TY  - GEN
AU  - Machen,Lewis H.
AU  - Gresham,LeRoy Wiley
AU  - Machen,Arthur Webster
AU  - Machen,Caroline Webster
AU  - Machen,Emmeline
AU  - Machen,James P.
AU  - Machen,Minnie Gresham
TI  - Lewis H. Machen family papers,
KW  - Adams, John Quincy,
KW  - Brooks, Kendall,
KW  - Cilley, Joseph,
KW  - Clay, Henry,
KW  - Clayton, John M.
KW  - Clayton, Thomas,
KW  - Day, Jeremiah,
KW  - Dickins, Asbury,
KW  - Eaton, John Henry,
KW  - Force, Peter,
KW  - Ingersoll, Charles Jared,
KW  - Jackson, Andrew,
KW  - Jones, Thomas Ap Catesby,
KW  - Langdell, C. C.
KW  - Lewis, William Berkeley,
KW  - Lowrie, Walter,
KW  - Parsons, Theophilus,
KW  - Rives, William C.
KW  - Silliman, Benjamin,
KW  - Van Ness, John Peter,
KW  - Webster, Daniel,
KW  - Whelpley, J. D.
KW  - Gresham family.
KW  - Machen family.
KW  - Agriculture
KW  - Virginia
KW  - Fairfax County
KW  - Compromise of 1850
KW  - Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877)
KW  - Georgia
KW  - Macon
KW  - Slavery
KW  - United States
KW  - Baltimore (Md.)
KW  - History
KW  - Civil War, 1861-1865
KW  - Macon (Ga.)
KW  - Maryland
KW  - Public opinion
KW  - Personal narratives
KW  - Politics and government
KW  - 19th century
KW  - Farmers
KW  - itoamc
KW  - Public officials
N1  - 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
N2  - 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
UR  - http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms001030
UR  - http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms001030.3
UR  - http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/ppmsca.33535
ER  -