Madeline McDowell Breckinridge and the Battle for a New South

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269 Notes Abbreviations ACM Anne Clay “Nannie” McDowell BFP Breckinridge Family Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, DC DB Desha Breckinridge FCHQ Filson Club History Quarterly HCM Jr. Henry Clay McDowell Jr. HCM Sr. Henry Clay McDowell Sr. HCMFP Henry Clay Memorial Foundation Papers, Special Collections and Digital Programs, Margaret I. King Library, University of Kentucky, Lexington LC Library of Congress, Washington, DC MM Madeline McDowell MMB Madeline McDowell Breckinridge Register Register of the Kentucky Historical Society SPB Sophonisba Preston Breckinridge UC University of Chicago UK University of Kentucky, Lexington WCPB William Campbell Preston Breckinridge Chapter 1: One Great Honored Name 1. SPB, Madeline McDowell Breckinridge: A Leader in the New South (Chicago , 1921), 10; McDowell genealogy, HCMFP. 2. SPB, Breckinridge, 1, 8–9, 11; SPB, “Madeline McDowell Breckinridge,” in Southern Pioneers in Social Interpretation, ed. Howard W. Odum (Chapel Hill, NC, 1925), 186; James Lane Allen, The Blue-Grass Region of Kentucky (New York, 1892), 36. 3. SPB, Breckinridge, 1. 4. Ibid. 5. Lowell H. Harrison and James C. Klotter, A New History of Kentucky (Lexington, 1997), 19, 53, 67, 58–64; John E. Kleber, ed., The Kentucky Encyclopedia (Lexington, 1992), s.v. “District of Kentucky.” For more on the McDowell 270 genealogy, see Thomas Marshall Green, Historic Families of Kentucky (1889; repr., Baltimore, 1966), 1, 3, 30, 39, 75–78, passim; Charles Kerr, “A Life Connecting the Past with the Present,” Bessie Taul Conkwright Clippings, Filson Historical Society, Louisville; typescript on genealogy, Preston Johnston Papers, Special Collections and Digital Programs, Margaret I. King Library, UK; John M. Brown, Memoranda of the Preston Family (1842; repr., Frankfort, 1870); Anna Mary Moon, Sketches of the Shelby, McDowell, Deaderick, and Anderson Families (Chattanooga, 1933). 6. SPB, Breckinridge, 4; Green, Historic Families, 75, 76; “High Tribute to Dr. M’Dowell Is Paid by Dr. S. P. Sprague,” Conkwright Clippings; Frederick Eberson, Portraits: Kentucky Pioneers in Community Health and Medicine (Lexington , 1968), 1, 12. On Ephraim McDowell, see Laman A. Gray, “Ephraim McDowell, Father of Abdominal Surgery, Biographical Data,” FCHQ 43 (1969): 216–29; Willard Rouse Jillson, “Flamma Clara Maturae Medicinae Kentuckiensis ,” FCHQ 21 (1947): 103–29; Ephraim McDowell 1771–1830 Folder, clipping files, Martin D. Schmidt Library, Thomas D. Clark Center for Kentucky History, Frankfort. 7. SPB, Breckinridge, 10, 17–18; Green, Historic Families, 78. Kathleen McCarthy has defined noblesse oblige not only as “the duties of the rich to the society which has enriched them,” but also “the notion that successful citizens owe a dual obligation of time and money to the communities in which they have prospered.” Kathleen D. McCarthy, Noblesse Oblige: Charity and Cultural Philanthropy in Chicago, 1849–1929 (Chicago, 1982), ix. Both definitions describe the attitudes of the McDowell family. 8. Diary of Anne Clay, February 11, 16, 17, 1856, HCMFP. One of the wedding presents was a silver coffee and tea service from her grandfather Henry Clay’s good friend Dr. William N. Mercer of New Orleans. See Anne “Nannie” Clay to Grandma [Susannah] Price, November 3, 1857, HCMFP. Mrs. Price was actually Nannie Clay’s great-aunt and the sister of Lucretia Hart Clay, as well as the mother of Nannie’s guardian, Nannette Price Smith. 9. For Anne Clay’s birth and her mother and father’s deaths, see James F. Hopkins, Mary W. M. Hargreaves, Robert Seager II, and Melba Porter Hay, eds., The Papers of Henry Clay, 11 vols. (Lexington, 1959–92), 9:31, 391–92, 10:312. Anne Clay to Henry Clay [III], June 8, 1847; Aunt Ep to Henry Clay [III], May 1 [1847], both in HCMFP. 10. Document commissioning Henry Clay McDowell into the Union army, November 19, 1861; HCM Sr. to ACM, March 27, April 21, 1862; Thomas J. Clay to ACM, March 3, 1863; J. Stoddard Johnston to HCM Sr., October 13, 1863; document commissioning HCM Sr. as a federal marshal, October 17, 1862, all in HCMFP. 11. HCM Sr. to ACM, November 4, 1880, HCMFP; Lexington Herald, November 28, 1920. 12. Last Will and Testament of Maria Harvey McDowell, May 21, 1875, Notes to Pages 4–6 271 probated December 16, 1876; HCM Jr. to ACM, December 12, 1875, November 4, 1880; HCM Sr. to Magdalen Harvey McDowell, June 15, 1866, August 13 [1867?], October 30, 1880, April 29, June [14?], 1885; A. K. Kennedy to Magdalen McDowell, May 27, 1874; application for patent on fireplace, by Magdalen McDowell, May 1889, all in HCMFP...