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A letter from A.E. McEwento Robert McEwenin October 1856 discusses sale of a slave and the possible victory of James Buchananin the upcoming election. Several letters between Kitty McEwenand her father Robert McEwenduring her trip north in 1858; those of April 26 and 29, 1858 describe northern cities.\u003c/p\u003e","label":"Abstract Or Scope"}},"breadcrumbs":{"id":"https://arvasarchive.org/catalog/viu_viu00029_c02#breadcrumbs","type":"document_value","attributes":{"value":{"ref_ssi":"viu_viu00029_c02","ref_ssm":["viu_viu00029_c02"],"id":"viu_viu00029_c02","ead_ssi":"viu_viu00029","_root_":"viu_viu00029","_nest_parent_":"viu_viu00029","parent_ssi":"viu_viu00029","parent_ssim":["Coleman, Twigg, McEwen, and Houston\n Family Papers \n 1814-1945"],"parent_ids_ssim":["viu_viu00029"],"title_filing_ssi":"Correspondence of the McEwen\n               family","title_ssm":["Correspondence of the McEwen\n family"],"title_tesim":["Correspondence of the McEwen\n family"],"normalized_title_ssm":["Correspondence of the McEwen\n family, 1814/1903"],"text":["Correspondence of the McEwen\n family, 1814/1903","Coleman, Twigg, McEwen, and Houston\n Family Papers \n 1814-1945","Robert McEwen","Hetty McEwen","A.E. McEwen","James Buchanan","Kitty McEwen","Of interest are several letters from \n               Robert McEwento \n               Hetty McEwenwritten during business\n               trips in the 1810s and 1820s; letters from various\n               relatives and friends to Hetty and her daughters during\n               the 1820s and 1830s. A letter from \n               A.E. McEwento \n               Robert McEwenin October 1856\n               discusses sale of a slave and the possible victory of \n               James Buchananin the upcoming\n               election. Several letters between \n               Kitty McEwenand her father \n               Robert McEwenduring her trip north\n               in 1858; those of April 26 and 29, 1858 describe\n               northern cities."],"parent_unittitles_ssm":["Coleman, Twigg, McEwen, and Houston\n Family Papers \n 1814-1945"],"parent_unittitles_tesim":["Coleman, Twigg, McEwen, and Houston\n Family Papers \n 1814-1945"],"normalized_date_ssm":["1814/1903"],"unitdate_other_ssim":["1814-1903, n.d."],"level_ssm":["Item"],"level_ssim":["Item"],"component_level_isim":[1],"sort_isi":2,"repository_ssim":["University of Virginia, Special Collections Dept."],"collection_ssim":["Coleman, Twigg, McEwen, and Houston\n Family Papers \n 1814-1945"],"extent_ssm":["(2 folders)"],"extent_tesim":["(2 folders)"],"has_online_content_ssim":["false"],"child_component_count_isi":0,"persname_ssim":["Robert McEwen","Hetty McEwen","A.E. McEwen","James Buchanan","Kitty McEwen"],"names_ssim":["Robert McEwen","Hetty McEwen","A.E. 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McEwen\u003c/persname\u003eto \n               \u003cpersname\u003eRobert McEwen\u003c/persname\u003ein October 1856\n               discusses sale of a slave and the possible victory of \n               \u003cpersname\u003eJames Buchanan\u003c/persname\u003ein the upcoming\n               election. Several letters between \n               \u003cpersname\u003eKitty McEwen\u003c/persname\u003eand her father \n               \u003cpersname\u003eRobert McEwen\u003c/persname\u003eduring her trip north\n               in 1858; those of April 26 and 29, 1858 describe\n               northern cities.\u003c/p\u003e\n        "],"scopecontent_tesim":["Of interest are several letters from \n               Robert McEwento \n               Hetty McEwenwritten during business\n               trips in the 1810s and 1820s; letters from various\n               relatives and friends to Hetty and her daughters during\n               the 1820s and 1830s. A letter from \n               A.E. McEwento \n               Robert McEwenin October 1856\n               discusses sale of a slave and the possible victory of \n               James Buchananin the upcoming\n               election. Several letters between \n               Kitty McEwenand her father \n               Robert McEwenduring her trip north\n               in 1858; those of April 26 and 29, 1858 describe\n               northern cities."],"_nest_path_":"/components#1","timestamp":"2026-07-23T21:42:26.833Z","collection":{"numFound":1,"start":0,"numFoundExact":true,"docs":[{"id":"viu_viu00029","ead_ssi":"viu_viu00029","_root_":"viu_viu00029","_nest_parent_":"viu_viu00029","ead_source_url_ssi":"data/uva-sc/viu00029.xml","title_ssm":["Coleman, Twigg, McEwen, and Houston\n Family Papers \n 1814-1945"],"title_tesim":["Coleman, Twigg, McEwen, and