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[Identification of item], in the Frederick Peabody Leavenworth Papers, #3663, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Acquisitions Information

Received from Mrs. Marshall B. Wyatt, 1963.

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A copy of the original finding aid for this collection is filed in folder 1a.

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• Family--Virginia--Social life and customs.
• Finance, Personal--Virginia--History--19th century.
• Leavenworth, Abner Johnson, 1803-1869.
• Leavenworth, Eliza C. Lawrence.
• Leavenworth, Frederick Peabody, b. 1833.
• Leavenworth, Hester, b. 1865.
• Louisiana--Social life and customs.
• Peabody, Mary Ann.
• Property--Virginia--History.
• Railroad engineers--Virginia--History--19th century.
• Surveying--Southern States--History--19th century.
• Virginia--Social life and customs.

• Abner Johnson Leavenworth Papers, Swem Library, College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, Va.
• Abner Johnson Leavenworth Papers, Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library, Duke University, Durham, N.C.

Frederick Peabody Leavenworth (born 1833) was a railroad engineer of Petersburg, Va., and Shreveport, La. He was the son of Abner Johnson Leavenworth (1803-1869), a Presbyterian clergyman and teacher, and president of Leavenworth Female College in Petersburg, Va., and Elizabeth Manning Peabody Leavenworth (died 1841) of Salem, Mass.

Frederick Peabody Leavenworth married first Caroline Porter (died 1863) in 1858, and later Eliza C. Lawrence in 1864. Their children were Hester (born 1865), Eliza Helen (1868-1869), Mary Peabody (born 1870), and Frederick Peabody Leavenworth Jr.

The collection includes papers of Frederick Peabody Leavenworth, including family correspondence and personal business papers, chiefly 1873-1907, concerning Leavenworth's personal and real property, credit, and insurance, as well as his real estate and surveying activities; a personal diary, 1911, at Petersburg, Va.; and engineering notes, 1874, concerning soundings in the Bayou region of Louisiana. Included is correspondence among members of the Leavenworth family: Frederick Peabody Leavenworth; his father, the Reverend Abner Johnson Leavenworth; his wife, Eliza Leavenworth; his daughter, Hester Leavenworth; and his aunt, Mary Ann Peabody of Petersburg, Va.