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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.

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Gift 1963

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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, Duke University Library, Durham, N.C.

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.