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He married Harriet McKenzie (ca. 1815-1891), sister of Congressman Lewis McKenzie,  and they had a daughter, Mary. James Eveleth was a clerk for the Engineering Department in the Department of War from 1829 until his death, and while in that position also served as superintendent of the Winder Building in Washington, D.C. In 1852, he was appointed by Robert E. Lee as his agent to hire out and receive payment for the work of Philip Minday (also Meriday), a man Lee enslaved. He also served as the Secretary of the \"F\" Street Church in Washington, D.C. Eveleth died on April 16, 1891, and is buried in the Congressional Cemetery in Washington, D.C.","External Sources:","U.S. Federal Census, 1860-1880.","\"James Eveleth\", FindAGrave.com,  https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/122148085/james-eveleth , accessed Jan. 30, 2024.","\"H. Ex. Doc. 36-20 - Winder's building. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting a plan and estimate for constructing certain conveniences about Winder's building. December 31, 1860. -- Referred to the Committee of Ways and Means and ordered to be printed\", U.S. Government Publishing Office, available online at  https://www.govinfo.gov/app/details/SERIALSET-01097_00_00-008-0020-0000/summary , accessed Apr. 4, 2024.","Death notice for James Eveleth,  Alexandria Gazette  (Alexandria, D.C.), April 17, 1891, p. 3, retrieved from the Library of Congress's Chronicling America,  https://www.loc.gov/resource/sn85025007/1891-04-17/ed-1/?sp=3\u0026r=-0.019,0.012,0.547,0.38,0 , accessed Apr. 4, 2024.","\"Worked Sixty-Two years for Uncle Sam\" [Obituary for James Eleveth],  Muscatine News-Tribune  (Muscatine, Iowa), April 21, 1891, p. 8, retrieved from Newspapers.com,  https://newscomwc.newspapers.com/image/542061698/?terms=james%20eveleth , accessed Apr. 4, 2024.","Death notice for Harriet McKenzie Eveleth,  Alexandria Gazette  (Alexandria, D.C.), July 20, 1891, p. 3, retrieved from the Library of Congress's Chronicling America,  https://www.loc.gov/resource/sn85025007/1891-07-20/ed-1/?sp=3\u0026r=-0.025,0.82,0.552,0.384,0 , accessed Apr. 4, 2024.","\"Lease for a Slave, 1852 August 1\", Transcribed by Colin Woodward, 2015 September 4, from  The Archives of the Robert E. 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The letter is informing Nourse that the Board of Trustees of F Street Church, the church she attended, had resolved that the pew she used be \"tendered to her free of rent\".","The copyright status of this collection is unknown. Copyright restrictions\nmay apply. Contact Special Collections and University Archives for\nassistance in determining the use of these materials. ","Reproduction or\ndigitization of materials for personal or research use can be requested using\nour reproduction/digitization form:  http://bit.ly/scuareproduction .","Reproduction or digitization of materials for publication or exhibit use can\nbe requested using our publication/exhibition form:\n http://bit.ly/scuapublication . Please contact Special Collections and University Archives (specref@vt.edu or 540-231-6308) if you need assistance with forms or to submit a completed form.","The James Eveleth Letter to Maria Louisa Bull Nourse was written by James Eveleth in Washington D.C., on April 22, 1842, to Maria Louisa Bull Nourse. 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