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  <titleInfo>
    <title>Montgomery family papers, 1771-1974 (bulk 1858-1974)</title>
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    <issuance>monographic</issuance>
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    <extent>33</extent>
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  <abstract>Correspondence, speeches, writings, financial records, newspaper clippings, and other papers of members of the Montgomery family and allied Peck and Perkins families.</abstract>
  <abstract>Includes papers of Giles Foster Montgomery and Emily Redington Montgomery relating to their years as missionaries in Turkey (1863-1888); papers of their son, George Redington Montgomery; and correspondence of their daughter, Mary Borglum, and her husband, Gutzon Borglum.  Papers of George Redington Montgomery document his academic and ministerial career and his work with the Paris Peace Conference, Inter-allied Commission on Mandates in Turkey (King-Crane Commission), and the Armenia America Society; and papers of his son, Marshall Hugh Montgomery, concern his career with Aubrey G. Langston &amp; Co. as a New York securities dealer and banker.  George Redington Montgomery's correspondents include Homer S. Cummings, Ernest Gallaudet Draper, John L. Franklin, Robert Lansing, Henry Cabot Lodge, Eugene Meyer, and J.A. Trowbridge, Jr.</abstract>
  <abstract>Peck family papers consist primarily of correspondence between Frank Henry Peck and family members relating to his experiences in the Civil War with the 12th Connecticut Infantry Regiment, U.S. Army.  Subjects include the bombardment of Fort Jackson, La., and Fort Saint Philip, La., and finally, the capitulation and military occupation of New Orleans, La.</abstract>
  <abstract>Papers of the Perkins family consist chiefly of the correspondence of Newton William Perkins concerning his service with the 13th Connecticut Infantry Regiment, U.S. Army, on board various ships and from different camps, tracing the movement of his regiment from Connecticut to New Orleans and later to Washington, D.C., and Virginia.</abstract>
  <note>Open to research.</note>
  <note>Some photographs transferred to Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division.</note>
  <note>Collection material in English.</note>
  <note xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xlink:href="http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms013016">Finding aid available in the Library of Congress Manuscript Reading Room and at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms013016</note>
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      <namePart>Borglum, Gutzon</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1867-1941</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Borglum, Mary</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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      <namePart>Cummings, Homer S. (Homer Stillé)</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1870-1956</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Draper, Ernest Gallaudet</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1885-1954</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Franklin, John L. (John Lester)</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1856-1901</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Lansing, Robert</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1864-1928</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Lodge, Henry Cabot</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1850-1924</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Meyer, Eugene</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1875-1959</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Peck, Frank Henry</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1836-1864</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Perkins, Newton William</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1839-1902</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart type="termsOfAddress">Jr</namePart>
      <namePart>Trowbridge, J. A. (James A.)</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Montgomery family</namePart>
    </name>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Peck family</namePart>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Perkins family</namePart>
    </name>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="corporate">
      <namePart>United States.</namePart>
      <namePart>Army</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Military life</topic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="corporate">
      <namePart>United States.</namePart>
      <namePart>Army.</namePart>
      <namePart>Connecticut Infantry Regiment, 12th (1861-1865)</namePart>
    </name>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="corporate">
      <namePart>United States.</namePart>
      <namePart>Army.</namePart>
      <namePart>Connecticut Infantry Regiment, 13th (1862-1866)</namePart>
    </name>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="corporate">
      <namePart>Aubrey G. Langston &amp; Co.</namePart>
    </name>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="corporate">
      <namePart>Armenia America Society.</namePart>
    </name>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="corporate">
      <namePart>Inter-allied Commission on Mandates in Turkey.</namePart>
      <namePart>American Section.</namePart>
    </name>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="conference">
      <namePart>Paris Peace Conference (1919-1920)</namePart>
    </name>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Banks and banking</topic>
    <geographic>New York (State)</geographic>
    <geographic>New York</geographic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Missions</topic>
    <geographic>Turkey</geographic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Securities</topic>
    <geographic>New York (State)</geographic>
    <geographic>New York</geographic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <geographic>Connecticut</geographic>
    <topic>History</topic>
    <temporal>Civil War, 1861-1865</temporal>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <geographic>Fort Jackson (La.)</geographic>
    <topic>History</topic>
    <temporal>Siege, 1862</temporal>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <geographic>Fort Saint Philip (La.)</geographic>
    <topic>History</topic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <geographic>Louisiana</geographic>
    <topic>History</topic>
    <temporal>Civil War, 1861-1865</temporal>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <geographic>New Orleans (La.)</geographic>
    <topic>History</topic>
    <temporal>Capture, 1862</temporal>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <geographic>New Orleans (La.)</geographic>
    <topic>History</topic>
    <temporal>Civil War, 1861-1865</temporal>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <geographic>Turkey</geographic>
    <topic>Social conditions</topic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <geographic>United States</geographic>
    <topic>History</topic>
    <temporal>Civil War, 1861-1865</temporal>
    <topic>Campaigns</topic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <geographic>Virginia</geographic>
    <topic>History</topic>
    <temporal>Civil War, 1861-1865</temporal>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <geographic>Washington (D.C.)</geographic>
    <topic>History</topic>
    <temporal>Civil War, 1861-1865</temporal>
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      <title>Emily Redington Montgomery papers</title>
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      <namePart>Montgomery, Emily Redington,</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1839-1898</namePart>
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      <title>George Redington Montgomery papers</title>
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      <namePart>Montgomery, George Redington,</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1870-1945</namePart>
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      <title>Giles Foster Montgomery papers</title>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Montgomery, Giles Foster,</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1835-1888</namePart>
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      <title>Marshall Hugh Montgomery papers</title>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Montgomery, Marshall Hugh,</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1909-2000</namePart>
    </name>
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