Special Collections Finding Aids
Publication Date
2021
Abstract
This collection contains correspondence from the Snowden family, who were a prominent family in Memphis, TN, during the late 1800s and early 1900s. There is also correspondence between the Snowdens and extended relations in the Cairns, Fargason, and Ward families. In addition, the collection consists of photographs, documents, publications, scrapbooks, recipe books, blueprints, personal artwork, diaries, and newspaper clippings that give a glimpse into the private lives of the Snowden family. These generations of Snowden family members were descendants from: John Overton (1766-1833), a founder of the city of Memphis, lawyer, and advisor to Andrew Jackson; Robert Campbell Brinkley (1816-1878), a Memphis businessman and attorney; John Bayard Snowden (1808-1863), a Nashville, TN, businessman and dry goods merchant; and Robert Bogardus (1771-1841), a Revolutionary War General.
Source Collection
Special Collections Department, University of Memphis Libraries
Keywords
Blueprints--1900-1920.; Cairns, Bayard S., 1875-1934.; Cairns, Douglas W., 1877-1947.; Cairns, Frederick A., 1820-1879.; Cairns, Mary J., 1846-1930.; Confederate Veterans.; Correspondence.; Fargason, Annie Brinkley Snowden, 1878-1924.; Fargason family.; Genealogy.; Grace-St. Luke's Episcopal Church (Memphis, Tenn.); Newspaper clippings.; Photographs.; Playbills--New York (State)--New York.; Recipes.; St. Mary’s on the Mountain (Sewanee, Tenn.); Snowden, Annie Overton Brinkley, 1845-1923.; Snowden, Hughetta, 1848-1926.; Snowden, John Bayard, 1808-1863.; Snowden, Robert Bogardus, 1836-1909.; Snowden family.; Twiford, Elizabeth W., 1878-1953.; Ward, Annie Snowden Fargason, 1907-1974.; Ward, Frank Watson Ward III, 1927-1992.; Ward family.; White Motor Company--Photographs.
Recommended Citation
"MSS0065. R.B. Snowden family papers finding aid" (2021). Special Collections Finding Aids. 112.
https://digitalcommons.memphis.edu/speccoll-findingaids/112
Date
2025 February
mss.0065. R. B. Snowden family papers, correspondence_annotated inventory
