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Ellsworth Family Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MC 1162
Scope and Content Note The material in the first accession (Boxes 1-14) was largely collected and saved by Sarah Van Patten Ellsworth and her daughter Bessie Graham Ellsworth. Many of the pictures and scrapbooks were used as exhibit material when the Ellsworth house, "Wildwood," was opened as a private museum in 1963. The Ellsworth family papers include correspondence, journals (including one kept by Sarah Van Patten Ellsworth in 1865-1866), scrapbooks, albums (including an autograph album of visitors...
Dates: 1858-1979

Kirby Family Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MC 1030
Scope and Contents The collection consists primarily of materials related to Leonidas Kirby and his grandson, Dr. Henry Vance Kirby. It includes materials concerning four generations of the Kirby family. Materials include correspondence, ledgers, and other papers relating to Leonidas Kirby and his wife Rhoda. Fewer materials relate to the lives of their sons, including pharmaceutical laboratory notebooks belonging to Leander. A majority of materials, including correspondence, financial documents, and patient...
Dates: 1871-1993

Cazort Family Memoirs

 Collection
Identifier: MC 1669
Scope and Content Note

The memoir written by May McClerkin pertains to the Cazort family of Johnson County, Arkansas, who ran a successful business and farming operation near Lamar and Clarksville near the railroad after the Civil War. The memoir by Dr. Cazort pertains to his childhood in Johnson County.

The collection is photocopied and organized into three folders.

Dates: ca. 1880-1986

Hawn-Knight Family Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MC 756
Scope and Content Note The papers in this collection have been divided into four series. Papers pertaining to Dr. Monroe Knight have been arranged in series one and consist of family correspondence and professional records. Series two contains papers pertaining to Alfred and Daisy Hawn. These papers include personal correspondence between husband, wife, friends, and relatives; poetry and essays written or collected by the Hawns; professional records relating to the operation of the ...
Dates: 1874-1956

Stevenson/Boyce Family Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MC 1354
Scope and Content Note The materials in the collection cover three generations of the Boyce family, as well as the materials of Eugene Edward (E.E.) Stevenson. Nina Boyce Stevenson collected Boyce family records while doing genealogical research, including the medical ledgers of her grandfather, William Thomas (W.T.) Boyce. Other materials relate to her husband E.E. Stevenson's research on the history of Sevier County and his work as a teacher and a coach at Horatio (Sevier County) High School in the...
Dates: 1866-1996

Myrtle McCormick Parks Family Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MC 723
Scope and Content Note Papers and photographs of the McCormick and Parks families of Prairie Grove. The three volumes include a United States Army ledger with incomplete entries recorded by Dr. McCormick's father, James W. McCormick (1833-1886). In the back pages of his ledger, the captured Confederate soldier documented his journey to a Union prisoner of war camp, which was possibly located in Grafton, West Virginia. Private McCormick of Company B, 35th Battalion, Virginia Calvary, was accompanied by...
Dates: 1865-1945

Swift Family Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MC 1451
Scope and Content Note The papers consist of photographs, photograph albums, a scrapbook, correspondence, professional and financial records, genealogical records, and recorded interviews. The material was created or collected by Dr. Charles Eugene Swift of Goshen and Elkins, Arkansas, and by members of his immediate family, especially his son Joseph Maxwell Swift, and by other descendants. The papers include photographs of individuals (ca. 1870-1977), their homes, schools, and activities. Of special...
Dates: 1876-1976