MSS 2/0019-01 Acc. 1986-018
MINTZER, ST.JOHN W.
(1829-1894)
Papers,
1847-1912
Box Series
1 1 PERSONAL PAPERS, 1849-1912
1. 1 Biographical material and family correspondence,
1849-1912:
1 Passports (1 folder) 1856;1867
2 Marriage certificate and transcript
(1 folder) 1889;1894
3 Obituaries [copies] (1 folder) 1894
4 Correspondence sent to Frances
("Fannie") M. Mintzer [wife] (1 folder) 1891-1893
5 Correspondence received from
Frances M. Mintzer (1 folder)
6 Frances M. Mintzer correspondence
received (1 folder) 1895-1909
7 Frances M. Mintzer diploma and
registration (1 folder) [diploma
filed with MSS Oversize] 1881;1894
8 Watkins F. Mintzer and Anna M. Mintzer
[children] memorabilia (1 folder)
[diploma filed with MSS Oversize] 1889-1912
9 Correspondence issued to Maria Mintzer
[mother] (1 folder) 1849
10 Correspondence received from
Maria Mintzer (1 folder) 1864;1873
11 Correspondence sent to Charles H.
Mintzer [brother] and Charles H. Mintzer
miscellaneous material (1 folder) 1882-1900
12 Correspondence received from Josephine
("Josie") Mintzer Oulton [sister]
(1 folder) 1866
13 Correspondence received from Theodore F.
Mintzer [cousin?] (1 folder) 1864
14 Miscellaneous Mintzer and Watkins
Family tombstone transcriptions
(1 folder) [ca.1870?]
Box Series
1 1. 2 Education, 1848-1854:
1 Lecture admission cards (Jefferson
Medical College, Homeopathic Medical
College, and Eclectic Medical College
of Pennsylvania) (1 folder) 1848-1850
2 Diplomas (Philadelphia College of
Medicine and Eclectic Medical College
of Pennsylvania) (2 items) [filed with
MSS Oversize] 1850;1854
1. 3 Personal correspondence received [filed
alphabetically by author], 1849-1895:
1 "B" (1 folder) 1869-1892
2 Blair, A.R. (1 folder) 1866-1874
3 Burger Family (1 folder) 1872-1890
4 "C" (1 folder) 1851-1894
5 Christman, Charles H. (1 folder) 1854-1871
6 "D" (1 folder) 1855-1891
7 "E" (1 folder) 1878
8 "F" (1 folder) 1884
9 "G" (1 folder) 1866-1867
10 "H" (1 folder) 1852-1894
11 "K" (1 folder) 1866;1874
12 "L" (1 folder) 1864-1873
13 "M" (1 folder) 1863-1890
14 "N" (1 folder) 1853;1888
15 "P" (1 folder) 1849-1865
16 "R" (1 folder) 1851-1876
17 "S" (1 folder) 1851-1894
18 Stewart, David D. [includes TLS from
W.W. Keen] (1 folder) 1894-1895
19 Turkheim, Moritz (1 folder) 1873-1875
20 "V" (1 folder) 1863-1876
21 "W" (1 folder) 1865-1869
22 Unidentified (1 folder) 1854-1880
1. 4 Personal correspondence sent [filed
chronologically], 1867-1872
1 1867-1872 (1 folder)
Box Series
1 2 ACADEMIC POSITIONS, 1850-1855
2. 1 Eclectic Medical College of Pennsylvania,
1850-1855:
1 Correspondence received from John
Fondey (1 folder) 1853-1855
2 Correspondence; resignation; draft of
diploma; and draft of alumni society
constitution (1 folder) 1850-1855
3 Lecture admission cards (1 folder) [185-]
2. 2 Penn Medical College, 1853-1854:
1 Correspondence with Abraham Livezey
(1 folder) 1853-1854
2 Matriculation and lecture admission
cards (1 folder) 1853
2 3 AMERICAN MEDICAL MUSEUM OF PHILADELPHIA,
1853-1857
1 Act to incorporate [includes printed
copies] (1 folder) 1854
2 Correspondence sent and received
(1 folder) 1853-1854
3 Corporators of the American Medical
Museum minutes (1 folder) 1854-1857
4 WAR OF THE REBELLION (1861-1865), 1861-1890
4. 1 Personal correspondence, 1860-1863:
1 Correspondence sent to Thomas E.
Vinduzer (3 folders) 1860-1863
4. 2 26th Regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteers,
1861-1863; 1884:
1 Correspondence, orders, and reports
(7 folders) 1861-1863
2-3 2 Medical and hospital supply reports
and requisitions (8 folders) 1861-1863
3 Reports hospital fund (monthly)
(1 folder) 1862
Box Series
3 4. 2 4 Reports sick and wounded (1 folder) 1863
5 Financial orders to pay (1 folder) 1862
6 Financial receipts (1 folder) 1862
7 U.S. Surgeon General's Office, "Catalogue
of the Army Medical Museum" [printed]
(1 volume) 1863
8 Newsclippings and printed material
(1 folder) 1863;1884
9 Survivors' Association commemorative
badge and circular (1 folder) n.d.
