Scope and Contents The Elder Family Papers consist primarily of correspondence to Francis William Elder (1807-1889), a Baltimore merchant, and his wife, Matilda Winchester Elder. The correspondence concerns various aspects of nineteenth century American Catholicism and Southern history. The collection includes material on Mt. St. Mary's Seminary and St. Joseph's Academy in Emittsburg, Maryland, and correspondence from American Catholic bishops William H. Elder, Thomas S. Byrne, Martin John Spalding, and John...

Collection-level Scope and Content Note The Helen King Boyer Collection includes the personal papers of Zachariah T. Miller (1847-1913), who was attached to the 61st Ohio Volunteer Infantry Regiment under General Carl Schurz during the American Civil War and later practiced homeopathic medicine in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; his daughter Louise Miller Boyer (1890-1976), a noted artist and pioneer screenwriter at Metro Pictures Corporation in the New York City film industry in 1918; his granddaughter Helen King Boyer (b. 1919),...