Finding aid for the Aldrich Collection – MUM00006
Table of Contents
- Summary Information
- Biographical Note
- Scope and Content Note
- Arrangement
- Administrative Information
- Related Materials
- Controlled Access Headings
- PURL
- Collection Inventory
- Series I. Personal & Business Correspondence
- Series III. Legal & Business Documents
- Series IV. Miscellaneous
- Series V. Photographs
PURL
http://purl.oclc.org/umarchives/MUM00006/
Summary Information
- Repository
- University of Mississippi Libraries
- Creator
- Aldrich family
- Title
- Aldrich Collection
- ID
- MUM00006
- Date [bulk]
- 1840-1940
- Date [inclusive]
- 1798-1972
- Extent
- 10.84 Linear feet (25 boxes)
- Abstract
- Includes Aldrich and Treadwell family correspondence, personal & business papers, slave lists & valuations, genealogical materials
and miscellanea. Topics include raising cotton and cattle, slaves, politics, the Civil War, investments in real estate and
railroads, land transactions, secondary schools and universities throughout the South, the Benton County Free Fair, Revolutionary
War pensions and World War I.
Preferred Citation
Aldrich Collection (MUM00006), Archives and Special Collections, J.D. Williams Library, The University of Mississippi
Biographical Note
The Treadwell family possessed a charter from Charles II and originally settled in North Carolina. Some members of the family
moved to the Mississippi Territory when it was still considered the Choctaw Nation. They settled in northeastern Mississippi
around Lamar and Davis Mills (now Michigan City) and some family members have remained until today.
Scope and Content Note
Series I, Personal & Business Correspondence, contains all correspondence excluding the separately donated letters between
Allie Treadwell and J. Marvin Aldrich located in Series II; however, Series I does contain some correspondence related to
these two individuals. Series I includes political commentaries, discussions of secession & other war-time events, correspondence
about & by slaves, invitations and miscellaneous family correspondence. There are also World War I letters from Ransom Aldrich
to his parents.
Materials in Series II, Allie Treadwell (later Aldrich) and J. Marvin Aldrich Letters, were donated separately and primarily
consist of the love letters between Allie Treadwell and J. Marvin Aldrich. There is also correspondence during their marriage.
Series III, Legal & Business Documents, contain land deeds, slave lists, slave valuations, promissory notes, Revolutionary
War pension papers, statements of accounts, miscellaneous business papers, account books and many receipts, including cotton,
poll, tuition, and real property tax receipts, masonic and freight. Series II also contains Oaths of Loyalty, materials related
to John G. Jones’s position at the Methodist Episcopal Church, materials related to T.L. Treadwell’s and Company G, 50th regiment
of Mississippi Militia as well as documents related to Post Office appointment in Lamar, Mississippi. One family member was
an attorney so the collection contains many different types of legal records. Other family vocations include cotton farming,
animal husbandry, ferry management, postal work, mercantile shopkeeping, and investing in real estate and railroads. There
are several different examples of labor contracts in the collection. Many of the children were educated. There is supporting
documentation pertaining to secondary schools and universities throughout the South, beginning in the 1840’s; Series II contains
materials related to the education of various members of the family as well as documents related to Lamar Female Academy,
which the family helped establish.
Series IV, Miscellaneous, includes an Undated Family Tree, leather wallets, book jackets, programs, speeaches, clippings,
announcements pertaining to slave births & deaths, ephemeral items, materials related to the “Know Mississippi Better” railroad
project, calling & business cards, compositions and poetry.
Series V, Photographs, contains family photographs as well as images of unidentified others.
Arrangement
This collection is arranged in 4 series and chronologically within each series.
- Series I. Personal & Business Correspondence
- Subseries I. Personal & Business Correspondence, 1821-1840
- Subseries II. Personal & Business Correspondence, 1841-1850
- Subseries III. Personal & Business Correspondence, 1851-1860
- Subseries IV. Personal & Business Correspondence, 1861-1870
- Subseries V. Personal & Business Correspondence, 1871-1880
- Subseries VI. Personal & Business Correspondence, 1881-1890
- Subseries VII. Personal & Business Correspondence, 1891-1900
- Subseries VIII. Personal & Business Correspondence, 1901-1910
- Subseries IX. Personal & Business Correspondence, 1911-1920
- Subseries X. Personal & Business Correspondence, 1921-1937
- Subseries XI. Personal & Business Correspondence, Undated
- Series II. Allie Treadwell (later Aldrich) and J. Marvin Aldrich Letters
- Subseries I. A. Treadwell & J.M. Aldrich Letters. Undated, 1879-1882
- Subseries II. A. Treadwell & J.M. Aldrich Letters. 1883
- Subseries III. A. Treadwell & J.M. Aldrich Letters. 1884
- Subseries IV. A. Treadwell & J.M. Aldrich Letters. 1885
- Subseries V. A. Treadwell & J.M. Aldrich Letters. 1886
- Subseries VI. A. Treadwell & J.M. Aldrich Letters. 1887
- Subseries VII. A. Treadwell & J.M. Aldrich Letters. 1888-1901
- Subseries VIII. A. Treadwell & J.M. Aldrich Letters. 1903
- Subseries IX. A. Treadwell & J.M. Aldrich Letters. 1904
- Subseries X. A. Treadwell & J.M. Aldrich Letters. 1905-1912
- Subseries XI. A. Treadwell & J.M. Aldrich Letters. 1913
- Subseries XII. A. Treadwell & J.M. Aldrich Letters. 1916-1929
- Subseries XIII. A. Treadwell & J.M. Aldrich Letters. 1930-1972
- Series III. Legal & Business Documents
- Series IV. Miscellaneous
- Series V. Photographs
Administrative Information
Publication Information
University of Mississippi Libraries
Access Restrictions
The Aldrich Collection is open for research.
