Manuscripts

Access to the medical kit in box 22 is by permission of manuscript curator only. Originals in boxes 18 and 23 are restricted; reference photocopies in boxes 3 and 17 must be used instead.

Biography:

Anson Gordon Smythe

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BISLAND (SARAH FRANCES AND MARGARET LOUISE) SCRAPBOOKS

Biography/History:

Dates: 1838-1849; n.d.

Biography:

Levin Wailes

Dates: 1858-1877; n.d.

Dates: 1961-1964.

Biography:

Joan Harris Nelson Trumpauer

Dates: 1859-1864.

Biography:

Elizabeth Augusta Murdock, only child of Abram and Grace A. Murdock, was born in New Haven, Connecticut, on December 25, 1841. A year after her birth, the family moved to Columbus, Lowndes County, Mississippi, where Abram Murdock worked as president of the Mobile and Ohio Railroad, and also as a merchant.

Dates: 1923-1958.

Biography:

Henry Bascom Collins, Jr.

Date: 1831.

Biography:

David Hunt

On October 22, 1779, David Hunt was born at Ringoes, near Trenton, Hunterdon County, New Jersey. After the death of his father, Jonathan Hunt, in 1801, David Hunt moved to Natchez, Adams County, Mississippi Territory, to work for his uncle, Abijah Hunt, in the mercantile firm of Hunt and Smith.

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KU KLUX KLAN KLORAN

Biography/History:

The Original Knights of Louisiana, an independent klan organization, established a klavern (chapter) in Natchez, Adams County, Mississippi, around October 1962. The Natchez klavern split from the Original Knights of Louisiana and assumed the name of the White Knights of the Ku Klux Klan of Mississippi in February 1964. The organization elected Samuel Holloway Bowers as imperial wizard in April 1964, and he served for five years.

Dates: 1887-1923.

Original newsclippings in folder 4 are restricted; reference photocopies in folder 1 must be used instead.