Machen, Lewis H. (Lewis Henry) 1790-1863 creator mixed material monographic eng 5,000 33 1 12 Chiefly family correspondence of Lewis H. Machen, relating to personal matters and to national politics prior to the Civil War, especially slavery and the Compromise of 1850, and mentioning John Quincy Adams, Henry Clay, Andrew Jackson, and Daniel Webster, together with other correspondence, speeches, writings, subject files, and other papers; correspondence of Machen's son, Arthur Webster Machen (1827-1919), lawyer, of Baltimore, Md., reflecting opinion in Baltimore and in rural Maryland at the outbreak of the Civil War; farming and household account book (1833-1857) kept by Lewis H. Machen in Fairfax County, Va.; account book (1858-1889) kept by another son, James P. Machen; papers of Arthur Machen's wife, Minnie Gresham Machen, including family correspondence, diaries of her brother, LeRoy Wiley Gresham, and other papers relating to the Civil War and Reconstruction in Macon, Ga.; and receipts and financial papers, recipes, photographs, scrapbooks, clippings, printed matter, and other papers. Other family members represented include Lewis Machen's wife, Caroline Webster Machen, and their daughter, Emmeline. Lewis and Arthur Machen's correspondents include Kendall Brooks, Joseph Cilley, John M. Clayton, Thomas Clayton, Jeremiah Day, Asbury Dickins, John Henry Eaton, Peter Force, Charles Jared Ingersoll, Andrew Jackson, Thomas Ap Catesby Jones, C.C. Langdell, William Berkeley Lewis, Walter Lowrie, Theophilus Parsons, William C. Rives, Benjamin Silliman, John Peter Van Ness, and J.D. Whelpley. Open to research. Digital version of ambrotype of LeRoy Wiley Gresham (dating between 1854 and 1865) available through the Library of Congress Web site. Microfilm edition of account books in container 26 available, no. 17,150. Microfilm produced from originals of account books in the Manuscript Division. Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress Photoduplication Service, 1977. Ambrotype transferred to Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division. Clerk of the U.S. Senate and farmer, of Fairfax County, Va. Collection material in English. Finding aid available in the Library of Congress Manuscript Reading Room and at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms001030 Adams, John Quincy 1767-1848 Brooks, Kendall 1821-1898 Cilley, Joseph 1791-1887 Clay, Henry 1777-1852 Clayton, John M. (John Middleton) 1796-1856 Clayton, Thomas 1777-1854 Day, Jeremiah 1773-1867 Dickins, Asbury 1780-1861 Eaton, John Henry 1790-1856 Force, Peter 1790-1868 Ingersoll, Charles Jared 1782-1862 Jackson, Andrew 1767-1845 Jones, Thomas Ap Catesby 1790-1858 Langdell, C. C. (Christopher Columbus) 1826-1906 Lewis, William Berkeley 1784-1866 Lowrie, Walter 1784-1868 Parsons, Theophilus 1797-1882 Rives, William C. (William Cabell) 1793-1868 Silliman, Benjamin 1779-1864 Van Ness, John Peter 1770-1846 Webster, Daniel 1782-1852 Whelpley, J. D. (James Davenport) 1863- Gresham family Machen family Agriculture Virginia Fairfax County Compromise of 1850 Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877) Georgia Macon Slavery United States Baltimore (Md.) History Civil War, 1861-1865 Georgia History Civil War, 1861-1865 Macon (Ga.) History Civil War, 1861-1865 Maryland History Civil War, 1861-1865 United States History Civil War, 1861-1865 Public opinion United States History Civil War, 1861-1865 Personal narratives United States Politics and government 19th century Farmers Public officials Gresham, LeRoy Wiley, 1847-1865 Machen, Arthur Webster, 1827-1919 Machen, Caroline Webster. Machen, Emmeline. Machen, James P. Machen, Minnie Gresham. mm 77086777 hdl:loc.mss/eadmss.ms001030 hdl:loc.mss/eadmss.ms001030.3 hdl:loc.pnp/ppmsca.33535 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms001030 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms001030.3 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/ppmsca.33535 Open to research. DLC 771129 20260227111618.0 mm 77086777 eng