Biographical and Genealogical Records, 1634-2001 and undated

Biographical and autobiographical sketches, correspondence, genealogical charts, family histories, scrapbooks, testimonials, lists of property and estates, and certificates of marriages and burials for various individuals and families, primarily residents of Maryland. Included in this grouping is information pertaining to the Dorsey, McNeal, and Beckwith families, Charles Carroll of Carrollton, Roger Brooke Taney, George Peabody, Johns Hopkins, John Pendleton Kennedy, Lizette Woodworth Reese, Edgar Allan Poe, and Thomas Baddeley Symons.