4. 3 U.S.A. General Hospital,
McMinnville, Tennessee, 1863-1864:
1 Correspondence, orders, and reports
(3 folders) 1863-1864
4 2 Medical and hospital supply reports
and requisitions (4 folders) 1863-1864
3 Quartermaster's stores reports
and requisitions (1 folder) 1863
4 Board of Survey orders, proceedings,
and reports (2 folders) 1863-1864
5 Reports [drafts] (1 folder) [ca.1863?]
6 Reports deceased soldiers' effects
(1 folder) 1863-1864
7 Drawing of hospital (1 folder) [ca.1864?]
4. 4 U.S.A. General Hospital,
Beverly, New Jersey, 1864:
1 Correspondence and orders (1 folder) 1864
2 Medical and hospital supply reports
and requisitions (1 folder) 1864
3 Quartermaster's stores reports
and requisitions (1 folder) 1864
4. 5 U.S.A. General Hospital,
South Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania,
1864-1865:
1 Correspondence, orders, and reports
(1 folder) 1864-1865
2 Medical and hospital supply reports
and requisitions (3 folders) 1864
3 Quartermaster's stores reports
and requisitions (1 folder) 1864
4 Reports deceased soldiers' effects
(1 folder) 1864
5 Financial invoices and receipts
(1 folder) 1864
Box Series
5 4. 6 U.S.A. General Hospital,
York, Pennsylvania, 1861-1865:
1 Correspondence, orders, and reports
(7 folders) 1862-1865
5-6 2 Medical and hospital supply reports
and requisitions (6 folders) 1864-1865
3 Quartermaster's stores reports
and requisitions (13 folders) 1864-1865
4 U.S. War Department Ordnance Office,
"Instructions for making quarterly
returns of ordnance and ordnance
stores" [printed] (1 volume) 1864
7 5 Reports hospital slush fund (weekly)
(1 folder) 1864-1865
6 Reports laundresses (1 folder) 1865
7 Reports public auction accounts
(1 folder) 1865
8 Reports repayment of loans to
enlisted men (1 folder) 1864-1865
9 Reports sick and wounded (1 folder) 1864-1865
10 Reports sutler's examinations
(1 folder) 1864-1865
11 Reports volunteer pay and clothing
accounts (1 folder) 1865
12 Property ward measurements (1 folder) 1864-1865
13 Property ground plan of hospital
(1 item) [filed with MSS Oversize] [ca.1865]
14 Property construction papers
(1 folder) 1864
15 Financial invoices and receipts
(1 folder) 1864-1865
16 Newsclippings (1 folder) [ca.1865]
17 Printed material "The cartridge box"
[camp newspaper], vol.2, no.17
(1 folder) 1865
18 Printed material miscellaneous
(1 folder) 1861;1865
19 Niles, H.E., "Address of Rev. H.E. Niles
on the occasion of President Lincoln's
funeral obsequies in York, Pa."
[printed] (1 volume, 4 copies) 1865
20 Miscellaneous (1 folder) n.d.
4. 7 U.S. Treasury Department Audit, 1886:
1 Correspondence (1 folder) 1886
Box Series
7 4. 8 Pension, 1864-1892:
1 Correspondence and affidavits
(1 folder) 1864-1892
5 U.S. WAR DEPARTMENT BUREAU OF
REFUGEES, FREEDMEN AND ABANDONED LANDS,
1865-1870
1 Correspondence, orders, and reports
(4 folders) 1865-1867
2 Correspondence received general
(1 folder) 1865-1867
3 Correspondence received from
E.M. Gregory (1 folder) 1866-1867
4 Correspondence received from J.H. Hilles
(1 folder) 1866-1868
5 Correspondence received from W.W. Orr
(1 folder) 1866-1867
6 Correspondence received from A.M. Sperry
(1 folder) 1866-1867
7 Correspondence received from
E.W. Wheelock (1 folder) 1866-1869
8 Financial bank account book
and orders to pay (1 folder) 1865-1867
9 Newsclippings (1 folder) 1870
8 6 BUSINESS VENTURES AND FINANCIAL PAPERS,
1852-1887
6. 1 False teeth, 1855; 1861:
1 Correspondence and report (1 folder) 1855;1861
6. 2 Oscillating Pump Company, 1872-1877:
