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Category: letters

June 15, 2018September 10, 2018 museumgirlknitz

Letter to Mammy, November 3, 1894, Petersburg

April 27, 2018September 10, 2018 museumgirlknitz

Paris

April 19, 2018September 10, 2018 museumgirlknitz

London

April 13, 2018September 10, 2018 museumgirlknitz

The trip over…

March 28, 2018September 10, 2018 museumgirlknitz

Paris October 15, 1894

March 26, 2018September 10, 2018 museumgirlknitz

The Letters, Part 2

March 11, 2018September 10, 2018 museumgirlknitz

The Letters, Part 1

KCB timeline

1853 – born Airlie Plantation, NE Louisiana

1863 – father died; family moved to Texas

1865 – sent to live with aunt in New York

1874 – married CRB in Memphis, Tennessee

1877 – son James Carson born

1881 – daughter Mary Carson born

1883 – daughter Susanna Preston Lees born

1882 – CRB elected congressman from Arkansas

1891 – became charter member 146 of Daughters of the American Revolution

1894 – CRB appointed minister to Russia; family traveled to Saint Petersburg; CRB & KCB attended wedding of Nicholas & Alexandra

1895 – son Clifton Rodes Breckinridge, Jr. born

1896 – CRB & KCB attended coronation of Nicholas & Alexandra; traveled Europe with children

1898 – returned to United States

1900 – CRB appointed to Dawes Commission; CRB & KCB moved to Fort Smith, Arkansas

1914 – returned to Europe with daughter and son

1921 – died

 

 

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