Research Catalog

Title

The family life of George Washington / by Charles Moore, with an introduction by Mrs. Theodore Roosevelt.

Author

Moore, Charles, 1855-1942

Publication

• Boston, Mass. ; New York, NY : Houghton Mifflin Co., 1926.
• Cambridge, Mass. : Riverside Press

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Details

Additional Authors

• Houghton Mifflin Company, publisher.
• Riverside Press (Cambridge, Mass.), printer.

Description

xvi pages, 1 leaf, 250 pages, [66] pages of plates : frontispiece, portraits, maps (1 double), facsimiles; 24 cm

Subject

• Washington, George, 1732-1799 > Family
• Custis family
• Custis family
• Washington, George, 1732-1799
• Families

Genre/Form

• History.
• Biographies.

Note

• "This large-paper edition, printed at the Riverside Press in Cambridge, Massachusetts, U.S.A., in February, 1923, is limited to three hundred and seventy-five numbered copies, of which three hundred and fifty are to be sold."

Contents

Introduction / Mrs. Theodore Roosevelt -- The Land of the Washingtons -- Washington Family Migrations -- The Education of George Washington -- Arms and Ladies -- Courtship and Marriage -- The Dandridge, Parke, and Custis Families -- In the House of Burgesses --- Family Life at Mount Vernon -- John Parke Custis and Martha Parke Custis -- Eliza Parke Custis and Thomas Law, Her Sometime Husband -- Martha Parke (Custis) Peter, of Tudor Place -- Nelly Custis -- George Washington Parke Custis, the Child of Mount Vernon -- Last Days at Mount Vernon -- Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence Lewis, of Woodlawn -- George Washington Parke Custis, of Arlington -- The Vicissitudes of Mount Vernon -- An Autobiographic Will -- Washington Chronology -- Index.

LCCN

26009004

OCLC

• ocm00425993
• 425993
• SCSB-277804

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library