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Guide to the Papers of the McKnight Family, 1831-1974, 1880-1926
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- Title
- McKnight family papers 1831-1974 (bulk 1880-1926)
- Subject
- McKnight family, Chatham College, Chatham College --Students, Presbyterian Church, Presbyterian Church --Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh--Clergy, Presbyterian Church, Presbyterian Church --Missions--China, Presbyterian Church, Presbyterian Church --Missions--India, Princeton University, Princeton University --Students, Smith College, Smith College --Students, Baldwin School, Baldwin School --Students, Lawrenceville SchoolStudents., Banks and banking--Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh, Charities--Pennsylvania--Allegheny County, Steel industry and trade--Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh, Women--Pennsylvania--Sewickley, Women missionaries--China, Women missionaries--India, World War, 1914-1918--Personal narratives, American, Orphanages--Pennsylvania--Allegheny County, Orphans--Pennsylvania--Allegheny County, Presbyterians--Pennsylvania--Allegheny (Pittsburgh), Presbyterians--Pennsylvania--Sewickley, Sunday schools--Pennsylvania--Sewickley, Women--Pennsylvania--Allegheny, Women--Services for, Women--Suffrage, World War, 1914-1918--War work--Pennsylvania--Sewickley, Allegheny (Pa.)--Social life and customs, Sewickley (Pa.)--Social life and customs, Adirondack Mountains (N.Y.)--Description and travel, Cuba--Description and travel, Europe--Description and travel, Jamiaca--Decription and travel, Osborne (Pa.)--Social life and customs, Sewickley (Pa.)--Intellectual life, Sewickley (Pa.)--Social life and customs
- Description
- Personal letters, business correspondence, diaries, financial material, literary manuscripts and typescripts, poetry, leases and other legal documents, and printed ephemerea documenting the lives and experiences of members of the McKnight, Davis and Wilson families of Allegheny, Osborne and Sewickley, Pennsylvania, from 1831 to 1974. The collection also includes minutes, reports, and other archival records of the Protestant Orpahn Asylum of Pittsburgh and Woman's Missionary Society of the Presbyterian Church of Sewickley, Pa. The bulk of the collection concerns Eliza Cochran Wilson McKnight (1860-1926) and describes her marriage with Charles McKnight, relations with her five children, friendship with Philadelphia missionary worker Rachel Lowrie, and attempts to reconcile the demands of family life with her personal intellectual and literary ambitions. Notable items include financial papers of Judge Hugh Davis; letters and other personal papers of his son, Robert Hudman Davis, and his wife, Eliza Cochran Davis; diaries and letters of their daughter, Daisy Davis Wilson, and her husband, Presbyterian minister and educator, Samuel Jennings Wilson; personal and business correspondence of Charles McKnight, a Pittsburgh banker and industrialist; correspondence, diaries, writings, and personal financial papers of his wife, Eliza Cochran Wilson McKnight; and diaries and letters of their daughter., Principal subjects in the collection include the banking and steel industries in Pittsburgh and Sewickley, Pa., charitable and philanthropic activities and women's clubs, orphans and orphanages, descriptions of secondary and undergraduate student life, Sunday School education, women's missionary work in China and India and the experiences of soldiers during World War I., Pittsburgh banker and industrialist Charles McKnight (1863-1926 married Eliza Cochran Wilson (1828-1926) in 1888. Eliza Cochran Wilson McKnight ws the daughter of a Presbyterian minister, Samuel Jennings Wilson (1828-1883) and granddaughter of Allegheny merchant Robert Hudman Davis (1814-1881), who was a son of Judge Hugh Davis (1777-1862), one of the earliest settlers in Allegheny County. Charles McKnight was associated with the First National Band of Sewickley and Western National Bank and president of the Carbon Steel Company. Eliz Cochran Wilson McKnight was active in civic organizations, principally the Woman's Club of Sewickley Valley, and charities, including the Protestant Orphan Asylum of Pittsburgh and Allegheny and Woman's Missionary Society of the Presbyterian Church of Sewickley, Pa., Materials received in six accessions and combined into one body of papers in 1997., Processed MSS #250 Dc8/19/1997 Dk, Inventory available.