Houston\n Family Papers \n 1814-1945"],"normalized_title_ssm":["Coleman, Twigg, McEwen, and Houston\n Family Papers \n 1814-1945"],"text":["Coleman, Twigg, McEwen, and Houston\n Family Papers \n 1814-1945","1794","290 items","This collection of 290 items, 1814-1945, contains material\n         pertaining to several Scotch-Irish families from which the\n         donor \n         Warren Coleman,M.D. is descended. The\n         collection chiefly revolves around \n         Robert Houston McEwen(1790-1868) and his\n         wife \n         Henrietta \"Hetty\" Montgomery Kennedy\n         McEwen(1796-1881).","Robert H. McEwen's and \n         Hetty Kennedy's families moved from \n         Washington County, Virginiato the \n         Tennesseeterritory in the late eighteenth\n         century. His father, a surgeon in the \n         Continental Armyduring the Revolutionary\n         War, died when Robert was quite young, so that Robert was\n         reared by his mother and became very close to her family, the \n         Houston Family. Hetty was the daughter of \n         Robert Campbell Kennedy, who pioneered in\n         Tennessee's \n         Lincoln County. Kennedy became a very\n         prosperous farmer and miller, and a good friend of \n         Andrew Jackson. Both \n         Robert McEwenand \n         Hetty Kennedy's older brother \n         William Kennedyjoined the \n         United States Armyto fight in the Creek\n         War Campaign of the War of 1812. They participated in the\n         Battle of \n         Horseshoe Bend, and McEwen, a lieutenant,\n         drew a map of the battle the morning after their victory (the\n         original is preserved in the \n         Library of Congress).","After they were mustered out in May 1814, McEwen visited\n         Kennedy at his family's home and there met his friend's\n         younger sister Hetty. McEwen and \n         Hetty Kennedywere married the next year\n         and set up housekeeping in \n         Fayetteville, Tennessee, where McEwen\n         owned a dry goods store, among whose customers were many\n         members of the Cherokee nation. In 1828 the McEwens moved to \n         Nashville, Tennesseein order to provide\n         their children with better schooling and more cultural\n         activities. The couple had ten children, seven of whom lived\n         past infancy. In \n         Nashville, McEwen opened another dry\n         goods store which proved very successful. In 1836 the \n         Tennessee State Legislatureelected him\n         Superintendent of Public Schools, a position he held for four\n         years. After he left government service, he ran the collection\n         service for \n         Eastern Merchants, Brokers, and\n         Bankersfor the rest of his working life.","The McEwens were a well-known and prosperous family; their\n         sons went to college and their daughters married professional\n         men. Their youngest daughter \n         \"Kitty\" McEwenwas sent on trips north and\n         then to \n         Europefor her health. She met a young\n         physician, \n         John Scott Coleman, from \n         Augusta, Georgia, in the party on this\n         tour; they were subsequently married in 1867. Dr. and Mrs.\n         Coleman were the parents of \n         Warren Coleman, the donor.","The family was also known for its piety and patriotism.\n         They were devout Presbyterians, with McEwen serving as an\n         elder for thirty years. Politically they were \n         Whigswho despised the \n         Democratic party. Although they had\n         African-American servants they vehemently opposed the breakup\n         of the Union in the 1860s. Throughout the war \n         Hetty McEweninsisted on flying a\n         hand-made Union flag from her roof. After Union troops\n         captured the city in 1862, her flag was replaced by a silk\n         flag given by the Federal Commander in respect for her\n         bravery. In the postwar period this incident became part of\n         local legend and poems were written to commemorate \"Hetty's\n         brave deed.\"","The McEwen offspring grew up to found long-lived and\n         similarly prosperous families who revered their ancestors and\n         cared for the family heirlooms. Many of the family treasures\n         had come to \n         Kitty McEwen Coleman, who willed them to\n         her son Warren when she died in 1929. At that time the McEwen\n         descendents, led by Dr. Coleman, collectively decided that\n         their family papers and heirlooms of historical interest\n         should be made accessible to the public and donated them to\n         various archives and museums. Among the most interesting were\n         the original map of the Battle of \n         Horseshoe Bend, and several items\n         pertaining to the War of \n         TexasIndependence (including General \n         Santa Anna's jewelled saddle) given to \n         Robert McEwenby his first cousin \n         Sam Houston.","The collection is valuable for the light it sheds on\n         pioneer and early nineteenth century life in the upper South.