Undated letters from James Kinnier Wilson to Agnes Ledgerwood Hately Wilson

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Description

Title
Undated letters from James Kinnier Wilson to Agnes Ledgerwood Hately Wilson
Contributor
Auburn Theological Seminary (New York, N.Y.)
First Presbyterian Church (Cedarville, N.J.)
Hately family
Macfie, Mary Ann Atkinson Hately, 1840-
MacIntosh, Agnes Ledgerwood Hately Wilson, 1845-1931
Paul, Anne Edina Hately Wilson, 1876-1959
Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Clergy
Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Missions Kansas
Wilson family
Wilson, James Kinnier, 1846-1879
Wilson, S. A. Kinnier (Samuel Alexander Kinnier), 1878-1937
Published / Created
circa 1876-1877
Abstract

The collection consists of letters related to the Wilson family, which document their emigration from Great Britain to New Jersey and Kansas, 1873-1941, with the bulk of the material covering years from 1873 to 1879. Agnes Ledgerwood Hately, later Wilson, wrote most of the letters to her fianceĢe and then husband, James Kinnier Wilson, as well as to her family in Scotland.

Description
Agnes Ledgerwood Hately Wilson MacIntosh (1845-1931) was a daughter of Thomas Ledgerwood Hately (1816-1867), a composer and precentor of the Free High Church in Edinburgh, Scotland, and Ann Atkinson Brook Hately (1817-1861). She had two older siblings, Mary Ann Atkinson Hately Macfie (born 1840) and composer Walter Hately (1843-1907). Agnes also worked as a teacher of singing in Edinburgh, Scotland, before her marriage. In April 1874, Agnes married Reverend James Kinnier Wilson (1846-1879), a Presbyterian minister originally from County Monaghan, Ireland, who studied at Princeton University (1869), the Presbyterian Theological Seminary of the Northwest (1871-1873), and at Auburn Theological Seminary (1873-1874). From 1874 to 1878, James served as a minister at the First Presbyterian Church in Cedarville, New Jersey. The Wilsons had two children, Anne Edina Hately Wilson Paul (1876-1959), and neurologist Samuel Alexander Kinnier Wilson (1878-1937). In June 1878, the Wilson family relocated to WaKeeney, Kansas, where James served the Home Mission of the Presbyterian Church in the United States of America until his death in November 1879 from malaria. Agnes and their children returned to Scotland. In 1881, she married Henry MacIntosh (1836-1894), and they had a son, Henry Walter McIntosh (born 1882).
WaKeeney, Kansas, was established in 1879 on land purchased from the Kansas Pacific Railway by the Chicago land development firm of Warren, Keeney, & Co.
Extent of Digitization
This object has been completely digitized.
Language
English

Collection Information

Repository
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library
Call Number
WA MSS S-2824
Collection Title
Wilson family correspondence related to emigration from Scotland to Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and Kansas
Collection / Other Creator
Wilson family
Collection Date
1872-1941 (bulk 1873-1879)
Container / Volume
Box 1 | Folder 74

Subjects, Formats, And Genres

Format
text
Genre
Correspondence
Manuscripts
Pamphlets
Resource Type
Archives or Manuscripts
Subject (Geographic)
Cedarville (N.J.)--Religious life and customs
Cedarville (N.J.)--Social life and customs
Cheyenne and Arapaho Reservation (Okla.)
Philadelphia (Pa.) Social life and customs
Philadelphia (Pa.)--Religious life and customs
Scotland--Emigration and immigration
WaKeeney (Kan.)--Religious life and customs
WaKeeney (Kan.)--Social life and customs
Subject (Name)
Auburn Theological Seminary (New York, N.Y.)
First Presbyterian Church (Cedarville, N.J.)
Hately family
Macfie, Mary Ann Atkinson Hately, 1840-
MacIntosh, Agnes Ledgerwood Hately Wilson, 1845-1931
Paul, Anne Edina Hately Wilson, 1876-1959
Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Clergy
Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Missions Kansas
Wilson family
Wilson, James Kinnier, 1846-1879
Wilson, S. A. Kinnier (Samuel Alexander Kinnier), 1878-1937
Subject (Topic)
Cheyenne Indians
Clergy--Kansas
Clergy--New Jersey
Home missions--Kansas
Malaria--Kansas--WaKeeney

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Citation
Wilson Family Correspondence Related to Emigration from Scotland to Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and Kansas. Yale Collection of Western Americana, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library.

Identifiers

Orbis Record
11660598
Object ID (OID)
17259298

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