MAN. Manuscript Collections

Abstract The papers in the John McHenry Family Papers, spans 183 years, from 1764 to 1947. The materials consist of two letters from Dr. James McHenry (1753-1816), one to General Washington and the other to William Tilghman; numerous letters from Margaret Caldwell, sister-in-law of Mrs. James McHenry (also Margaret Caldwell); one real estate book of James Howard McHenry (1820-1888); and business records of John McHenry (c.1865-1939), regarding family property and Mercantile Trust Co. affairs. The...

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John McPherson Brien manuscript collection consists of letters from Baltimore merchant Robert Gilmor (1774-1848) to John McPherson Brien (1807-1849), owner of Antietam Iron Works and Catoctin Furnace & Iron Works.

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This collection contains correspondence from John Stratton Gilman to his brother Eliphalet Gilman. The letters discuss family matters as well as their business in the iron industry.

Abstract Manuscript collection of John Thompson Ford, owner and manager of Ford's Theatre in Washington at the time of President Abraham Lincoln’s assassination. Includes correspondence of John T. Ford, Edwin Stanton, Henry Winter Davis, and Junius and Edwin Booth relating to the Lincoln assassination, Ford’s theater, and John T. Ford’s theatrical ventures. There are also notes and recollections Ford made relating to the assassination and subsequent trials. Newspaper clippings found in the collection...

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This collection primarily contains the correspondence of John Thomson Mason, Jr. (1815-1873), a lawyer and congressman from Hagerstown, Maryland. Topics of interest in the letters include law, medicine, tobacco and flour merchandising, and slavery.

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This collection contains the law school notes and incoming correspondence of Baltimore attorney, John Upshur Dennis (1846-1916). Letters discuss legal cases, leisurely activities, and news of family members in Richmond, Virginia and Somerset County, Maryland. Also included in the collection are materials such as business papers and incoming correspondence of his father, George Robertson Dennis (1822-1882), a United States Senator.

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The Johnson family papers span the years 1726-1955, covering five generations of the family centered around the Rockland estate, near where Falls Road and the Jones Falls expressway now meet. Some of the main subjects in this collection include the Falls Road Turnpike Company, Fells Point properties, and the daily operations of the Rockland mill and farm from the 18th to the 20th centuries.

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This collection contains Legal documents, land grants, court cases, and genealogy records belonging to the Johnston and Donaldson families of York County, Pensylvannia and Baltimore County, Maryland, 1767-1891.

Abstract The Jonathan K. Voshell papers contains letters concerning the States Roads Commisson Investigation of 1929. Materials include reports of the committee, newspaper clippings regarding the scandal, information on the investigation, and materials on various aspects of the State's roads. The collection also contains a 1929 scrapbook of campaign materials and newspaper clippings of building of general hospital campaign, of which Voshell was the campaign chairman. Also included is the minute book...

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This collection contains the journals kept by Judge Thomas Jones of Patapsco Neck and "Walnut Grove", Anne Arundel County, Maryland, 1779-1812.