1 Correspondence (1 folder) 1873-1877
2 Promotional material and newsclippings
(1 folder) 1873-1877
3 Financial invoices (1 folder) 1873-1876
4 Patent application and manufacturing
contract (1 folder) 1872-1876
5 Correspondence received Wilson, J.E.
(1 folder) 1873-1876
6 U.S. Centennial International Exhibition
(Philadelphia, Pa., 1876)
correspondence and printed material
(1 folder) 1875-1876
Box Series
8 6. 3 Universal Exposition
(Vienna, Austria, 1873), 1872-1873:
1 Correspondence (1 folder) 1872-1873
2 Exhibition space plans (1 folder) [1873]
3 "Official catalogue of the American
Department" [printed] (1 volume) 1873
4 Memorabilia (1 folder) [1873]
6. 4 Automatic Overseaming Buttonhole
Machine Company, 1882-1887:
1 Correspondence (1 folder) 1882-1886
2 Stock certificates (1 folder) 1886-1887
6. 5 Miscellaneous, 1852-1878:
1 Correspondence (1 folder) 1854-1876
2 Correspondence received
Jennings, Ryerson W. and Clara
(1 folder) 1875-1878
3 Promissory notes (1 folder) 1852-1865
4 Stock certificates (1 folder) 1865;1866
7 U.S. DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
PENSION BUREAU BOARD OF EXAMINING
SURGEONS, 1893
1 Application and reference (1 folder) 1893
8 LEGAL PAPERS, 1863-1871
1 Subpoenas and summonses (1 folder) 1863-1871
9 PROPERTY PAPERS, 1882
1 Deed, brief of title, and description
of property for "China Hall",
Bucks County, Pa. (1 folder) 1882
Box Series
8 10 ORGANIZATIONS, AFFILIATIONS, AND
ACTIVITIES, 1855-1893
10. 1 Academy of Natural Sciences:
1 Certificate of membership (1 item)
[filed with MSS Oversize] 1871
10. 2 Franklin Institute:
1 Certificate of membership (1 item)
[filed with MSS Oversize] 1855
10. 3 Free and Accepted Masons:
1 Certificates of membership and
correspondence (1 folder) 1865-1871
10. 4 Grand Army of the Republic:
1 Application for membership and
correspondence (1 folder) 1879-1892
10. 5 Philadelphia Mayoralty Convention (1868):
1 Correspondence and list of delegates
(1 folder) 1868
10. 6 Society of the Army of the Potomac:
1 Correspondence and newsclipping
(1 folder) 1876;1877
10. 7 Welsh Society:
1 Certificate of membership,
correspondence, and commemorative
badge (1 folder) [certificate filed
with MSS Oversize] 1852-1893
Box Series
9 11 PHOTOGRAPHS, 1850-1891 [refer to separate
listing for details]
11. 1 Mintzer, St.John Watkins (6 items) 1850-1867
11. 2 Lewenhaupt, le Comte Steu and daughter?
(1 item) [ca.1873?]
11. 3 Duncan, E.A. (1 item) [ca.1867?]
11. 4 Gillette, F.B. (1 item) [ca.1861?]
11. 5 Lambe, Charles E. (1 item) [ca.1860]
11. 6 Dickinson, Joseph (1 item) 1891
11. 7 Unidentified (male) (22 items) 1860s
11. 8 Dewey, Commodore George [print] (1 item) n.d.
11. 9 University of Pennsylvania Medical
Department faculty (1 item) [ca.1881]
11.10 Unidentified (female) (10 items) [ca.1865]
11.11 U.S.A. General Hospital, York, Pa.
(3 items) [ca.1865]
11.12 Vicksburg, Ms. (23 items) [ca.1867?]
11.13 Paris, France (2 items) [ca.1867?]
11.14 Miscellaneous (4 items) n.d.
12 MISCELLANEOUS MATERIALS, 1847-1885
1 Printed materials (1 folder) 1851-1885
2 Calling cards, invitations, and
tickets (1 folder) 1847-1873
1847-1912
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MINTZER, ST.JOHN WATKINS
(1829-1894)
Papers,
1847-1912
Box Series Dates
1 1 PERSONAL PAPERS, 1849-1912
1. 1 Biographical material and family correspondence,
1849-1912:
1 Passports (1 folder) 1856;1867
2 Marriage certificate and transcript
(1 folder) 1889;1894
3 Obituaries [copies] (1 folder) 1894
4 Correspondence sent to Frances
("Fannie") M. Mintzer [wife] (1 folder) 1891-1893
5 Correspondence received from
Frances M. Mintzer (1 folder)
6 Frances M. Mintzer correspondence
received (1 folder) 1895-1909
7 Frances M. Mintzer diploma and
registration (1 folder) [diploma
filed with MSS Oversize] 1881;1894
8 Watkins F. Mintzer and Anna M. Mintzer
[children] memorabilia (1 folder)
[diploma filed with MSS Oversize] 1889-1912
9 Correspondence issued to Maria Mintzer
[mother] (1 folder) 1849
10 Correspondence received from
Maria Mintzer (1 folder) 1864;1873
11 Correspondence sent to Charles H.
Mintzer [brother] and Charles H. Mintzer
miscellaneous material (1 folder) 1882-1900
12 Correspondence received from Josephine
("Josie") Mintzer Oulton [sister]
(1 folder) 1866
13 Correspondence received from Theodore F.
Mintzer [cousin?] (1 folder) 1864
14 Miscellaneous Mintzer and Watkins
Family tombstone transcriptions
(1 folder) [ca.1870?]