Copyright Restrictions
The copyright law of the United States (Title 17, United States Code) governs the making of photocopies or other reproductions
of copyrighted material. Under certain conditions specified in the law, libraries and archives are authorized to furnish a
photocopy or other reproduction. One of these specified conditions is that the photocopy or reproduction is not to be “used
for any purpose other than private study, scholarship or research.” If a user makes a request for, or later uses, a photocopy
or reproduction for purposes in excess of “fair use”, that user may be liable for copyright infringement.
Additions
No further additions are expected to this collection.
Acquisition Information
Original collection donated by Judith Crenshaw and Frances A. Taylor, May 1985. Accretion donated by Mr. Sledge Taylor, October
2009.
Processing Information
Original materials in the collection processed by Archives & Special Collections staff, 1985. Initial finding aid mounted
by Chatham Ewing. Accretion processed by Jennifer Ford, 2010. Finding aid encoded and revised by Jason Kovari, February 2010.
Finding aid revised and updated by Kathryn Michaelis, April 2013.
Alternative Formats
The first six boxes of this collection have been digitized and are accessible as a
digital collection.
Related Materials
Resources at the University of Mississippi
For more Civil War materials housed in the Archives & Special Collections, see our
Civil War subject guide.
For more Reconstruction era materials in the Archives & Special Collections, see our
Reconstruction subject guide.
For more materials on Women & Gender Relations housed in the Archives & Special Collections, see our
Gender Studies subject guide.
For more materials related to Mississippians at War housed in the Archives & Special Collections, see our
Wars (excluding the American Civil War) subject guide.
For more materials related to the Choctaw Nation and other Native American groups housed in the Archives & Special Collections,
see our
Native American subject guide.
For more materials related to Education & Educational Institutions housed in the Archives & Special Collections, see our
Education subject guide.
Separated Material
Photographs from this collection have been removed to Collection Photographs for preservation. Please contact
Archives and Special Collections at least two days in advance of your visit if you need to use the photographs.
Clothing items from this collection have been transfered to the University of Mississippi Museums, 1985. These include: (1)
Lace mourning dress, circa 1890 ; (2) Child’s linen dress, circa 1900 ; (3) Top hat
Controlled Access Headings
Format(s)
- account books
- business records
- correspondence
- deeds
- genealogical tables
- love letters
- photographs
- ambrotypes (photographs)
- daguerreotypes (photographs)
- promissory notes
- receipts (financial records)
Geographic Name(s)
- Benton County (Miss.) — History
- Marshall County (Miss.) — History
- Mississippi — History — Civil War, 1861-1865
- United States — History — Civil War, 1861-1865
Personal Name(s)
- Aldrich, Eliza Allison Treadwell, 1864-1932
- Aldrich, Jeremiah Marvin, 1864-1935
- Aldrich, Ransom E., 1894-1950
- Aldridge family
- Treadwell family
- Treadwell, Arthur Barlow, b. ca. 1833
- Treadwell, Eliza Allison, 1804-1848
- Treadwell, Timmons Louis, 1800-1870
- Treadwell, William Loundes, 1828-1908
- Withers, E. Q. (Emile Quarles), 1845-1926
- Withers, Lucy Long Treadwell, 1859-1949
Subject(s)
- Agricultural exhibitions — Mississippi — Benton County
- Agriculture — Mississippi — Benton County
- Cattle — Breeding — Mississippi — Benton County
- Cotton — Mississippi — Benton County
- Domestic relations — Mississippi
- Military pensions — United States — Revolution, 1775-1783
- Railroads
- Real estate investment
- Schools — Southern States
- Slaves — Mississippi — Marshall County
- Soldiers — United States — Correspondence
- Universities and colleges — Southern States
- World War, 1914-1918 — Personal narratives, American
