Abstract

A collection of historical family letters, genealogical research, and family photographs from the Kendall and Greene families.

Scope and Contents This series collects other items related to the history of the Kendall and Greene families. Of particular interest is a collection of locks of hair, including a mixed sample from Amos Kendall and his first fiancée, Mary Lawrence. (Amos’s engagement to her was broken when he moved to Kentucky to take a teaching job; he ended up marrying Mary Woolfolk instead.) Other samples present include locks from Sarah Hamilton Garrard, Ms. Roberts’ maternal grandmother; and Mary Burton Hamilton, her...

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A collection of newspapers related to Amos Kendall, including copies of the 1840 Extra Globe that he contributed to, an 1873 Washington newspaper with a retrospective of his life, and some 20th-century newspaper clippings with articles about Kendall.

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Includes several drafts of an autobiographical sketch, a passport she used during an European trip in her 20s, and a school paper on Amos Kendall’s fellow politician Francis Preston Blair. Also included is some of Ms. Roberts’ correspondence, consisting mostly of letters to other family members with questions about family history and genealogical issues. Some correspondence written by Ms. Roberts’ daughter, Silvia Roberts Lowrey, is also present.

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The results of Ms. Roberts’ genealogical research, including lists of descendants, family trees and charts, and notes on prominent members. Besides the Kendall and Greene families, this research covers several other branches of Ms. Roberts’ family tree, including the Garrard, Burton, and Hamilton families (from her mother’s side), and the Dakin and Minot families, who married into the Kendall branch before Amos’s time.

Scope and Contents A collection of photographs related to the Kendall and Greene families. Includes many photos of Ms. Roberts’s father, Walter Woolfolk Greene; her brother, Walter Hamilton Greene; and several of her ancestors and more distant relatives, including Amos Kendall, Mary Ann Kendall Greene, and Joseph D. Greene. Some photographs of houses important to the family, in particular Joseph D. Greene’s birthplace in Delaware and a house built by Zebedee Kendall, are also present. Also includes...

Scope and Contents From the Series: This series collects other items related to the history of the Kendall and Greene families. Of particular interest is a collection of locks of hair, including a mixed sample from Amos Kendall and his first fiancée, Mary Lawrence. (Amos’s engagement to her was broken when he moved to Kentucky to take a teaching job; he ended up marrying Mary Woolfolk instead.) Other samples present include locks from Sarah Hamilton Garrard, Ms. Roberts’ maternal grandmother; and Mary Burton Hamilton, her...

Scope and Contents From the Series: This series collects other items related to the history of the Kendall and Greene families. Of particular interest is a collection of locks of hair, including a mixed sample from Amos Kendall and his first fiancée, Mary Lawrence. (Amos’s engagement to her was broken when he moved to Kentucky to take a teaching job; he ended up marrying Mary Woolfolk instead.) Other samples present include locks from Sarah Hamilton Garrard, Ms. Roberts’ maternal grandmother; and Mary Burton Hamilton, her...

Scope and Contents From the Series: This series collects other items related to the history of the Kendall and Greene families. Of particular interest is a collection of locks of hair, including a mixed sample from Amos Kendall and his first fiancée, Mary Lawrence. (Amos’s engagement to her was broken when he moved to Kentucky to take a teaching job; he ended up marrying Mary Woolfolk instead.) Other samples present include locks from Sarah Hamilton Garrard, Ms. Roberts’ maternal grandmother; and Mary Burton Hamilton, her...

Scope and Contents From the Series: This series collects other items related to the history of the Kendall and Greene families. Of particular interest is a collection of locks of hair, including a mixed sample from Amos Kendall and his first fiancée, Mary Lawrence. (Amos’s engagement to her was broken when he moved to Kentucky to take a teaching job; he ended up marrying Mary Woolfolk instead.) Other samples present include locks from Sarah Hamilton Garrard, Ms. Roberts’ maternal grandmother; and Mary Burton Hamilton, her...