A Guide to the James R. Brown Papers, 1957-1991 #38643, 43768

Scope and Content

Papers, 1957-1991, of James R. Brown (1917-1993) of Minneapolis, Minnesota, containing his genealogical research on the Brown family, and allied lines of Elledge, Gunnnels, Halley, Isley, Patton, Sandusky, and Shanks. Areas covered include Fairfax County, Virginia, and Indiana, Kentucky, Minnesota, Missouri, Oklahoma, and Wisconsin. There are abstracts and copies of census records, deeds, estate administration records, marriage records and vital statistics, military records, and wills, and also correspondence, family group sheets, genealogical charts and pedigrees, genealogies compiled by others, and published sources. There is also a copy of Century Bombers: The Story of the Bloody Hundredth written by Richard Le Strange, with Brown's assistance, and published in 1989.

Contents List

Series I. Correspondence .

Boxes 1-4

Extent: 4 boxes.

The correspondence contains requests by Brown for records from various libraries and archival repositories, historical societies, and courthouses. There are also letters to and from family members and other researchers, and responses from individuals to queries by Brown that were published in the journal Genealogical Helper.

Arranged chronologically.

Box 1 Folder 1 1957.
Box 1 Folder 2 1958.
Box 1 Folder 3 1959.
Box 1 Folder 4 1960 (January-June).
Box 1 Folder 5 1960 (July-December).
Box 1 Folder 6 1961.
Box 1 Folder 7 1962.
Box 1 Folder 8 1963.
Box 1 Folder 9 1964.
Box 1 Folder 10 1966.
Box 1 Folder 11 1967 (January-June).
Box 1 Folder 12 1967 (July-October).
Box 1 Folder 13 1967 (November-December).
Box 1 Folder 14 1968 (January-June).
Box 1 Folder 15 1968 (July-September).
Box 1 Folder 16 1968 (October-December).
Box 2 Folder 1 1969 (January-June).
Box 2 Folder 2 1969 (July-December).
Box 2 Folder 3 1970 (January-June).
Box 2 Folder 4 1970 (July-September).
Box 2 Folder 5 1970 (October-December).
Box 2 Folder 6 1971 (January-February).
Box 2 Folder 7 1971 (March-July).
Box 2 Folder 8 1971 (August-December).
Box 2 Folder 9 1972 (January-February).
Box 2 Folder 10 1972 (March-April).
Box 2 Folder 11 1972 (May-December).
Box 3 Folder 1 1973 (January-March).
Box 3 Folder 2 1973 (April-December).
Box 3 Folder 3 1974.
Box 3 Folder 4 1975.
Box 3 Folder 5 1976 (January-February).
Box 3 Folder 6 1976 (March-December).
Box 3 Folder 7 1977 (January-April).
Box 3 Folder 8 1977 (May-December).
Box 3 Folder 9 1978 (January-February).
Box 3 Folder 10 1978 (March-December).
Box 3 Folder 11 1979.
Box 3 Folder 12 1980.
Box 4 Folder 1 1981 (January-May).
Box 4 Folder 2 1981 (June-December).
Box 4 Folder 3 1982.
Box 4 Folder 4 1983.
Box 4 Folder 5 1984.
Box 4 Folder 6 1985.
Box 4 Folder 7 1986.
Box 4 Folder 8 1987.
Box 4 Folder 9 1988.
Box 4 Folder 10 1989.
Box 4 Folder 11 1990.
Box 4 Folder 12 1991.
Box 4 Folder 13
Allen, Patricia Joan Kirchherr.
Box 4 Folder 14-15
May, George S.
Box 4 Folder 16-17
Rutherford, Kenneth.

Series II. Family Name Files .

Boxes 5-11

Extent: 7 boxes.

The family name files include Brown's research notes, and copies and abstracts of census records, deeds, estate administration records, marriage records and vital statistics, military records, and wills, and also correspondence, family group sheets, genealogical charts and pedigrees, genealogies compiled by others, and published sources. There is also a copy of Century Bombers: The Story of the Bloody Hundredth written by Richard Le Strange, with Brown's assistance, and published in 1989.

