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Box 16

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Contains 9 Results:

Box 16

 File — Box: 16
Identifier: id190415
Scope and Contents From the Series: Several sketches of the life of John Millington, 1779-1868, and genealogical information on the family are to be found here. Papers of John Millington include his commission as an officer in the St. James Loyal Volunteers, London, and certificate for hair powder allowance, 1801; license as attorney under George III, 1802-1804; and his activities as an engineer in constructing a suspension bridge in Buchinghamshire, 1829. The notice of the sale of his effects in London and a passport to Vera...
Dates: 1801-1951

Box 16

 File — Box: 16
Identifier: id190416
Scope and Contents From the Series: Letters and papers of John Millington record his move to the newly opened University of Mississippi in Oxford, Mississippi, 1850, and to the Medical College, Memphis, Tennessee, 1853. From this period came an order for payment for engineering services to the Mississippi Central Railroad, a copy of a medical address pritned in the Memphis Daily Bulletin, and letters from Williamsburg, Virginia, where he still owned a house, 1855-1858. A letter written by John C. Phillips after an eight month...
Dates: 1850-1892

Box 16

 File — Box: 16
Identifier: id175486
Scope and Contents From the Series:

Donated by the heirs of Frank B. Blankenship, grandson of John Millington.

Dates: 1801-1951

"Prof. Millington's Address" from the Memphis Daily Bulletin, 1858 November 11

 File — Box: 16, Folder: 23
Identifier: id93710
Scope and Contents

Newspaper clipping.

Dates: 1858 November 11

Deed Poll from John Thompson, Sheriff, Philadelphia, to John H. Curtis, 1864 March 22

 File — Box: 16, Folder: 57
Identifier: id93744
Scope and Contents From the Series: Letters and papers of John Millington record his move to the newly opened University of Mississippi in Oxford, Mississippi, 1850, and to the Medical College, Memphis, Tennessee, 1853. From this period came an order for payment for engineering services to the Mississippi Central Railroad, a copy of a medical address pritned in the Memphis Daily Bulletin, and letters from Williamsburg, Virginia, where he still owned a house, 1855-1858. A letter written by John C. Phillips after an eight month...
Dates: 1864 March 22

Deed Poll from James A. Pollock to Thomas Holden, 1869 February 13

 File — Box: 16, Folder: 19
Identifier: id93855
Scope and Contents From the Series: Harriet Blankenship Papers, 1834-1861, and Blankenship Family papers, 1866-1951. Included is correspondence with John Wesley Johnson of Mississippi and George F. Holmes of the University of Virginia regarding the biography of Dr. John Millington. There are letters from Frank and John Blankenship to their mother, Mrs. Kate M. Blankenship, many of which are from Florida and Cuba in the time of the Spanish-American War, 1989-1899. Included is correspondence, 1937, between Mrs. Blankenship and...
Dates: 1869 February 13

Early photograph of the "Wythe House," Williamsburg, Virginia, undated

 File — Box: 16, Folder: 42
Identifier: id93959
Scope and Contents

Photograph from when it was owned by John Millington, together with the later post card picture of the house.

Dates: undated