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245 0 0 _aDanforth-Bush family collection,
_f1721-2007
_g(bulk 1814-1850).
300 _a240
_fitems.
300 _a3
_fcontainers plus
_a2
_foversize.
300 _a1.4
_flinear feet.
506 0 _aOpen to research.
520 8 _aCorrespondence, 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.
520 8 _aAutograph 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.
544 _3Engravings
_etransferred to
_aLibrary of Congress Prints and Photographs Division.
544 _3Printed volume published in 1713
_etransferred to
_aLibrary of Congress Rare Book and Special Collections Division.
545 0 _aFamily 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.
546 _aCollection material in English.
555 8 _aFinding aid available in the Library of Congress Manuscript Reading Room and at
_uhttp://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms012096
600 1 0 _aAdams, John,
_d1735-1826.
600 1 0 _aCondict, Lewis,
_d1773-1862
_vCorrespondence.
600 1 0 _aFillmore, Millard,
_d1800-1874
_vCorrespondence.
600 1 0 _aJackson, Andrew,
_d1767-1845
_vCorrespondence.
600 1 0 _aLytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton,
_cBaron,
_d1803-1873.
600 1 0 _aPierce, Franklin,
_d1804-1869
_vCorrespondence.
600 1 0 _aWashington, Booker T.,
_d1856-1915.
600 1 0 _aWhilldin, John Galloway,
_d-1824
_vCorrespondence.
600 3 0 _aBush family.
600 3 0 _aDanforth family.
610 1 0 _aUnited States.
_bCongress
_n(33rd :
_d1853-1855)
_vAutographs.
610 2 0 _aAmerican Colonization Society.
610 2 0 _aFourth Presbyterian Church (Bethesda, Md.)
650 0 _aGovernors
_zUnited States
_vAutographs.
650 0 _aNapoleonic Wars, 1800-1815.
650 0 _aPresbyterian Church
_zDelaware.
650 0 _aPresbyterian Church
_zMassachusetts.
650 0 _aPresbyterian Church
_zWashington (D.C.)
651 0 _aUnited States
_xPolitics and government
_y1789-1809.
600 3 4 _aJanvier family.
600 3 4 _aWhilldin family.
700 1 _aBush, J. Danforth,
_q(Joshua Danforth)
_d1868-1926,
_ecollector.
_tDanforth-Bush family collection.
_f1721-2007.
700 1 _aDanforth, Jane Janvier Whilldin,
_d1797-1870.
_tJane Janvier Whilldin Danforth papers.
700 1 _aDanforth, Joshua N.
_q(Joshua Noble),
_d1798-1861.
_tJoshua N. Danforth papers.
700 1 _aDoolittle, Annette Danforth Bush,
_d-1824.
_tJoshua N. Danforth biography.
_f2007.
856 4 _3Finding aid
_uhttp://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms012096
856 4 _3Finding aid (PDF)
_uhttp://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms012096.3
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