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Size | 50 items |
Abstract | The Michie Family Papers, 1843-1958, consist of letters, chiefly from Michie, Shaifer, and Briscoe family members; photographs of Michie and Flowers family members and a few newspaper clippings related to Frances Fenton Michie and her husband Robert Chalmers Todd. Family letters are scattered over decades and chiefly concern family news and genealogy. Of note are letters documenting movement of enslaved people to Virginia and attitudes toward women in 1843; gold-digging near Sacramento, Calif., in 1850; postwar plantation management and family resettlement in St. Joseph, La., in 1866; and parenting advice in 1915. |
Creator | Michie (Family : Vicksburg, Miss.) |
Curatorial Unit | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection. |
Language | English |
Encoded by: Laura Smith
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Back to TopThe Michie family lived in Vicksburg, Miss., at the turn of the twentieth century. Frances Fenton Michie Todd ("Fenton"), collected these materials, possibly as her extended family's historian. She was the daughter of David Michie and Mary Elizabeth Shaifer, and niece of William C. Michie. She lived in Vicksburg, Miss., until her marriage to Robert Chalmers Todd on 28 June 1911, when the couple moved to Todd's home in Middleton, Ohio. They had one son, David Fenton Michie Todd, born 22 February 1915, who later became a renowned architect.
Back to TopThe Michie Family Papers, 1843-1958, consist of letters, chiefly from Michie, Shaifer, and Briscoe family members; photographs of Michie and Flowers family members and a few newspaper clippings related to Frances Fenton Michie and her husband Robert Chalmers Todd. Family letters are scattered over decades and chiefly concern family news and genealogy. Of note are letters documenting movement of enslaved people to Virginia and attitudes toward women in 1843; gold-digging near Sacramento, Calif., in 1850; postwar plantation management and family resettlement in St. Joseph, La., in 1866; and parenting advice in 1915.
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Folder 1-2
Folder 1Folder 2 |
Correspondence |
Folder 3 |
Clippings |
Image Folder PF-05587/1 |
PhotographsBlack-and-white photographic prints. |