville, where she was responsible for running the household and had an active social life. Meta du Pont marrie...

Du Pont, Ellen Coleman, 1838-1876

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Du Pont, Bidermann, 1837-1923

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Coleman family.

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Du Pont family.

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Du Pont, T. Coleman (Thomas Coleman), 1863-1930

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In 1902 the control of the hundred year old Du Pont Company passed into the hands of three younger du Pont cousins, T. Coleman, Pierre S., and Alfred I.T. Coleman du Pont, who became president after the 1902 incorporation, had spent the previous two decades involved in the coal, iron, and street railway industries of Kentucky and Western Pennsylvania. His major investment was in The Johnson Company of Johnstown, Pa., and Lorain, Ohio, to which he introduced modern engineering principles and mana...

Coleman, R. Bannen (Robert Bannen), 1856-1898.

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Du Pont, Zara, 1869-1946

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Du Pont, Alfred Victor, 1833-1893

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