Inventory of the Ella Noland MacKenzie Papers, 1841-1886

Collection Number 3667


Manuscripts Department, University Library of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Collection Information
Descriptive Summary
Administrative Information
Online Catalog Headings
Collection Overview
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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
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Descriptive Summary

Repository
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection.
Creator
MacKenzie, Ella Noland.
Title
Ella Noland MacKenzie Papers, 1841-1886.
Call Number
3667
Language of Materials
Materials in English
Extent
About 450 items (0.5 linear feet).
Abstract
Family and personal correspondence of Ella (Noland) MacKenzie, daughter of Lloyd and Elizabeth Noland of Glen Ora, near Leesburg, Va., while she was in school in Virginia and Baltimore, Md.; visiting her aunt, Sara (Hollingsworth) Gibson, wife of Dr. William Gibson (1877-1868), in Philadelphia, Pa.; and after her marriage in 1852 to John Carrerre MacKenzie (died 1866), a Baltimore physician. Included are letters from the Nolands and other relatives in Virginia and from members of the MacKenzie family and friends in Baltimore, pertaining chiefly to plantation life, social conditions, and women's activities. Incidents of particular note include a slave uprising, 1856, near Glen Ora; the departure in 1864 of one branch of the family for Europe in voluntary or involuntary exile; and the arrest of John C. MacKenzie as a Confederate sympathizer. Postwar items are scattered, with only slight information on John and Ella's son, Dr. John Noland MacKenzie (1853-1925), a noted throat specialist.


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Administrative Information

Acquisitions Information
Purchase 1964
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 Ella Noland MacKenzie Papers, #3667, 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.

Baltimore (Md.)--Social life and customs.
Family--United States--Social life and customs.
Gibson family.
Gibson, William, 1788-1868.
Glen Ora (Loudon County, Va.)
Leesburg (Va.)--Social life and customs--19th century.
Mackenzie family.
MacKenzie, Ella Noland.
MacKenzie, John Carrerre, d. 1866.
MacKenzie, John Noland, 1853-1925.
Maryland--History--Civil War, 1861-1865.
Noland family.
Philadelphia (Pa.)--Social life and customs.
Physicians--Maryland--History--19th century.
Plantation life--Virginia--History--19th century.
Slave insurrections--Virginia.
Women--Education--Maryland--History--19th century.
Women--Education--Virginia--History--19th century.
Women--Southern States--Social life and customs.
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Collection Overview

Family and personal correspondence of Ella (Noland) MacKenzie, daughter of Lloyd and Elizabeth Noland of Glen Ora, near Leesburg, Va., while she was in school in Virginia and Baltimore, Md.; visiting her aunt, Sara (Hollingsworth) Gibson, wife of Dr. William Gibson (1877-1868), in Philadelphia, Pa.; and after her marriage in 1852 to John Carrerre MacKenzie (died 1866), a Baltimore physician. Included are letters from the Nolands and other relatives in Virginia and from members of the MacKenzie family and friends in Baltimore, pertaining chiefly to plantation life, social conditions, and women's activities. Incidents of particular note include a slave uprising, 1856, near Glen Ora; the departure in 1864 of one branch of the family for Europe in voluntary or involuntary exile; and the arrest of John C. MacKenzie as a Confederate sympathizer. Postwar items are scattered, with only slight information on John and Ella's son, Dr. John Noland MacKenzie (1853-1925), a noted throat specialist.