Eron Rowland
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Eron Rowland (1861/2-1951), born Eron Opha Moore and also known as Eron Moore Gregory, was a historian, author and the wife of Andrew E. Gregory until his death in 1900. She later married Dunbar Rowland.[1] With Rowland, she helped develop the Mississippi Department of Archives and History which holds many of the family's papers.[2][3]
Rowland was a historian for the Mississippi chapter of the National Society of the Colonial Dames of America and authored several books and articles on subjects including Varina Howell, the War of 1812 in Mississippi, and Hinds County, Mississippi.[4][5]
Writings[edit]
- Andrew Jackson's campaign against the British, or The Mississippi Territory in the War of 1812, concerning the military operations of the Americans, Creek Indians, British, and Spanish, 1813-1815
- two volumes on Varina Howell, the wife of Jefferson Davis[6][7]
- Mississippi Territory in the War of 1812
- History of Hinds County, Mississippi, 1821-1922, a commemoration of Jackson, Mississippi's centennial
- The History of Jackson, unfinished manuscript
References[edit]
- ^ "Mrs. Dunbar (Eron) Rowland – A Sense of Place". Retrieved 2022-05-13.
- ^ Speer, Lisa; Mitchell, Heather (2004-01-01). ""The Mississippi Plan": Dunbar Rowland and the Creation of the Mississippi Department of Archives and History". Provenance, Journal of the Society of Georgia Archivists. 22 (1). ISSN 0739-4241.
- ^ Galloway, Patricia (2006-01-01). "Archives, Power, and History: Dunbar Rowland and the Beginning of the State Archives of Mississippi (1902-1936)". The American Archivist. 69 (1): 79–116. doi:10.17723/aarc.69.1.m462n0564g87jqm0. ISSN 0360-9081.
- ^ "Most widely held works by Eron Rowland". WorldCat. Retrieved 2022-05-13.
- ^ Hudgins, Mary D. (1942). "William Dunbar, History Maker". The Arkansas Historical Quarterly. 1 (4): 331–341. doi:10.2307/40037517. ISSN 0004-1823. JSTOR 40037517.
- ^ KIBLER, JAMES EVERETT; CAWTHON, WILLIAM LAMAR; Davis, Varina (1999). "A New Letter from Varina Howell Davis". The Mississippi Quarterly. 52 (2): 323–328. ISSN 0026-637X. JSTOR 26476866.
- ^ Shaw, Arthur Marvin (1950). "Mrs. Jefferson Davis at Fortress Monroe, Virginia". The Journal of Southern History. 16 (1): 73–76. doi:10.2307/2197622. ISSN 0022-4642. JSTOR 2197622.