Box Series Dates
1 1. 2 Education, 1848-1854:
1 Lecture admission cards (Jefferson
Medical College, Homeopathic Medical
College, and Eclectic Medical College
of Pennsylvania) (1 folder) 1848-1850
2 Diplomas (Philadelphia College of
Medicine and Eclectic Medical College
of Pennsylvania) (2 items) [filed with
MSS Oversize] 1850;1854
1. 3 Personal correspondence received [filed
alphabetically by author], 1849-1895:
1 "B" (1 folder) 1869-1892
2 Blair, A.R. (1 folder) 1866-1874
3 Burger Family (1 folder) 1872-1890
4 "C" (1 folder) 1851-1894
5 Christman, Charles H. (1 folder) 1854-1871
6 "D" (1 folder) 1855-1891
7 "E" (1 folder) 1878
8 "F" (1 folder) 1884
9 "G" (1 folder) 1866-1867
10 "H" (1 folder) 1852-1894
11 "K" (1 folder) 1866;1874
12 "L" (1 folder) 1864-1873
13 "M" (1 folder) 1863-1890
14 "N" (1 folder) 1853;1888
15 "P" (1 folder) 1849-1865
16 "R" (1 folder) 1851-1876
17 "S" (1 folder) 1851-1894
18 Stewart, David D. [includes TLS from
W.W. Keen] (1 folder) 1894-1895
19 Turkheim, Moritz (1 folder) 1873-1875
20 "V" (1 folder) 1863-1876
21 "W" (1 folder) 1865-1869
22 Unidentified (1 folder) 1854-1880
1. 4 Personal correspondence sent [filed
chronologically], 1867-1872
1 1867-1872 (1 folder)
Box Series Dates
1 2 ACADEMIC POSITIONS, 1850-1855
2. 1 Eclectic Medical College of Pennsylvania,
1850-1855:
1 Correspondence received from John
Fondey (1 folder) 1853-1855
2 Correspondence; resignation; draft of
diploma; and draft of alumni society
constitution (1 folder) 1850-1855
3 Lecture admission cards (1 folder) [185-]
2. 2 Penn Medical College, 1853-1854:
1 Correspondence with Abraham Livezey
(1 folder) 1853-1854
2 Matriculation and lecture admission
cards (1 folder) 1853
2 3 AMERICAN MEDICAL MUSEUM OF PHILADELPHIA,
1853-1857
1 Act to incorporate [includes printed
copies] (1 folder) 1854
2 Correspondence sent and received
(1 folder) 1853-1854
3 Corporators of the American Medical
Museum minutes (1 folder) 1854-1857
4 WAR OF THE REBELLION (1861-1865), 1861-1890
4. 1 Personal correspondence, 1860-1863:
1 Correspondence sent to Thomas E.
Vinduzer (3 folders) 1860-1863
4. 2 26th Regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteers,
1861-1863; 1884:
1 Correspondence, orders, and reports
(7 folders) 1861-1863
2-3 2 Medical and hospital supply reports
and requisitions (8 folders) 1861-1863
3 Reports hospital fund (monthly)
(1 folder) 1862
Box Series Dates
3 4. 2 4 Reports sick and wounded (1 folder) 1863
5 Financial orders to pay (1 folder) 1862
6 Financial receipts (1 folder) 1862
7 U.S. Surgeon General's Office, "Catalogue
of the Army Medical Museum" [printed]
(1 volume) 1863
8 Newsclippings and printed material
(1 folder) 1863;1884
9 Survivors' Association commemorative
badge and circular (1 folder) n.d.
4. 3 U.S.A. General Hospital,
McMinnville, Tennessee, 1863-1864:
