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Descriptive Summary of the Collection
Biography of Julia Butler Newberry
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Inventory of the Julia Butler Newberry and Family Papers, 1800-1921
Machine-readable finding aid encoded by Lisa Janssen, 2004. ©2004. |
Descriptive Summary of the Collection |
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| Collector | Slingluff, Jesse |
| Title | Julia Butler Newberry and Family Papers |
| Dates | 1800-1921 |
| Extent | .2 cubic ft. (1 box) |
| Abstract | Miscellaneous material relating to Julia Butler Newberry and her family. Contains original letters of Julia B. Newberry and her immediate family, 1830-1880, and photocopies of correspondence of the Butler, Clapp and Devereux families. Also, financial correspondence, a diary of Mary B. Devereux (photocopy), a small unknown diary, genealogical research on the Butler, Devereux, Kernan families, a few receipts and a photocopy of an 1877 probate record for the estate of Walter L. Newberry. |
| Language | Materials are in English. |
| Repository | Newberry Library, Roger and Julie Baskes Department of Special Collections |
| Collection Call Number | Midwest MS Newberry J |
| Collection Stack Location | 3a |
Administrative Information
Cite As
Julia Butler Newberry and Family Papers, Midwest Manuscript Collection, The Newberry Library, Chicago.
Provenance
Gift of Jesse Slingluff, a descendent of a cousin of Julia Butler Newberry, 1975
Processed by
Virginia H. Smith, 2003
Access
The Julia Butler Newberry and Family Papers are open for research in the Special Collections Reading Room; 5 folders at a time maximum (Priority II).
Ownership and Literary Rights
The Julia Butler Newberry and Family Papers are the physical property of the Newberry Library. Copyright may belong to the authors or their legal heirs or assigns. For permission to publish or reproduce any materials from this collection, contact the Roger and Julie Baskes Department of Special Collections.
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Biography of Julia Butler Newberry
Julia Butler Newberry was born Julia Butler Clapp in 1818. She became Julia Butler Newberry when she married Walter Loomis Newberry, a prominent Chicago businessman.
The Newberrys had six children, but four sons died as infants and only two daughters, Julia Rosa and Mary Louisa survived to adulthood. The family was extremely wealthy and so they not only resided in lavish style in Chicago, but were able to travel and live intermittently in Europe. Walter Newberry died on shipboard in 1868, his daughters died in 1874 and 1876, and Julia Butler Newberry died in Paris in 1885. By the terms of his will, as there were no direct heirs, half of Walter Newberry's fortune went to establish a free reference library on the north side of Chicago, the Newberry Library.
Among Julia Butler Newberry's immediate family (other than her husband and daughters) were her father, James Clapp, brothers Benjamin C. Butler (his name changed from Benjamin C. Clapp), Nicholas Devereux Clapp and James Clapp, Jr., aunts Mary Butler Devereux and Elizabeth Butler, and uncle John Clapp. Her relatives and descendents also included members of the Kernan, Mygatt, and Slingluff families.
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Scope and Content of the Collection
Small collection of letters relating to Julia B. Newberry and her relatives, 1832-1880 and also undated, plus letters of credit from Julia's bankers, 1872-1885. There is one letter from Julia's father, James Clapp, to Henry R. Mygatt in 1832, in which he discusses a conversation with President Jackson, the political climate in Washington, and his opinion on the threat of nullification in the south. A second letter from Clapp to Mygatt in 1852 contains Clapp's thoughts on the Wilmot Proviso and the future of the Union. The rest of the collection contains photocopies of a transcription of Mary Butler Devereux's diary of the mid-nineteenth century, a tiny scant diary kept by unknown persons (1876, 1903), a photocopy of genealogical research on the Butler, Devereux, Kernan families (1921), and a photocopy of Probate Court record in 1877 regarding Walter L. Newberry's estate.
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Arrangement
Arranged alphabetically by type of material.
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Selected Search Terms
The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the Newberry Library's public catalog. Researchers desiring additional materials on a particular topic should search the catalog using these headings.
Names
- Butler family
- Clapp family
- Clapp, James, 1785-1854
- Devereaux family
- Kernan family
- Newberry, Julia Butler Clapp, 1818-1885
- Newberry, Julia Butler Clapp, 1818-1885 - Family
- Newberry, Walter Loomis, 1804-1886
Subjects
- Correspondence - Northeastern States - 1832-1903
- Diaries - New York (State) - 1860-1878
- Manuscripts, American
- Nullification - Sources
- United States - Politics and government - 1815-1861
- Wilmot Proviso, 1846 - Sources
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| Box | Folder | Contents | |||||||||
| 1 | 1 | Correspondence - Personal: Butler, Benjamin C. to Julia B. Newberry, June 7, 1880 | |||||||||
| 1 | 2 | Correspondence - Personal: Letters of Butler, Clapp, Devereux Families (photocopies), 1800-1903 | |||||||||
| 1 | 3 | Correspondence - Personal: Clapp, James to Henry R. Mygatt, 1832, 1833, 1850 | |||||||||
| 1 | 4 | Correspondence - Personal: Clapp, James to Julia B. Newberry, Feb. 24, n.d. | |||||||||
| 1 | 5 | Correspondence - Personal: Clapp, John to James Clapp, 1849,1852,1853 | |||||||||
| 1 | 6 | Correspondence - Personal: Newberry, Julia Butler to Elizabeth Butler and to James Butler, n.d. | |||||||||
| 1 | 7 | Correspondence - Personal: Newberry, Mary Louisa to Julia Butler Newberry, July 3, n.d. | |||||||||
| 1 | 8 | Correspondence - Personal: Unnamed cousins to Julia B. Newberry, 1876, 1878 | |||||||||
| 1 | 9 | Correspondence - Personal: Photocopies of letters in folders 1-8 | |||||||||
| 1 | 10 | Correspondence - Financial: Clapp, James, 1876 | |||||||||
| 1 | 11-12 | Correspondence - Financial: Newberry, Julia Butler, 1872-1885 | |||||||||
| 1 | 13 | Diary: Devereux, Mary D. Butler (transcription photocopy), 1860-ca.1878 | |||||||||
| 1 | 14 | Diary: Unknown authors, 1876, 1903 | |||||||||
| 1 | 15 | Genealogy: Research notes on Butler, Devereux, Kernan Families (photocopy) | |||||||||
| 1 | 16 | Legal Record: Probate Court document re Walter Newberry (photocopy), 1877 | |||||||||
| 1 | 17 | Receipts, 1876 | |||||||||