\n         The folders of letters and memoirs are probably the most\n         interesting and entertaining items, detailing domestic and\n         social life, and the genealogical materials also record family\n         and thus local history of \n         Nashvilleand its residents. The travel\n         journal kept by \n         Kitty McEwen Colemanon her 1859 European\n         tour is an excellent source for European as well as American\n         social history, and the account of the voyage home is more\n         harrowing than fiction could be.","University of Virginia. Library. Special\n            Collections Dept.","Alderman Library","Continental Army","United States Army","Library of Congress","Nashville, Tennessee","Tennessee State Legislature","Eastern Merchants, Brokers, and\n         Bankers","Whigs","Democratic party","Princeton University","William and Mary","Tennessee Historical Society","Princeton Library","Smithsonian Institution","Crystal Palace","Houston Family","McEwen Family","Edmistons","Twiggs family","Warren Coleman","Warren Coleman,","Robert Houston McEwen","Henrietta \"Hetty\" Montgomery Kennedy\n         McEwen","Robert H. 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Special\n            Collections Dept.","Alderman Library","Continental Army","United States Army","Library of Congress","Nashville, Tennessee","Tennessee State Legislature","Eastern Merchants, Brokers, and\n         Bankers","Whigs","Democratic party","Princeton University","William and Mary","Tennessee Historical Society","Princeton Library","Smithsonian Institution","Crystal Palace"],"creator_famname_ssim":["Houston Family","McEwen Family","Edmistons","Twiggs family"],"creators_ssim":["Warren Coleman","Warren Coleman,","Robert Houston McEwen","Henrietta \"Hetty\" Montgomery Kennedy\n         McEwen","Robert H. McEwen","Hetty Kennedy","Robert Campbell Kennedy","Andrew Jackson","Robert McEwen","William Kennedy","\"Kitty\" McEwen","John Scott Coleman","Hetty McEwen","Kitty McEwen Coleman","Santa Anna","Sam Houston","Archibald MacLeish","Andrew Jackson Houston","A.E. 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Special\n            Collections Dept.","Alderman Library","Continental Army","United States Army","Library of Congress","Nashville, Tennessee","Tennessee State Legislature","Eastern Merchants, Brokers, and\n         Bankers","Whigs","Democratic party","Princeton University","William and Mary","Tennessee Historical Society","Princeton Library","Smithsonian Institution","Crystal Palace","Houston Family","McEwen Family","Edmistons","Twiggs family"],"acqinfo_ssim":["The material in this collection (# \n            1794) was given to \n            Alderman Libraryby \n            Warren Coleman, M.D., on November 24,\n            1943."],"has_online_content_ssim":["false"],"physdesc_tesim":["290 items"],"scopecontent_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eThis collection of 290 items, 1814-1945, contains material\n         pertaining to several Scotch-Irish families from which the\n         donor \n         \u003cpersname\u003eWarren Coleman,\u003c/persname\u003eM.D. is descended. The\n         collection chiefly revolves around \n         \u003cpersname\u003eRobert Houston McEwen\u003c/persname\u003e(1790-1868) and his\n         wife \n         \u003cpersname\u003eHenrietta \"Hetty\" Montgomery Kennedy\n         McEwen\u003c/persname\u003e(1796-1881).\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003e\u003cpersname\u003eRobert H. McEwen\u003c/persname\u003e's and \n         \u003cpersname\u003eHetty Kennedy\u003c/persname\u003e's families moved from \n         \u003cgeogname\u003eWashington County, Virginia\u003c/geogname\u003eto the \n         \u003cgeogname\u003eTennessee\u003c/geogname\u003eterritory in the late eighteenth\n         century. His father, a surgeon in the \n         \u003ccorpname\u003eContinental Army\u003c/corpname\u003eduring the Revolutionary\n         War, died when Robert was quite young, so that Robert was\n         reared by his mother and became very close to her family, the \n         \u003cfamname\u003eHouston Family\u003c/famname\u003e. Hetty was the daughter of \n         \u003cpersname\u003eRobert