J. Willcox Brown and Turner Macfarland Letters

Access and use

Location of collection:
College of William and Mary
Special Collections Research Center
Earl Gregg Swem Library
College of William and Mary
400 Landrum Drive
PO 8795
Williamsburg, VA 23187-8795
Contact for questions and access:
Phone: (757) 221-3090
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Restrictions:

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Terms of access:

Before reproducing or quoting from any materials, in whole or in part, permission must be obtained from the Special Collections Research Center, and the holder of the copyright, if not Swem Library.

Preferred citation:

J. Willcox Brown and Turner Macfarland Letters, Special Collections Research Center, William & Mary Libraries.

Summary

Extent:
1.00 Linear Feet 1 century boc
Creator:
Brown, John Willcox, 1833-1914
Language:
English
Preferred citation:

J. Willcox Brown and Turner Macfarland Letters, Special Collections Research Center, William & Mary Libraries.

Background

Scope and content:

Contains 2 bound letterbooks. One volume has letters from J. Willcox Brown to Ellen Turner Macfarland, and the other volume contains her letters to him.There is also a microfilm reel of the correspondence.

Biographical / historical:

John Willcox Brown was the son of John Thompson Brown and Mary Edloe (Willcox) Brown. He lived in Petersburg, Va. until 1869 when he moved to Baltimore, Md. He had served in the Confederate Army and was a lt. col of artillery. He married Ellen Turner Macfarland of Richmond in 1867. He was a banker and stock broker with the firm of Brown and Lowndes.

Acquisition information:
Donated to William Mary Libraries on behalf of Greta Brown Layton by her children.
Physical facet:
2 bound volumes of correspondence.