Inventory of the Frederick Peabody Leavenworth Papers, 1807-1911
Collection Number 3663
Manuscripts Department, University Library of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
- 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
- Leavenworth, Frederick Peabody, b. 1833.
- Title
- Frederick Peabody Leavenworth Papers, 1807-1911 (bulk 1873-1907).
- Call Number
- 3663
- Language of Materials
- Materials in English
- Extent
- 166 items (0.5 linear feet).
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Administrative Information
- 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 Frederick Peabody Leavenworth Papers, #3663, 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.
Online Catalog Headings
These and related materials may be found under the following headings in online catalogs.
- 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.
Related Material
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Abner Johnson Leavenworth Papers, Swem Library, College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, Va.
Abner Johnson Leavenworth Papers, Duke University Library, Durham, N.C.
Collection Overview
Papers of Leavenworth, railroad engineer of Petersburg, Va., and Shreveport, La., 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; and engineering notes, 1874, concerning soundings in the Bayou region of Louisiana. Included is correspondence among members of theLeavenworth family: Frederick Peabody Leavenworth; his father, the Reverend. Abner Johnson Leavenworth (1803-1869), Presbyterian clergyman and teacher, and president of Leavenworth Female College in Petersburg; his wife, Eliza Leavenworth; his daughter, Hester Leavenworth; and his aunt, Mary Ann Peabody of Petersburg.