Guide to the Maunsell-White Family Papers
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Guide to the Maunsell-White Family Papers
Sutro Library, California State Library
Overview of the Collection
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
URL: http://www.library.ca.gov/about/sutro_main.html
Email: sutro@library.ca.gov
Phone: 415-469-6100
Administrative History:
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.
Access Terms
This Collection is indexed under the following controlled access subject terms.
Geographic Name:
Deer Range Plantation (Plaquemines Parish, La.)
Personal Name:
Davis, Jefferson, 1808-1889
Jackson, Andrew, 1767-1845.
Taylor, Zachary, 1784-1850.
Topical Term:
Agriculture--Louisiana--History--19th century.
Plantation owners--Louisiana.
Plantations--Louisiana.
Slavery--Louisiana.
United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865
Administrative Information
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Preferred Citation:
[Identification of item] Maunsell-White Family Papers,1800-1888, M0003, Sutro Library, California State Library, San Francisco,
Calif.
Related Materials:
Maunsell White Collection #2234, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.
Information about related materials is available at http://finding-aids.lib.unc.edu/02234/
Arrangement of Materials:
Correspondence in box 1 is arranged alphabetically. Box 2 contains misc. family records and box 3 contains photographs.
Scope and Contents
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.
Box 1, Folder 2
Anderson, Jonathan G.
1862
Box 1, Folder 4
Anderson, Major General Samuel Read
1862
Box 1, Folder 5
Betsy, Miss. [no last name]
[n.d.]
Box 1, Folder 7
Brewster, Anne M. H.
[n.d.]
Box 1, Folder 9
Cleburne, Patrick Ronayne
1862
Box 1, Folder 10
Colquhoun, George W.
1844
Box 1, Folder 13
Fannie [no last name]
[n.d.]
Box 1, Folder 14
Flora [no last name]
[n.d.]
Box 1, Folder 15
Forrest, General Nathaniel Bedford
1862
Box 1, Folder 16
French, Brigadier General Samuel Gibbs
1862
Box 1, Folder 18
Heath, Jesse H.
1850, 1854, 1867
Box 1, Folder 21
Holmes, Major General Theophilus Hunter
1862
Box 1, Folder 23
Jackson, Andrew
1832, 1837
Box 1, Folder 28
Matie [?] [no last name]
[n.d.]
Box 1, Folder 31
Maunsell, Reverend William
1845, 1846, 1848, 1850
Box 1, Folder 35
Negley, Brigadier General James S.
1862
Box 1, Folder 36
Ryan, Clotilde
1854, 1855, 1859
Box 1, Folder 42
Walker, Brigadier General John G.
1862
Box 1, Folder 47
White, Maunsell, Sr.
1842-1849
Box 1, Folder 48
White, Maunsell, Sr.
1850-1858
Box 1, Folder 49
White, Maunsell, Sr.
1860-1862
Box 1, Folder 51
Correspondence, illegible and fragments of communications
1832
Box 2, Folder 2
Envelopes addressed to various persons
Box 2, Folder 3
Various checks payable to Elliot, Bernap & Babcock
Box 2, Folder 4
Twenty-nine calling cards of visitors to Miss Bettie Bradford
Box 2, Folder 5
Jonathan G. Anderson - certificate of membership in Odd Fellow Lodge
Box 2, Folder 6
Decorated floral designs of letters "C" and "E"
Box 2, Folder 7
Report of progress of Civil War from Confederate side
Box 2, Folder 9
Journal of Maunsell White Jr.
1849, 1851
Box 2, Folder 10
Account book, probably Maunsell White Jr.
1871-1888
Box 2, Folder 11
"Album of Pearls" common place book of Anna B. Miles
1866-1882
Box 3, Folder 1
Photographs (2) of Artemis Smith "Mammy" to Maunsell White Jr's children
Box 3, Folder 3
Engraving from a daguerreotype of Maunsell White
Box 3, Folder 5
Bettie Porter Bradford White (2), wife of Maunsell White Jr
Box 3, Folder 7
Photo and biographical sketch of Mrs. Eliza Bradford Challor
Box 3, Folder 9
Lu M. White, daughter of Maunsell White Jr. and Bettie Bradford
Box 3, Folder 10
Man in locket case (unidentified) yellow tape M W3
Box 3, Folder 11
Woman in locket case (unidentified) yellow tape
Box 3, Folder 12
Man in locket case (unidentified) yellow tape M W4
Box 3, Folder 13
Woman in locket case (unidentified) yellow tape M W5
Box 3, Folder 14
Man in locket case (unidentified) yellow tape M W6
Box 3, Folder 15
Woman in locket case (unidentified) yellow tape M W9
Box 3, Folder 16
Woman in locket case (unidentified) yellow tape M W10
Box 3, Folder 18
Various women (unidentified)