Davison family

Overview

Two letters A. H. Davison of Des Moines, Iowa, and a preliminary sketch on the history of the Davison (Davisson and Davidson) Family.

Overview

The family history of Flora May Davisson of Lost Creek, West Virginia, primarily concerning the descendants of Captain Samuel Stalnaker (d. 1769). Material covers the years 1750-1950.

Scope and Contents Papers of Melville Davisson Post (1869-1930), an American mystery and detective short story writer in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. The bulk of the materials date from 1850 to 1929 and primarily consist of Melville Davisson Post's personal and business letters and family financial and legal papers. Business letters mainly document the process of soliciting or accepting and then publishing Post's stories. Financial papers pertain to Post's personal finances in the 1920s,...