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Senator James Buchanan is interested in learning more about "the early history of my father," James Buchanan, Sr., and writes Robert Lamberton to ask for help. "Your father is the only gentleman I know who can furnish me this information," as Buchanan explains. Transcript included.
Location: MC 1998.10, B1, F22
Subject: Genealogy and Family History
Format: Letters/Correspondence
Time Period: 1820-1839
Charles Collins records his thoughts and activities from his time at Emory and Henry College in Emory, Virginia, to his years as president of Dickinson College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania, and then as the head of State Female College in Memphis, Tennessee. The entries from the 1860s refer to the...
Location: MC 2003.6, B1, F6
Subject: Dickinson College Administration, Education, Genealogy and Family History, Personal and Family Life, Politics and Government, Religion and Spirituality
Format: Diaries and Journals
Senator James Buchanan writes a brief letter to Samuel Hood acknowledging the receipt of Hood's book, the Friendly Sons of St. Patrick. Buchanan states that the book "has a peculiar interest for [him]; as [he is] the son of a native of the Emerald Isle who emigrated to this country......
Location: MC 1998.10, B2, F8
Subject: Genealogy and Family History, Literary Pursuits, Personal and Family Life
Format: Letters/Correspondence
Time Period: 1840-1859
Lily Macalester writes this biographical sketch of President James Buchanan in 1859. Macalester is friends with First Lady Harriet Lane, Buchanan's niece. Transcript included.
Location: I-BeachW-2001-1
Subject: Genealogy and Family History, Personal and Family Life, Politics and Government
Format: Essays and Dissertations
Time Period: 1840-1859
Samuel Barlow writes to George Ticknor Curtis about Curtis' James Buchanan manuscript that contains material on Buchanan's engagement to Miss Anna Coleman. Barlow argues that Curtis "should not print any considerable portion of what you have written, on the subject of his engagement to Miss...
Location: I-Original-1881-1
Subject: Genealogy and Family History, Literary Pursuits, Personal and Family Life, Politics and Government
Format: Letters/Correspondence
Time Period: 1880-1899
Sarah Woods Parkinson publishes this short profile on Dr. Charles Nisbet in 1908.
Location: DC P N723P
Subject: Dickinson College History, Education, Genealogy and Family History
Format: Books and Pamphlets
Time Period: 1900-1919
Dickinson College trustee Edward W. Biddle writes to Cassandra Lee Arnold regarding Horace Carpenter's portrait of Charles Nisbet. Biddle asks that she go through her family papers and "send them to 'Old Dickinson' to preserved with its collection of historical and personal data."
Location: I-Original-1929-1
Subject: Dickinson College Administration, Dickinson College Events, Genealogy and Family History
Format: Letters/Correspondence
Time Period: 1920-1939
Cassandra Lee Arnold writes to Dickinson College trustee Edward W. Biddle regarding Horace Carpenter's portrait of Charles Nisbet. Arnold thanks Biddle for the photograph of it that he sent her and promises "I will certainly go over all of the old letters in my return to the Farm this Summer."...
Location: I-Original-1929-1
Subject: Dickinson College Administration, Genealogy and Family History, Visual and Performing Arts
Format: Letters/Correspondence
Time Period: 1920-1939
Zatae Longsdorff Straw (Class of 1887) writes to Mr. and Mrs. Howard W. Selby, accepting an invitation and explaining her (and her family's) connections to Dickinson College. Howard Selby was a member of Dickinson's class of 1913 and his wife, Ethel Wagg Selby, was a member of the class of 1915...
Location: I-Original-1951-1
Subject: Dickinson College Alumni Affairs, Genealogy and Family History, Personal and Family Life
Format: Letters/Correspondence
Time Period: 1940-1959
Ralph Wallace White's biography of Dr. Charles Nisbet.
Location: DC 1929 W587c
Subject: Dickinson College History, Genealogy and Family History, Personal and Family Life
Format: Books and Pamphlets
Time Period: 1960-1979
Lena Dickinson Outlaw provides information on the Dickinson family history in Dickinson Genealogy: Circa 750 to 1977 .
Location: DC T D553o
Subject: Genealogy and Family History
Format: Books and Pamphlets
Time Period: 1960-1979
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Location: DC 1929 W587 Bk. 1
Subject: Genealogy and Family History, Personal and Family Life
Format: Books and Pamphlets
Time Period: 1980-1999
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Location: DC 1929 W587 Bk. 2
Subject: Genealogy and Family History, Personal and Family Life
Format: Books and Pamphlets
Time Period: 1980-1999
Ralph Wallace White provides 21 charts that trace the genealogy of Charles Nisbet's descendants.
Location: DC 1929 W587g
Subject: Genealogy and Family History
Format: Books and Pamphlets
Time Period: 1980-1999
In this letter to his Uncle Allen Tanner, Robert Tanner describes his genealogical research and reconnection with distant family members. Transcript included.
Location: MC 2013.3, B1, F82
Subject: Genealogy and Family History, Personal and Family Life
Format: Letters/Correspondence
Time Period: 1980-1999
