Levis Miller family correspondence
Scope and Contents
This small collection includes five letters. Four of them are letters from George Miller in Trenton, Iowa, writing to his brother, Levis Miller in Media, Delaware County, Pa. One letter is from Annie E. Miller (daughter of Levis?) to her brother, Edgar Miller. George's letters primarily relate farming matters, but of special interest is a political discussion including "negro suffrage" on the last page of the December 1868 letter.
Dates
- Creation: 1866 - 1869
Conditions Governing Access
Collection is open for research.
Conditions Governing Use
Friends Historical Library believes all of the items in this collection to be in the Public Domain in the United States, and is not aware of any restrictions on their use. However, the user is responsible for making a final determination of copyright status before reproducing. See http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/.
Biographical / Historical
Levis Miller (1806-1891) was the son of George Miller and Mary Levis. He married Ann McIlvaine at Chester in 1832. They had at least 11 children, one of whom was Anna (born in 1841) who married Joseph Williamson Hawley in 1864.
Extent
.05 linear ft. (1 folder)
Language of Materials
English
Abstract
This small collection includes five letters. Four of them are letters from George Miller in Trenton, Iowa, writing to his brother, Levis Miller in Media, Delaware County, Pa. One letter is from Annie E. Miller (daughter of Levis?) to her brother, Edgar Miller. George's letters primarily relate farming matters, but of special interest is a political discussion including "negro suffrage" on the last page of the December 1868 letter.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Gift of Luann Ham, 2017 (acc. FHL-2017-029).
- Author
- Celia Caust-Ellenbogen
- Date
- 2025
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
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