Captain Miller and the “Arkansas Volunteers of African Descent”
Which young Morristown Civil War hero carries $10,000 in cash to New Orleans for the Union forces along the Mississippi? It was Lindley Hoffman Miller (1834-1864), grandson of George and Louisa...
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Song of the First of Arkansas
This photograph, from a lovingly framed tintype in the Macculloch Hall Historical Museum archives, has long been thought to be of one of Lindley Hoffman Miller’s beloved soldiers “of African descent.”...
View ArticleLove and Romance at Macculloch Hall
Reading the personal family letters in the archives of MHHM reminds us that these people were more than names on a genealogy. They were living, breathing human beings with feelings and emotions. On...
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Alice Duer Miller and Hollywood
Watching the Oscar Awards can make one think back to movies made during Hollywood’s “Golden Age.” If you have seen the 1935 Jerome Kern movie musical Roberta starring Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers,...
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“Are Women People?”
Alice Duer Miller and Women’s Rights In 1915 in an essay in the Saturday Evening Post, former President William Howard Taft wrote, “The longer the extension of the franchise to women waits, the better...
View ArticlePoetry at Macculloch Hall
April was Poetry Month at Macculloch Hall, even though our twenty-year-old series of poetry readings, Poets in the Garden, traditionally takes place in late summer: “Sweet is the breeze when vernal...
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J.P. Morgan Sends Grandma a Birthday Gift
It’s May 20, 1878, and the family has gathered at the “Old House” to celebrate Mary Louisa Macculloch Miller’s seventy-fourth birthday. Mary was the daughter of George and Louisa Macculloch. This photo...
View ArticleHenry Miller, Civil War Naval Hero
On June 10, 1857 two young Midshipmen graduated from the Naval Academy at Annapolis – Henry William Miller (1836-1909), grandson of George Perrot Macculloch and Henry Davis Todd (1838-1907), uncle of...
View ArticleLafayette’s Visit: Eyewitness to History
September is the birthday month of the Marquis de Lafayette, the French hero of the American Revolution who in 1780 brought news to General Washington in Morristown that the French fleet was sailing to...
View ArticleThe Hudson-Fulton Celebration of 1909
Earlier this month the 107th anniversary of the Hudson-Fulton Celebration of 1909 passed, without public notice. That spectacular two-week celebration took place in New York Harbor upon the 300th...
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