1 Correspondence, orders, and reports
(3 folders) 1863-1864
4 2 Medical and hospital supply reports
and requisitions (4 folders) 1863-1864
3 Quartermaster's stores reports
and requisitions (1 folder) 1863
4 Board of Survey orders, proceedings,
and reports (2 folders) 1863-1864
5 Reports [drafts] (1 folder) [ca.1863?]
6 Reports deceased soldiers' effects
(1 folder) 1863-1864
7 Drawing of hospital (1 folder) [ca.1864?]
4. 4 U.S.A. General Hospital,
Beverly, New Jersey, 1864:
1 Correspondence and orders (1 folder) 1864
2 Medical and hospital supply reports
and requisitions (1 folder) 1864
3 Quartermaster's stores reports
and requisitions (1 folder) 1864
4. 5 U.S.A. General Hospital,
South Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania,
1864-1865:
1 Correspondence, orders, and reports
(1 folder) 1864-1865
2 Medical and hospital supply reports
and requisitions (3 folders) 1864
3 Quartermaster's stores reports
and requisitions (1 folder) 1864
4 Reports deceased soldiers' effects
(1 folder) 1864
5 Financial invoices and receipts
(1 folder) 1864
Box Series Dates
5 4. 6 U.S.A. General Hospital,
York, Pennsylvania, 1861-1865:
1 Correspondence, orders, and reports
(7 folders) 1862-1865
5-6 2 Medical and hospital supply reports
and requisitions (6 folders) 1864-1865
3 Quartermaster's stores reports
and requisitions (13 folders) 1864-1865
4 U.S. War Department Ordnance Office,
"Instructions for making quarterly
returns of ordnance and ordnance
stores" [printed] (1 volume) 1864
7 5 Reports hospital slush fund (weekly)
(1 folder) 1864-1865
6 Reports laundresses (1 folder) 1865
7 Reports public auction accounts
(1 folder) 1865
8 Reports repayment of loans to
enlisted men (1 folder) 1864-1865
9 Reports sick and wounded (1 folder) 1864-1865
10 Reports sutler's examinations
(1 folder) 1864-1865
11 Reports volunteer pay and clothing
accounts (1 folder) 1865
12 Property ward measurements (1 folder) 1864-1865
13 Property ground plan of hospital
(1 item) [filed with MSS Oversize] [ca.1865]
14 Property construction papers
(1 folder) 1864
15 Financial invoices and receipts
(1 folder) 1864-1865
16 Newsclippings (1 folder) [ca.1865]
17 Printed material "The cartridge box"
[camp newspaper], vol.2, no.17
(1 folder) 1865
18 Printed material miscellaneous
(1 folder) 1861;1865
19 Niles, H.E., "Address of Rev. H.E. Niles
on the occasion of President Lincoln's
funeral obsequies in York, Pa."
[printed] (1 volume, 4 copies) 1865
20 Miscellaneous (1 folder) n.d.
4. 7 U.S. Treasury Department Audit, 1886:
1 Correspondence (1 folder) 1886
Box Series Dates
7 4. 8 Pension, 1864-1892:
1 Correspondence and affidavits
(1 folder) 1864-1892
5 U.S. WAR DEPARTMENT BUREAU OF
REFUGEES, FREEDMEN AND ABANDONED LANDS,
1865-1870
1 Correspondence, orders, and reports
(4 folders) 1865-1867
2 Correspondence received general
(1 folder) 1865-1867
3 Correspondence received from
E.M. Gregory (1 folder) 1866-1867
4 Correspondence received from J.H. Hilles
(1 folder) 1866-1868
5 Correspondence received from W.W. Orr
(1 folder) 1866-1867
6 Correspondence received from A.M. Sperry
(1 folder) 1866-1867
7 Correspondence received from
E.W. Wheelock (1 folder) 1866-1869
8 Financial bank account book
and orders to pay (1 folder) 1865-1867
9 Newsclippings (1 folder) 1870
8 6 BUSINESS VENTURES AND FINANCIAL PAPERS,
1852-1887
6. 1 False teeth, 1855; 1861:
1 Correspondence and report (1 folder) 1855;1861
6. 2 Oscillating Pump Company, 1872-1877:
