Danforth-Bush family collection, 1721-2007 (bulk 1814-1850).
Material type:
Mixed materialsDescription: 240 items; 3 containers plus 2 oversize; 1.4 linear feetSubject(s): - Adams, John, 1735-1826
- Condict, Lewis, 1773-1862 -- Correspondence
- Fillmore, Millard, 1800-1874 -- Correspondence
- Jackson, Andrew, 1767-1845 -- Correspondence
- Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron, 1803-1873
- Pierce, Franklin, 1804-1869 -- Correspondence
- Washington, Booker T., 1856-1915
- Whilldin, John Galloway, -1824 -- Correspondence
- Bush family
- Danforth family
- United States. Congress (33rd : 1853-1855) -- Autographs
- American Colonization Society
- Fourth Presbyterian Church (Bethesda, Md.)
- Governors -- United States -- Autographs
- Napoleonic Wars, 1800-1815
- Presbyterian Church -- Delaware
- Presbyterian Church -- Massachusetts
- Presbyterian Church -- Washington (D.C.)
- United States -- Politics and government -- 1789-1809
- Janvier family
- Whilldin family
Open to research.
Correspondence, journal, essays, sermons, articles, autograph collection, photographs, and other papers of the Danforth and Bush families, chiefly of Joshua N. Danforth. Subjects includes the Presbyterian Church in Delaware, Massachusetts, and Washington, D.C.; the American Colonization Society; and the allied Danforth, Janvier, and Whilldin families. Includes essays and sermons; journal of the foundation of the Fourth Presbyterian Church in Washington, D.C., later of Bethesda, Md.; a bound volume used by Jane Janvier Whilldin Danforth and other members of the Janvier family as a ledger, scrapbook, and daybook; and a biography of Joshua N. Danforth written and published by Annette Danforth Bush Doolittle in 2007. Family correspondents include Joshua N. Danforth, Jane Janvier Whilldin Danforth, John Galloway Whilldin, and other Danforth family members. Other correspondents include Lewis Condict, Millard Fillmore, Andrew Jackson, and Franklin Pierce.
Autograph collection compiled by J. Danforth Bush and other family members includes a volume containing autographs of the members of the Thirty-third Congress (House and Senate) and U.S. governors, circa 1853-1854; other clipped signatures; notes and letters written by prominent individuals including Edward Bulwer-Lyton and Booker T. Washington, 1721-1902; and a scrapbook of news clippings from various periodicals, circa 1797-1800, concerning political debates, John Adams's presidency, and Napoleonic wars.
Engravings transferred to Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division.
Printed volume published in 1713 transferred to Library of Congress Rare Book and Special Collections Division.
Family members including Joshua N. Danforth, a Presbyterian minister in the area of Washington, D.C., and an agent for the American Colonization Society; his wife, Jane Janvier Whilldin Danforth; and John Galloway Whilldin, the first husband of Jane and a physician in Philadelphia, Pa., who died in the West Indies.
Collection material in English.
Finding aid available in the Library of Congress Manuscript Reading Room and at
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