Campbell Kennedy\u003c/persname\u003e, who pioneered in\n         \u003cgeogname\u003eTennessee\u003c/geogname\u003e's \n         \u003cgeogname\u003eLincoln County\u003c/geogname\u003e. Kennedy became a very\n         prosperous farmer and miller, and a good friend of \n         \u003cpersname\u003eAndrew Jackson\u003c/persname\u003e. Both \n         \u003cpersname\u003eRobert McEwen\u003c/persname\u003eand \n         \u003cpersname\u003eHetty Kennedy\u003c/persname\u003e's older brother \n         \u003cpersname\u003eWilliam Kennedy\u003c/persname\u003ejoined the \n         \u003ccorpname\u003eUnited States Army\u003c/corpname\u003eto fight in the Creek\n         War Campaign of the War of 1812. They participated in the\n         Battle of \n         \u003cgeogname\u003eHorseshoe Bend\u003c/geogname\u003e, and McEwen, a lieutenant,\n         drew a map of the battle the morning after their victory (the\n         original is preserved in the \n         \u003ccorpname\u003eLibrary of Congress\u003c/corpname\u003e).\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eAfter they were mustered out in May 1814, McEwen visited\n         Kennedy at his family's home and there met his friend's\n         younger sister Hetty. McEwen and \n         \u003cpersname\u003eHetty Kennedy\u003c/persname\u003ewere married the next year\n         and set up housekeeping in \n         \u003cgeogname\u003eFayetteville, Tennessee\u003c/geogname\u003e, where McEwen\n         owned a dry goods store, among whose customers were many\n         members of the Cherokee nation. In 1828 the McEwens moved to \n         \u003ccorpname\u003eNashville, Tennessee\u003c/corpname\u003ein order to provide\n         their children with better schooling and more cultural\n         activities. The couple had ten children, seven of whom lived\n         past infancy. In \n         \u003cgeogname\u003eNashville\u003c/geogname\u003e, McEwen opened another dry\n         goods store which proved very successful. In 1836 the \n         \u003ccorpname\u003eTennessee State Legislature\u003c/corpname\u003eelected him\n         Superintendent of Public Schools, a position he held for four\n         years. After he left government service, he ran the collection\n         service for \n         \u003ccorpname\u003eEastern Merchants, Brokers, and\n         Bankers\u003c/corpname\u003efor the rest of his working life.\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eThe McEwens were a well-known and prosperous family; their\n         sons went to college and their daughters married professional\n         men. Their youngest daughter \n         \u003cpersname\u003e\"Kitty\" McEwen\u003c/persname\u003ewas sent on trips north and\n         then to \n         \u003cgeogname\u003eEurope\u003c/geogname\u003efor her health. She met a young\n         physician, \n         \u003cpersname\u003eJohn Scott Coleman\u003c/persname\u003e, from \n         \u003cgeogname\u003eAugusta, Georgia\u003c/geogname\u003e, in the party on this\n         tour; they were subsequently married in 1867. Dr. and Mrs.\n         Coleman were the parents of \n         \u003cpersname\u003eWarren Coleman\u003c/persname\u003e, the donor.\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eThe family was also known for its piety and patriotism.\n         They were devout Presbyterians, with McEwen serving as an\n         elder for thirty years. Politically they were \n         \u003ccorpname\u003eWhigs\u003c/corpname\u003ewho despised the \n         \u003ccorpname\u003eDemocratic party\u003c/corpname\u003e. Although they had\n         African-American servants they vehemently opposed the breakup\n         of the Union in the 1860s. Throughout the war \n         \u003cpersname\u003eHetty McEwen\u003c/persname\u003einsisted on flying a\n         hand-made Union flag from her roof. After Union troops\n         captured the city in 1862, her flag was replaced by a silk\n         flag given by the Federal Commander in respect for her\n         bravery. In the postwar period this incident became part of\n         local legend and poems were written to commemorate \"Hetty's\n         brave deed.