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Family records

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Scope Note: Here are entered works on the various kinds of personal records kept by household members, such as financial and medical documents, to facilitate the conduct of their individual and joint affairs.

Found in 54 Collections and/or Records:

William P. Preston collection

 Collection
Identifier: MS 0978
Abstract The William P. Preston Collection contains primarily three groups of material: papers of William P. Preston, prominent Baltimore criminal lawyer; correspondence of his wife Margaret Smith Preston; and correspondence as well as other material related to their daughter May Preston McNeal. The items pertaining to William P. Preston are nearly all connected with his legal practice. Included are accounts, bills, and receipts associated with insolvency and debt collection cases; case note; court...
Dates: 1799-1913

Wilmer- Hoffman-Deford manuscript collection

 Collection
Identifier: MS 3079
Abstract

The Wilmer – Hoffman – Deford Manuscript Collection follow different branches of the Deford family tree, highlighting the lives of various, but eventually connected, families, extending from 1777 to 1999. The bulk of the papers (1777 – 1981) center around individual members of the families including James P. Wilmer, Wilmer Hoffman, RC Hoffman, and Mary Dorothea Hoffman Deford.

Dates: 1777-1999; Majority of material found within 1777-1981

Wilson papers

 Collection
Identifier: MS 0833
Abstract The Wilson papers contains a collection of personal and business papers of members of Wilson family, principally, Reverend Franklin Wilson, a Baptist minister, and his wife Virginia Appleton Wilson; his son, John Appleton Wilson, an architect, and daughter Adelaide S. Wilson, and granddaughter, Virginia Appleton Wilson. Papers include correspondence, diaries, account books, scrapbooks, photographs, legal documents, church records and records of John Appleton's architectural firm. Topics...
Dates: 1790-1952

Wyeth family manuscript collection

 Collection
Identifier: MS 2174
Abstract

This collection focuses on the genealogy of the Wyeth family and incldes several charts detailing the family tree.

Dates: 1862-1956