1 Correspondence (1 folder) 1873-1877
2 Promotional material and newsclippings
(1 folder) 1873-1877
3 Financial invoices (1 folder) 1873-1876
4 Patent application and manufacturing
contract (1 folder) 1872-1876
5 Correspondence received Wilson, J.E.
(1 folder) 1873-1876
6 U.S. Centennial International Exhibition
(Philadelphia, Pa., 1876)
correspondence and printed material
(1 folder) 1875-1876
Box Series Dates
8 6. 3 Universal Exposition
(Vienna, Austria, 1873), 1872-1873:
1 Correspondence (1 folder) 1872-1873
2 Exhibition space plans (1 folder) [1873]
3 "Official catalogue of the American
Department" [printed] (1 volume) 1873
4 Memorabilia (1 folder) [1873]
6. 4 Automatic Overseaming Buttonhole
Machine Company, 1882-1887:
1 Correspondence (1 folder) 1882-1886
2 Stock certificates (1 folder) 1886-1887
6. 5 Miscellaneous, 1852-1878:
1 Correspondence (1 folder) 1854-1876
2 Correspondence received
Jennings, Ryerson W. and Clara
(1 folder) 1875-1878
3 Promissory notes (1 folder) 1852-1865
4 Stock certificates (1 folder) 1865;1866
7 U.S. DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
PENSION BUREAU BOARD OF EXAMINING
SURGEONS, 1893
1 Application and reference (1 folder) 1893
8 LEGAL PAPERS, 1863-1871
1 Subpoenas and summonses (1 folder) 1863-1871
9 PROPERTY PAPERS, 1882
1 Deed, brief of title, and description
of property for "China Hall",
Bucks County, Pa. (1 folder) 1882
Box Series Dates
8 10 ORGANIZATIONS, AFFILIATIONS, AND
ACTIVITIES, 1855-1893
10. 1 Academy of Natural Sciences:
1 Certificate of membership (1 item)
[filed with MSS Oversize] 1871
10. 2 Franklin Institute:
1 Certificate of membership (1 item)
[filed with MSS Oversize] 1855
10. 3 Free and Accepted Masons:
1 Certificates of membership and
correspondence (1 folder) 1865-1871
10. 4 Grand Army of the Republic:
1 Application for membership and
correspondence (1 folder) 1879-1892
10. 5 Philadelphia Mayoralty Convention (1868):
1 Correspondence and list of delegates
(1 folder) 1868
10. 6 Society of the Army of the Potomac:
1 Correspondence and newsclipping
(1 folder) 1876;1877
10. 7 Welsh Society:
1 Certificate of membership,
correspondence, and commemorative
badge (1 folder) [certificate filed
with MSS Oversize] 1852-1893
Box Series Dates
9 11 PHOTOGRAPHS, 1850-1891 [refer to separate
listing for details]
11. 1 Mintzer, St.John Watkins (6 items) 1850-1867
11. 2 Lewenhaupt, le Comte Steu and daughter?
(1 item) [ca.1873?]
11. 3 Duncan, E.A. (1 item) [ca.1867?]
11. 4 Gillette, F.B. (1 item) [ca.1861?]
11. 5 Lambe, Charles E. (1 item) [ca.1860]
11. 6 Dickinson, Joseph (1 item) 1891
11. 7 Unidentified (male) (22 items) 1860s
11. 8 Dewey, Commodore George [print] (1 item) n.d.
11. 9 University of Pennsylvania Medical
Department faculty (1 item) [ca.1881]
11.10 Unidentified (female) (10 items) [ca.1865]
11.11 U.S.A. General Hospital, York, Pa.
(3 items) [ca.1865]
11.12 Vicksburg, Ms. (23 items) [ca.1867?]
11.13 Paris, France (2 items) [ca.1867?]
11.14 Miscellaneous (4 items) n.d.
12 MISCELLANEOUS MATERIALS, 1847-1885
1 Printed materials (1 folder) 1851-1885
2 Calling cards, invitations, and
tickets (1 folder) 1847-1873
1847-1912
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MINTZER, ST.JOHN W.
(1829-1894)
Papers,
1847-1912
Biographical
St. John Watkins Mintzer, Philadelphia surgeon and businessman,
was born in Philadelphia in 1829. In 1889, late in life, he
married Frances Wallace, a physician; they had two children,
Watkins F. (b.1889) and Anna Maria (b.1892). Mintzer died of
cancer of the throat at his home, "China Hall", in Bucks County,
Pennsylvania, on 26 December, 1894.
Mintzer appears to have attended medical lectures at both Jefferson Medical
College and the Homeopathic Medical College, but he received his
M.D. from the Philadelphia College of Medicine in 1850. He received
an additional degree, Doctor of Eclectic Medicine, from the Eclectic
Medical College of Pennsylvania in 1854.
Following the completion of his studies, Mintzer began to teach.
He was Professor of Anatomy and Physiology at the newly incorporated Eclectic
Medical College of Pennsylvania from 1851 to 1853; in 1853, he
became Professor of Institutes and Practices of Surgery. In
1852, Mintzer was named a trustee of the Eclectic. Mintzer
seems to have severed his connections with the Eclectic at
the College's suggestion in July, 1854.
Mintzer's career at the Penn Medical College is difficult to document.
He was elected to the Chair of Anatomy in September, 1853, and
appears to have given lectures on anatomy in the Female Session during
the autumn of 1853. Mintzer does not appear to have been paid for
his employment, however, and left the College, probably at the end
of the fall session.
Mintzer also spoke on syphilitic diseases at the fifth annual
meeting of the National Eclectic Medical Association, held in
Worcester, Connecticut, in May, 1854.
During the years after leaving the eclectic schools, Mintzer's activities
are uncertain. He was a motivating force behind the organization
of the American Medical Museum of Philadelphia; although incorporated
by the Pennsylvania House of Representatives in 1854, the museum
does not appear to have ever opened, and the project was abandoned
in 1857. In conjunction with Thomas E. Vinduzer, Mintzer also
formed a company to sell false teeth at this time. This enterprise
persisted through the Civil War.
