Typescript titled “Descendants of Charlotte Ledergerber Rumbold Buried in Engelmann Family Cemetery near Shiloh, Illinois.” Includes biographical sketches of Charlotte E. Ledergerger Rumbold, Dr. Thomas Frazier Rumbold, and May Engelmann Rumbold Houston. Charlotte E. Lederberger Rumbold (1839-1894) married Dr. Thomas F. Rumbold, whose previous wife had died, leaving him two small children, Mildred and Frank. She and her husband raised his children and their four daughters: Charlotte, Estella, May, and Caroline. A foster child, Oliver Will Phillips, was also raised by the family. She and her husband moved from St. Louis to San Francisco in the early 1890s; Charlotte died there in 1894. Dr. Thomas Frazier Rumbold (1830-1901) was an internationally known medical specialist of the ear, nose and throat. First doctor in the United States to confine himself to the practice of his specialty. Born in Scotland and left for Canada in 1834, Iowa in 1839. Suffered an accident at age 2 and never walked again on his right leg. Graduated from Jefferson Medical College (now part of Thomas Jefferson University) in 1862, opened his own office in St. Louis in 1866, where he practiced until 1890. Invented a splint for gun-shot fractures of the leg and thigh, along with spray producers treating the nasal passages and throat. May Engelmann Rumbold Houston (1874-1964) married Dr. Albert J. Houston in 1898, moved to San Francisco, had three children and traveled extensively., 1983 June

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The Charlotte Rumbold Papers Series comprises mostly correspondence to and from family members and colleagues from 1918 to 1937. The papers are arranged chronologically and include four letters from Roger Nash Baldwin, a prominent social activist who helped form the American Civil Liberties Union. The Caroline Rumbold Papers Series includes mostly correspondence to and from family members from 1918 to 1929. In the correspondence, their brother Frank Meeker Rumbold referred to his sister Charlotte as "Budge," and Caroline as "Toots" and "Tom." The Engelmann Family Papers Series includes typed translatations (from German) of letters of Lieutenant Adolph Engelmann to his parents during the Mexican War, 1846-1847. Charlotte Rumbold, a seventh-generation members of the Engelmann family, owned these family papers. The papers are arranged chronologically. The General Correspondence Series comprises letters from Charlotte's brother, Frank Rumbold, to his wife, along with several letters from her friend, writer Mary E. Buckley to her friend, Horace Swope. The Charlotte Rumbold Speeches Series includes her speeches on street life and housing conditions. The Caroline Rumbold Travel Diaries Series includes three diaries from her trip around the world in 1928 and 1929. Caroline Rumbold's travel diaries and her letters to siblings from her world tour are similar in content. The Miscellaneous Series includes Caroline Rumbold's scrapbook and Charlotte Rumbold's "Report of the Housing Committee of The Civic League of St. Louis."