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Collection: 11100 Digitized Images from Collection
Title: Alexander McKenzie Family Papers
Date: 1889-1945
Summary: Papers consist of correspondence to Elva A. McKenzie (1856-1922) from Alexander McKenzie (1851-1922), miscellaneous correspondence to Alexander, Elva, Jeannette (1888-1979), Alexander Jr. and Thomas McKenzie, personal files, financial material, legal documents, newspaper clippings, photographs and several artifacts. The collection consists of Elva McKenzie’s personal effects, which were acquired by her daughter Jeannette at the time of her death in 1922. Some of Jeannette’s personal correspondence and material, dating after her mothers’ death, is also in the collection. Personal material of Alexander McKenzie was likely left in the family apartments/home in New York City and Yonkers after his visits, and added to Elva’s paper in the family collection. The book The Spoilers by Rex Beach (1905) was added to the collection from the State Archives publications. The gold mining scandal at Nome, AK, was the basis for the novel, which Beach witnessed firsthand. The villain Alec McNamara in the novel is based on Alexander McKenzie. __The collection is discussed in the article “Alex McKenzie Carried This Secret to His Grave: Daughter by Wife He Kept Hidden 32 Years Tells Story,” The Minneapolis Sunday Tribune 20 August 1922, p. 1: “Jeannette says a wedding license is among her mother’s personal effects, locked up in a safety deposit vault in the bank at Yonkers, awaiting probate of her mother’s will. Jeannette is executor of the will.”
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