St. John W. Mintzer was appointed Acting Surgeon for the 1st Regiment,
Washington Brigade, on 20 April, 1861, and Assistant Surgeon
on 11 May, 1861. By June, he had become Surgeon to the 26th Regiment,
Pennsylvania Volunteers, and was present while this unit was
campaigning in Virginia. He held this post during the Battle
of Chancellorsville and was present at battles fought under
General Joseph Hooker. In June, 1863, Mintzer was appointed
Surgeon of the U.S. Volunteers and was in the Army of the Cumberland
in Tennessee. In July of that year, he was given the charge
of the U.S.A. General Hospital at McMinnville, Tennessee. That
hospital surrendered unconditionally to the forces of the Confederate
States of America on 3 October, 1863. In April, 1864, Mintzer
was appointed Surgeon inChief to the General Hospital on South
Street, in Philadelphia; he was also subsequently commissioned
to establish a hospital at Beverly, New Jersey, in the summer
of 1864. On 24 August, 1864, Mintzer was again reassigned and
took charge of the General Hospital in York, Pennsylvania; he
held the post of Surgeon in Chief of this hospital for the duration
of the war.
After the war, Mintzer was assigned to the U.S. War Department's Bureau
of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, Department of Texas,
and went to Galveston as Surgeon in Chief of the State of Texas
in October, 1865. He was transferred to the Department of Mississippi
at Vicksburg in March, 1867. He was relieved of duty and mustered
out of service on 24 May, 1867.
After his service in the Freedmen's Bureau, Mintzer's movements
again become uncertain, although he probably travelled to Paris
in 1867. Upon his return to Philadelphia, he seems to have
abandoned the medical profession and turned rather to business
ventures. He became involved with the promotion of an invention
called the "Sluthour Pump" and organized the Oscillating Pump
Company in the 1870s to market this product. Mintzer was president
of the company and exhibited the Sluthour Pump at the 1876 Centennial
Exhibition in Philadelphia. The company was sold in 1877. In 1873,
Mintzer was commissioned as Acting Superintendent to receive, open,
and arrange the American Department's exhibits at the Universal
Exposition in Vienna, Austria. In the 1880s, Mintzer became a
stockholder in the Philadelphia based Automatic Overseaming Buttonhole
Machine Company; this company appears to have failed in 1886.
Late in his life, circa 1885, until his death in 1894, St. John
W. Mintzer maintained an active medical practice in Philadelphia.
Scope and Contents
This extensive collection of the papers of St.John Watkins
Mintzer documents the life and career of a 19th century physician,
soldier, and businessman. Although the bulk of the papers concern
his administration of Civil War hospitals, the collection also
contains information about the operation of Philadelphia's eclectic
medical schools, the work of the Freedmen's Bureau in Texas
and Mississippi, and some unusual business ventures of the day.
Materials preserved in Series 1 concern Mintzer's family and personal
life, his medical education, and his personal correspondence
(1849-1912). In addition to some family correspondence, this
series also contains Mintzer's passport, marriage certificate,
and diplomas, biographical information, and information on his
wife and two children. One curious item in the personal correspondence
is a letter, dated 28 May, 1849, from a Richmond firm, Pulliam
and Sloan, listing prices for slaves. The collection of personal
correspondence also contains a letter, dated 12 August 1863,
from William Craig to Mintzer giving a detailed description
of the action and casualties of the 26th Regiment, Pennsylvania
Volunteers, during the Battle of Gettysburg (1-3 July, 1863).
Philadelphia physicians are represented in the collection by a
small but notable folder of letters, 1894-1895, from David Denison Stewart,
a Fellow of the College of Physicians, concerning Mintzer's health
and final illness. Included are an assessment of Mintzer's health
by W.W. Keen, whom Stewart apparently consulted, and letters describing
Stewart's views on abortion. Mintzer's correspondence also
contains one undated letter from Constantin Hering.
Series 2 gives information about Mintzer's brief tenures at
the Eclectic Medical College of Pennsylvania and Penn Medical
College. There is a small collection of letters, 1853-1855,
from John Fondey, whose faculty appointment at the Eclectic
College Mintzer seems to have promoted. Mintzer's stormy relationship
with Penn Medical College is documented through his correspondence,
1853-1854, with Abraham Livezey, Dean of the Faculty. This
series also contains admission cards to Mintzer's lectures at
the two schools.
Information about the incorporation and objectives of the proposed American
Medical Museum of Philadelphia is preserved in Series 3. Mintzer
was very active in promoting this project and seems to have campaigned
tirelessly for its incorporation.
The bulk of the Mintzer Papers is contained in Series 4 which documents
Mintzer's activities during the Civil War. Series 4.1 is a fine
collection of letters, 1860-1863, Mintzer wrote to his friend and
business associate, Thomas E. Vinduzer in Philadelphia. Most
of these letters were written while Mintzer was with the 26th
Regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteers, in Virginia or in charge
of the U.S.A. General Hospital at McMinnville, Tennessee. These
letters not only give a fine account of Mintzer and his experiences
but also describe daily camp life and give some information
about Mintzer's false teeth business venture. One letter, dated
8 May, 1863, gives a brief account of the Battle of Chancellorsville
(2 May, 1863).