\"\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eThe McEwen offspring grew up to found long-lived and\n         similarly prosperous families who revered their ancestors and\n         cared for the family heirlooms. Many of the family treasures\n         had come to \n         \u003cpersname\u003eKitty McEwen Coleman\u003c/persname\u003e, who willed them to\n         her son Warren when she died in 1929. At that time the McEwen\n         descendents, led by Dr. Coleman, collectively decided that\n         their family papers and heirlooms of historical interest\n         should be made accessible to the public and donated them to\n         various archives and museums. Among the most interesting were\n         the original map of the Battle of \n         \u003cgeogname\u003eHorseshoe Bend\u003c/geogname\u003e, and several items\n         pertaining to the War of \n         \u003cgeogname\u003eTexas\u003c/geogname\u003eIndependence (including General \n         \u003cpersname\u003eSanta Anna\u003c/persname\u003e's jewelled saddle) given to \n         \u003cpersname\u003eRobert McEwen\u003c/persname\u003eby his first cousin \n         \u003cpersname\u003eSam Houston\u003c/persname\u003e.\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eThe collection is valuable for the light it sheds on\n         pioneer and early nineteenth century life in the upper South.\n         The folders of letters and memoirs are probably the most\n         interesting and entertaining items, detailing domestic and\n         social life, and the genealogical materials also record family\n         and thus local history of \n         \u003cgeogname\u003eNashville\u003c/geogname\u003eand its residents. The travel\n         journal kept by \n         \u003cpersname\u003eKitty McEwen Coleman\u003c/persname\u003eon her 1859 European\n         tour is an excellent source for European as well as American\n         social history, and the account of the voyage home is more\n         harrowing than fiction could be.\u003c/p\u003e\n    "],"scopecontent_heading_ssm":["Scope and Content"],"scopecontent_tesim":["This collection of 290 items, 1814-1945, contains material\n         pertaining to several Scotch-Irish families from which the\n         donor \n         Warren Coleman,M.D. is descended. The\n         collection chiefly revolves around \n         Robert Houston McEwen(1790-1868) and his\n         wife \n         Henrietta \"Hetty\" Montgomery Kennedy\n         McEwen(1796-1881).","Robert H. McEwen's and \n         Hetty Kennedy's families moved from \n         Washington County, Virginiato the \n         Tennesseeterritory in the late eighteenth\n         century. His father, a surgeon in the \n         Continental Armyduring the Revolutionary\n         War, died when Robert was quite young, so that Robert was\n         reared by his mother and became very close to her family, the \n         Houston Family. Hetty was the daughter of \n         Robert Campbell Kennedy, who pioneered in\n         Tennessee's \n         Lincoln County. Kennedy became a very\n         prosperous farmer and miller, and a good friend of \n         Andrew Jackson. Both \n         Robert McEwenand \n         Hetty Kennedy's older brother \n         William Kennedyjoined the \n         United States Armyto fight in the Creek\n         War Campaign of the War of 1812. They participated in the\n         Battle of \n         Horseshoe Bend, and McEwen, a lieutenant,\n         drew a map of the battle the morning after their victory (the\n         original is preserved in the \n         Library of Congress).","After they were mustered out in May 1814, McEwen visited\n         Kennedy at his family's home and there met his friend's\n         younger sister Hetty. McEwen and \n         Hetty Kennedywere married the next year\n         and set up housekeeping in \n         Fayetteville, Tennessee, where McEwen\n         owned a dry goods store, among whose customers were many\n         members of the Cherokee nation. In 1828 the McEwens moved to \n         Nashville, Tennesseein order to provide\n         their children with better schooling and more cultural\n         activities. The couple had ten children, seven of whom lived\n         past infancy. In \n         Nashville, McEwen opened another dry\n         goods store which proved very successful. In 1836 the \n         Tennessee State Legislatureelected him\n         Superintendent of Public Schools, a position he held for four\n         years. After he left government service, he ran the collection\n         service for \n         Eastern Merchants, Brokers, and\n         Bankersfor the rest of his working life.","The McEwens were a well-known and prosperous family; their\n         sons went to college and their daughters married professional\n         men. Their youngest daughter \n         \"Kitty\" McEwenwas sent on trips north and\n         then to \n         Europefor her health. She met a young\n         physician, \n         John Scott Coleman, from \n         Augusta, Georgia, in the party on this\n         tour; they were subsequently married in 1867. 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