- Contributor
- McKnight family., Davis, Eliza Cochran, 1815-1899, Davis, Hugh, 1777-1862, Davis, Robert H. (Robert Hudman), 1814-1881, Knox, Philander C. (Philander Chase), 1853-1921, Lowrie, Rachel, 1861-1957, McKnight, Charles, 1863-1926, McKnight, Eliza Cochran Wilson, 1860-1926, Simmons, Rachel M. (Rachel McKnight), 1889-1979, Wilson, Daisy Davis, 1838-1880, Wilson, Samuel Jennings, 1828-1883, Abbott, William L., Alexander, Harriet K., Baldwin, Mary., Brown, Charles W. (Charles William), 1858-1928, Bryan, Kate P. (Kate Plumer), 1831-1898, Davis, Morrison Swift, 1845?-1919, Davis family, Faris, W.W. William Wallace, 1843-1925, Faust, Frederick DeC. (Frederick DeCourcey)., Harlow, Beth D., Hilliard, H.R. Henry Raymond, b.1890, Holdship, C.F. (Charles Frederick), Holmes, Catharine S., Hukill, Ralph V., Jeffers, W.H., Kitchel, Alice Lloyd., Lowry family, McKnight, Charles, 1826-1881, McKnight, Francis H. (Francis Harlan(, b.1900, McKnight, Charles, 1891-1969, McKnight, Robert Wilson, $$1895-1970., Miller, Jane Davis, 1840-1892, Patterson, Margie., Penrose, Boies, 1860-1921, Reisinger, Clarence., Schwartz, Em. L. (Emma L.), d.1921, Shumaker, Eleanor Baird Wilson McKnight, b. 1897, Simmons, Donald M. (Donald MacLaren), 1889-1961, Smith, Esther Ann., Totten, Louise., Tuthill, Charles Woodward, 1894-1985, Walker, Jane Dill Wilson, 1864-1943, Wardrop, James R., Warfield, Annie K., Watterson, Henry, 1840-1921, Whitehead, Dorothy P., Willard, Rebekah Boggs Davis, 1842-1908, Wilson, D.R., Wilson, Robert D. (Robert Davis), 1860-1890, Wilson, Robert Dick, 1856-1930, Wilson family, Wylie, Jennie C., d.1925, Presbyterian Church of Sewickley, Pa Woman's Missionary Society., Protestant Orphan Asylum of Pittsburgh and Allegheny, United States Army. Infantry, 119th., United States Army. Machine Gun Battalion, 21st., Woman's Club of Sewickley Valley, Carbon Steel Company, Chatham College, First National Bank of Sewickley, Longfellow, Alden and Harlow (Firm), Monday Class, Osborne Mission School, Query Club, State Federation of Pennsylvania Women, Twentieth Century (Pittsburgh, Pa.), Western National Bank (Pittsburgh, Pa.), Western Theological Seminary of the Presbyterian Church, Woods Run Vacation School, Detre Library & Archives, Heinz History Center (depositor)
- Date
- 1831-1974
- Type
- Collection, Text
- Format
- print, manuscript, 51.25 linear ft.
- Identifier
- pitt:US-QQS-MSS250
- Language
- eng
- Relation
- http://digital.library.pitt.edu/cgi-bin/f/findaid/findaid-idx?c=hswpead;cc=hswpead;rgn=main;view=text;didno=US-QQS-MSS250
- Coverage
- Pennsylvania, Pittsburgh, China, India, Pennsylvania, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Sewickley, China, India, Pennsylvania, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, Allegheny (Pittsburgh), Pennsylvania, Sewickley, Pennsylvania, Sewickley, Pennsylvania, Allegheny, Pennsylvania, Sewickley, Allegheny (Pa.), Sewickley (Pa.), Adirondack Mountains (N.Y.), Cuba, Europe, Jamiaca, Osborne (Pa.), Sewickley (Pa.), Sewickley (Pa.)
- Rights
- Copyright Not Evaluated. The copyright and related rights status of this Item has not been evaluated. Please refer to the organization that has made the Item available for more information. You are free to use this Item in any way that is permitted by the copyright and related rights legislation that applies to your use., http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/CNE/1.0/
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