Wilson family correspondence related to emigration from Scotland to Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and
Container / Volume:
Box 1 | Folder 79
Image Count:
2
Resource Type:
Archives or Manuscripts
Abstract:
Letters from Agnes to James, March-December 1873, document their courtship, as well as his travel through Italy and return to Auburn Theological Seminary in Auburn, New York. After their marriage in April 1874, letters from Agnes to relatives in Scotland discuss their lives in the United States, including their initial settlement in Philadelphia and activities in Cedarville, New Jersey, where James served as a minister at First Presbyterian Church from September 1874 until June 1878. Letters from this period also document the birth and early life of their daughter, as well as a brief letter by James that announces the birth of their son., Letters from June 1878 to November 1879, discuss the relocation of the Wilson family to WaKeeney, Kansas, and document their activities in the burgeoning community, including building a house and cultivating an 800-acre farm, as well as the activities of the Home Mission congregation. Letters also document events in WaKeeney related to the Northern Cheyenne Exodus, also known as Dull Knife's Raid, in October 1878, which was an attempt of the Northern Cheyenne Indians to return to their traditional lands after relocation to the Cheyenne and Arapaho Reservation. A final letter from this period documents the death of James from malarial fever on November 26, 1879. Letters after this period consists chiefly of correspondence Agnes Wilson to her older sister in 1879-1880, as well as a single letter to her in 1941., Many of the letters have brief notations made in 1906 by Anne Edina Hately Wilson Paul, the daughter of Agnes and James., and 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 fiancée 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). and WaKeeney, Kansas, was established in 1879 on land purchased from the Kansas Pacific Railway by the Chicago land development firm of Warren, Keeney, & Co.
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, and 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, and Wilson, S. A. Kinnier (Samuel Alexander Kinnier), 1878-1937
Subject (Topic):
Cheyenne Indians, Clergy--Kansas, Clergy--New Jersey, Home missions--Kansas, and Malaria--Kansas--WaKeeney
Preface "To all that fear the Lord in truth, greeting, with unfeined love in Jesus Christ" (signed: Christopher Pooley, from my study in Norwich): p. [3-4] (1st count).
"February 1921"., Inset: Sketch map of Unzen Park., On verso: text, ill. and tourist info., Shows roads, waterways, houses, post offices and ports., and Unzen and neighbourhood -- Sea routes with Nagasaki as centre -- Map showing the neighbourhood of Nagasaki.
Frederick Samuel Dellenbaugh collection of photographs and drawings of the Colorado River region.
Container / Volume:
Box 5 | Folder 156
Image Count:
2
Resource Type:
Prints & Photographs
Abstract:
A view of a broad plain with layered cliffs in the distance.
Description:
Frederick Samuel Dellenbaugh, a member of John Wesley Powells second expedition down the Colorado River (1871-1873); author of the Romance of the Colorado River and A Canyon Voyage, and numerous other books. and In pencil verso: up Kanab Creek above / Kanab -
James D. Hutton collection of drawings and photographs.
Container / Volume:
Box 1 | Folder 13
Image Count:
2
Abstract:
Four salted paper prints made during the Raynolds expedition of 1859-1860 depicting Laramie Hills with tipis in the foreground; a fort, possibly Fort Union; two sets of group portraits of Arapahos, one of them of Arapaho chiefs Eagle Head, Split-nose, Little Owl, and Friday. There are 17 drawings by Hutton, 11 of them of western views, most probably made during the Raynolds expedition, depicting Fort Sarpy on the Yellowstone; Eagle Creek on the upper Missouri River; the valley of Wind River; Red Canon Creek, Big Horn Mountains; and Lodge Pole Peak and Crow Peak in the Black Hills. There are nine other drawings present, six by three other identified artists: R. W. Ingle, W. Taylor, Jr., and William Rich Hutton, James' brother. The drawing by William Rich Hutton is a view of San Francisco. Accompanied by a document made out to Miss Ellen S. Hutton in thanks for her work as church organist.
Description:
Accompanied by a container list., James D. Hutton headed the photographic unit of the 1856-1860 expedition led by Captain William Franklin Raynolds to the Yellowstone and the Wind River Mountains., and See also Hutton photographs in the William Franklin Raynolds Papers, WA MSS 393.
