Rebecca Allen Turner Collection, 1840-1895

Rebecca Allen Turner Collection, 1840-1895 UALR.MS.0174

UALR Center for Arkansas History and Culture
401 President Clinton Avenue
Little Rock, AR, 72201
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Arrangement

Scope and Content

This collection chiefly consists of antebellum correspondence from William H. Allen to his sister Rebecca Jane (Allen) Turner, discussing William's steamboat travels along the Mississippi, Arkansas, and Ohio Rivers. Letters describe boat travel in detail as well as the natural scenery and people William encountered. Letters mention family news and health, poetry and literature, Rebecca's schooling at Steubenville Female Seminary in Ohio, and William's encounters with Native and African Americans. The collection also includes items concerning Rebecca's husband, the Unionist judge Jesse Turner, and Reconstruction era and railroad politics.

For a related collection, see the Turner Family Papers, UALR.MS.0031.

This collection was originally numbered H-31 and is part of the J. N. Heiskell Historical Collection, courtesy of the Arkansas Gazette Foundation.

Biographical Note

William H. Allen (1821-1857) was a clerk on various steamships in the mid-nineteenth century. Rebecca Jane (Allen) Turner (1823-1917) attended boarding school in Ohio. Later, she married Jesse Turner (1805-1894), a judge from Van Buren, Arkansas. Turner was involved in the building of the Little Rock and Fort Smith Railroad, served as a member of the Arkansas legislature in 1838, and took part in the 1836 and 1861 Constitutional Conventions. He was also a district attorney of the United States for western Arkansas.

Restrictions

Conditions Governing Access

This collection is available for viewing at the Arkansas Studies Institute.

Conditions Governing Use

The copyright law of the United States (Title 17-U.S. Code) governs the making of photocopies or other reproductions of copyrighted material. The person using this material is liable for any infringement.

Copyright for correspondence in the collections belongs to those correspondents or their beneficiaries. Persons wanting to re-use those materials are advised to obtain permission from copyright holders.

Administrative Information

Citation Notes

Bibliographic citation:

Rebecca Allen Turner Collection, 1840-1895, UALR.MS.0174. UALR Center for Arkansas History and Culture, Arkansas Studies Institute, Little Rock.

Footnote or Endnote Information:

Description of item, location of item in the collection, Rebecca Allen Turner Collection, 1840-1895, UALR.MS.0174.