Inventory of the Peter Hagner Papers, 1730-1940

Collection Number 3117


Manuscripts Department, University Library of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Collection Information
Descriptive Summary
Administrative Information
Online Catalog Headings
Biographical Note
Collection Overview
Contact Information:
Manuscripts Department
CB#3926, Wilson Library
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Chapel Hill, NC 27514-8890
Phone: 919/962-1345
Fax: 919/962-3594
Email: mss@email.unc.edu
URL: http://www.lib.unc.edu/mss/
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Descriptive Summary

Repository
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection.
Creator
Hagner, Peter, 1772-1850.
Title
Peter Hagner Papers, 1730-1940.
Call Number
3117
Language of Materials
Materials in English
Extent
About 3,600 items
Abstract
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.


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Administrative Information

Acquisitions Information
Gift 1955
Processing Information
Processed by: SHC Staff
Encoded by: Noah Huffman, December 2007
Additional Descriptive Resources
A more complete finding aid for this collection is available at the Southern Historical Collection.
Preferred Citation
[Identification of item], in the Peter Hagner Papers, #3117, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Copyright Notice
Copyright is retained by the authors of items in these papers, or their descendants, as stipulated by United States copyright law.
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Online Catalog Headings

These and related materials may be found under the following headings in online catalogs.

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.
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Biographical Note

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.

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Collection Overview

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.