Arranged alphabetically.

Box 5 Folder 1
Aldridge.
Box 5 Folder 2
Ancestor Charts - Minnesota Historical Society.
Box 5 Folder 3
"Ancestry of James Shanks of Huron County, Ohio" by Harry S. Blaine.
Box 5 Folder 4
"And Then There Were Collinsons" by Irma S. Harper.
Box 5 Folder 5
Barnes.
Box 5 Folder 6
Boone.
Box 5 Folder 7
Bowman.
Box 5 Folder 8-10
Brown.
Box 5 Folder 11-12
Brown, Alexander (1809-1896).
Box 6 Folder n/a
Century Bombers: The Story of the Bloody Hundredth .
Box Oversize PP Box 105
Charts - Oversize.
Box 6 Folder 1
Coe.
Box 6 Folder 2
"Cohee and Collison" by Hilda Chance.
Box 6 Folder 3
Collison.
Box 6 Folder 4
Computer Discs.
Box 6 Folder 5
Corwin.
Box 6 Folder 6
Culver.
Box 6 Folder 7
Demarest.
Box 6 Folder 8
Dillon.
Box 6 Folder 9
Dinwiddie.
Box 6 Folder 10
Dobbins.
Box 6 Folder 11
Doty.
Box 6 Folder 12
Dyer.
Box 6 Folder 13-15
Elledge.
Box 6 Folder 16
Estate of Mary Holley (Macon County, MO).
Box 6 Folder 17-18
Family Group Sheets - Various Families.
Box 7 Folder 1
"Genealogy of the Shanks Family in America" by Maj. Gen. David C. Shanks.
Box 7 Folder 2
Gevedon.
Box 7 Folder 3-4
Griffin.
Box 7 Folder 5
Guffey.
Box 7 Folder 6-12
Gunnels.
Box 7 Folder 13-16
Halley.
Box 8 Folder 1
Halley.
Box 8 Folder 2
Halley/Holley.
Box 8 Folder 3
Halley (Linda Kay Hocker).
Box 8 Folder 4
Halley-Simpson.
Box 8 Folder 5
Halliburton.
Box 8 Folder 6
Hawley/Halley/Holley (Ann H. Mack).
Box 8 Folder 7
Hopps-Nason.
Box 8 Folder 8
Inskeep.
Box 8 Folder 9-13
Isley.
Box 8 Folder 14
"James Shanks Memorial" by Sylvia Richards.
Box 8 Folder 15-16
Johnson.
Box 8 Folder 17
Johnston.
Box 9 Folder 1
Kelley.
Box 9 Folder 2
Marshall-Saltzgiver-Hansen.
Box 9 Folder 3
McClure.
Box 9 Folder 4-5
Miller.
Box 9 Folder 6
Minner.
Box 9 Folder 7
Monroe County, OH - History.
Box 9 Folder 8-9
Monroe County, OH Map - Search Requests.
Box 9 Folder 10
Nunnely.
Box 9 Folder 11-13
Patton.
Box 9 Folder 14
Peyton.
Box 9 Folder 15
Photographs.
Box 9 Folder 16
Pierson.
Box 9 Folder 17
Problem Files.
Box 9 Folder 18
Roach.
Box 9 Folder 19
Rosenbush.
Box 9 Folder 20
Ross.
Box 9 Folder 21
Sadowski.
Box 9 Folder 22-24
Sandusky.
Box 10 Folder 1-2
Sandusky.
Box 10 Folder 3
Schnepp.
Box 10 Folder 4-5
Schnepp/Snepp.
Box 10 Folder 6-15
Shanks.
Box 11 Folder 1
Sharp.
Box 11 Folder 2
"Some Descendants of James Halley, Sr. and Elizabeth Simpson".
Box 11 Folder 3
"Some Early Settlers of the St. Croix Valley" by Mary J. Williams.
Box 11 Folder 4
Title Abstracts - Lindsay, Garvin County, OK.