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Collection Title: Maunsell-White Family Papers
Dates: 1800-1888
Identification: M000003
Physical Description: 1.50
Language of Materials:
English
Repository:
Sutro Library, California State Library
1630 Holloway Avenue
5th floor
San Francisco, CA, 94132-4030
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Email: sutro@library.ca.gov
Phone: 415-469-6100
The Maunsell-White family can be traced back to the era of Oliver Cromwell in Ireland in the seventeenth century. Mausell
White Sr. was born near Clonwell, Tipperary county, about 1776. His mother and father died when he was quite young and left
for the United States shortly after.
When he was 13 years old, he settled in New Orleans. He later married Celeste de la Ronde, who was of French descent. Celeste
did not live very long and after her death, Maunsell White married her sister, Heloise. With his first wife, Celeste, he
had one child, a daughter Eliza. With his second wife, Heloise, he had three more children: Anne, Maunsell Jr., and Clara
(Mrs. Carl Kohn).
Maunsell White Sr. was actively engaged in commerce in New Orleans and eventually accumulated an estate of about two million
dollars. He owned a large sugar plantation about 10 miles south of New Orleans with as many as two hundred slaves. Towards
the end of his life, White suffered severe financial losses which diminished his holdings considerable. At the battle of New
Orleans, Maunsell White Sr. was made an aid-de-camp to General Andrew Jackson and thereafter was known as Colonel Maunsell
White. He died in 1863.
Maunsell White Jr. attended Mandeville College in Mandeville, Louisiana and the University of Virginia. He married Bettie
Parker Bradford in 1855. They had six children and one of their sons, Maunsell White III, earned a distinguished reputation
as a metallurgist in the iron and steel industry in the late nineteenth century.
This Collection is indexed under the following controlled access subject terms.
Deer Range Plantation (Plaquemines Parish, La.)
Davis, Jefferson, 1808-1889
Jackson, Andrew, 1767-1845.
Taylor, Zachary, 1784-1850.
Agriculture--Louisiana--History--19th century.
Plantation owners--Louisiana.
Plantations--Louisiana.
Slavery--Louisiana.
United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865
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[Identification of item] Maunsell-White Family Papers,1800-1888, M0003, Sutro Library, California State Library, San Francisco,
Calif.
Maunsell White Collection #2234, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.
Information about related materials is available at http://finding-aids.lib.unc.edu/02234/
Correspondence in box 1 is arranged alphabetically. Box 2 contains misc. family records and box 3 contains photographs.
This collections contains materials pertaining to Maunsell White Sr. and his family up until 1888. Contents include business
letters and records, personal letters, photographs, miscellaous legal documents, and Civil War memorabilia. Highlights include
a handwritten note and hair from Confederate President Jefferson Davis and handwritten letters from United States Presidents
Zachery Taylor and Andrew Jackson.