Series 4.2 is an extensive collection of correspondence, official orders,
reports, and documents for the requisitioning and receipt of medical
and hospital supplies from Mintzer during his term as Surgeon with
the 26th Regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteers (1861-1863). These documents
give a detailed, statistical view of daily medical administration
of a Civil War company. One notable item is Mintzer's 5 July
1862 extensive report to the Surgeon General concerning camp
life and experiences.
Similar materials are preserved in Series 4.3 through 4.6;
each series deals with a different phase of Mintzer's military
career and his administration of the U.S.A. General Hospitals
at McMinnville, Tennessee (1863-1864), Beverly, New Jersey (1864),
South Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (1864-1865), and York,
Pennsylvania (18641865). The McMinnville hospital papers include
an interesting account of the unconditional surrender of the
hospital to the Confederate forces on 3 October, 1863. The
collections of administrative materials from the Beverly and South
Street hospitals are very small since Mintzer was in charge of those
facilities for only brief periods. The collection of documents from
the hospital at York are, however, very extensive. In addition to
conveying hospital and stores supply information, these papers also
contain information about laundresses employed by the hospital,
detailed ward measurements and a ground plan of the hospital complex,
and even an 1865 issue of the camp newspaper, "The Cartridge
Box". Included in Series 4.6 is an 1864 edition of the U.S.
War Department's printed regulations for filing returns of ordnance
and ordnance stores; this item explains the nature and purpose
of many of the reports and official documents preserved in Series
4. Several photographs of the York hospital are preserved in
Series 11.
Mintzer's experiences after the war with the U.S. War Department's Bureau
of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands are documented in Series
5 (1865-1870). The Bureau was created to administer lands, arbitrate
disputes, and assure the rights of the freedmen. Series 5 describes
conditions in Texas after the Civil War through correspondence
and Mintzer's reports on the general health of the freedmen.
Some financial correspondence, concerning Mintzer's private
interests and investments in Texas, is included. The situation
of the freedmen in the Vicksburg, Mississippi, area in 1867 is
also described. An extensive collections of photographs of
the Vicksburg area, including images of the estate of Joseph
Emory Davis, eldest brother of Jefferson Davis and accounted
one of the wealthiest men in the South, is preserved in Series
11.
Series 6 documents the various business and financial ventures
with which Mintzer was involved during his life. There are
a few items relating to his false teeth business with Thomas
E. Vinduzer and also a small collection of correspondence and
related materials, 18721877, concerning the production of the
Sluthour Pump and the Oscillating Pump Company, formed by Mintzer
to market the invention. Other business ventures, including
Mintzer's brief experience as Acting Superintendent of the American
Department at the 1873 Universal Exposition in Vienna and his
investment in the Automatic Overseaming Buttonhole Machine Company
in the 1880s, are described through correspondence and other
materials.
Series 7 through 9 are quite small collections of documents.
Series 7 contains Mintzer's application materials for a position
on the Board of Examining Surgeons of the U.S. Department of
the Interior's Pension Bureau in 1893. Series 8 is comprised
of some miscellaneous legal subpoenas and summonses, 1863-1871.
Property records relating to Mintzer's home, "China Hall", in
Bucks County, Pennsylvania, are preserved in Series 9.
Mintzer's activities and involvement in various non professional organizations,
such as the Welsh Society and the Franklin Institute, are documented
in Series 10 (1855-1893). There is very little material in
this series other than certificates of membership, some printed
materials, and occasional items of correspondence.
The Mintzer Papers also contain a fine, small collection of photographs,
mostly mounted albumen prints or tintypes, in Series 11. Aside
from images of Mintzer himself, most of the photographs of individuals
are not identified. The collection does, however, contain three
photographs of the U.S.A. General Hospital at York, Pennsylvania,
from Mintzer's time there as well as twenty three views of Vicksburg,
Mississippi, and its environs, probably dating from 1867, the
time of Mintzer's work in that area for the Freedmen's Bureau.
[See the attached list for a detailed catalogue of these photographs.]
Some miscellaneous printed items, 1851-1885, and a large collection of
calling cards and invitations, probably relics of Mintzer's European
trips in 1867 and 1873, are preserved in Series 12.
Provenance
The Mintzer Papers were donated to the Historical Collections
of the College of Physicians of Philadelphia by Robert L. Trescher
of Montgomery, McCracken, Walker, and Rhoads on 20 October,
1986. Earlier owners of the papers are not identified, although
it seems likely that the collection was in the possession of
St.John W. Mintzer's daughter, Anna M. Mintzer, at some point.
A detailed inventory of the collection was made by Marion B.
Sandell of Wayne, Pennsylvania, in 1973. Several items listed
on this inventory were not included in the collection at the
time of its donation. An appraisal of the collection was made
by Catherine Barnes in October, 1986.
The collection was processed during May and June, 1989. During
processing, duplicate materials (particularly in Series 4) were
removed and discarded.
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