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Box MSS197.2

 Container

Contains 32 Results:

William Woolfolk military record forms, 1977

 File — Box: MSS197.2, Folder: 5
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...
Dates: 1977

Extra Globe newspapers, 1840

 File — Box: MSS197.2, Folder: 6
Scope and Contents From the Series:

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.

Dates: 1840

Newspaper clippings on Amos Kendall, 1873 - 1961

 File — Box: MSS197.2, Folder: 7
Scope and Contents From the Series:

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.

Dates: 1873 - 1961

Newspaper obituary for Amos Kendall, 1869

 File — Box: MSS197.2, Folder: 8
Scope and Contents From the Series:

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.

Dates: 1869

Autobiography, 1979

 File — Box: MSS197.2, Folder: 9
Scope and Contents From the Series:

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.

Dates: 1979

Correspondence, 1945 - 1986

 File — Box: MSS197.2, Folder: 10
Scope and Contents From the Series:

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.

Dates: 1945 - 1986

Paper on Francis Preston Blair, 1954

 File — Box: MSS197.2, Folder: 11
Scope and Contents From the Series:

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.

Dates: 1954

Passport, 1923

 File — Box: MSS197.2, Folder: 12
Scope and Contents From the Series:

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.

Dates: 1923

Clippings on Amos Kendall, 1980

 File — Box: MSS197.2, Folder: 13
Scope and Contents From the Series:

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.

Dates: 1980

Clippings on Beverley family

 File — Box: MSS197.2, Folder: 14
Scope and Contents From the Series:

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.

Dates: 1811 - 1986