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Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], in the Peter Hagner Papers, #3117, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Acquisitions Information

Gift 1955

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• Annapolis (Md.)--Social life and customs.
• Calvert County (Md.)--Social life and customs.
• Family--Maryland--Social life and customs.
• Garnett, James M. (James Mercer), 1770-1843.
• Hagner family.
• Hagner, Peter, 1772-1850.
• James, Isabella Louisa Hagner, fl. 1901-1940.
• Nicholson family.
• Patronage, Political--United States--History--19th century.
• Presidents--Family--United States--History--20th century.
• Randall family.
• Roosevelt family.
• Roosevelt, Edith Kermit Carow, 1861-1948.
• Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919--family.
• Schools--Virginia--Essex County--History--19th century.
• United States--Economic policy--To 1933.
• United States. Dept. of the Treasury--Officials and employees--History--19th century.
• United States. War Dept.--Officials and employees--History.
• Washington (D.C.)--Social life and customs.
• Women--Education--Virginia--History--19th century.

Native of Pennsylvania, known as the "watchdog of the Treasury," Hagner was a clerk in the accounting office of the United States War Department, 1793-1817, and third auditor of the United States Treasury, 1817-1849.

The collection includes correspondence, chiefly from 1815, related to Hagner's personal life in Washington, D.C., and to his official positions. Official items include correspondence about government accounts, contracts, claims, and appointments. Other papers relate somewhat to personal business and social life but are chiefly family correspondence, including letters concerning the education of a daughter at the school of James Mercer Garnett (1770-1843) of Essex County, Va.; letters from members of the related Nicholson and Randall families of Annapolis, Md.; and letters from Hagner's children. Papers after 1850 are correspondence of the children, including a United States Army officer and residents of Washington, Annapolis, and Calvert County, Md., among other places. Also included, arranged separately, are the papers of Hagner's granddaughter, Isabella Louisa Hagner (Mrs. W. Norman) James, about 500 items, 1901-1940, consisting chiefly of personal letters from the family of president Theodore Roosevelt. Prior to her marriage, Isabella was social secretary to Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt while she was in the White House.