Research: Finding Aid: The Livingston and Kean Family Papers

Please note that this collection is currently in the process of being rearranged. Please contact Kayla Doyle, Curator of Archives at kayla.doyle@kean.edu with any questions or concerns.

Overview

Title: The Papers of Livingston and Kean Families

Dates: 1740-1995

Creator: Kayla Doyle

Extent: 50 linear feet

Abstract:

The Livingston and Kean Family Papers primarily contain documents detailing everyday life of family members between 1745-1995. Within the family papers, correspondence, receipts, and personal documents provide insight into the people who lived and labored at Liberty Hall, the family’s estate in Union, NJ. Additionally, a large photographic collection adds value to the collection through visual documentation of the family’s life, the historical property, and other events of local and national significance.

Language: The records are primarily in English with some in French.

Administrative Information:

Access Restriction: Materials may be accessed with permission from Curator of Archives

Copyright: There are no known copyright issues within the collection.

Citation: (item), Folder, Box Number, John Kean Collection at Liberty Hall Museum.

Biographical Note:

The Livingston and Kean family papers consist of ledgers, correspondence, photographs, albums, receipts, account pages, and other materials that provide insight into the daily lives of the family. William Livingston was born in 1723 in Albany, New York, attended Yale College, and worked for decades as a lawyer in New York. Upon his retirement, Livingston built a country estate in Elizabethtown, New Jersey. With his wife and eight children, Livingston moved into the Georgian manor in 1774. Livingston spent the next several years serving as brigadier general in New Jersey’s militia, New Jersey’s first elected governor, and representative to the Constitutional Convention. Following Livingston’s death in 1790, his children sold Liberty Hall. Between 1798 and 1811, the estate passed through several families before coming into the Kean family, who would occupy the house until 1995.

The Kean family papers originated with John Kean (1755) of South Carolina, a plantation owner and the first cashier of the Bank of the United States, who married the niece of William Livingston, Susan (Livingston) [Kean] Niemcewicz. They had one son, Peter Kean. John Kean died in 1795, and Susan remarried the Polish count, Julian Ursyn Niemcewicz, an advocate for Polish independence. In 1811, Peter Kean purchased Liberty Hall on his mother’s behalf. Peter Kean was married to Sarah Sabina (Morris) [Kean] Baker and they had three children who survived to adulthood, John Kean (1814), Julia Ursin Niemcewicz Kean, who married Hamilton Fish, and Christine Kean, who married William Griffin. Peter predeceased his mother in 1828 and Susan Niemcewicz died in 1833.

John Kean (1814), Peter and Sarah Kean’s son resided at Liberty Hall for much of his life, where he raised a family with his wife, Lucnietta (Halsted) Kean and built several businesses including Central Railroad of New Jersey, Elizabethtown Gas Company, and Elizabethtown Water Company. John Kean and Lucinetta (Halsted) Kean had nine children, many who lived at Liberty Hall their whole life. Three of John Kean’s daughters, Lucy, Susan, and Elizabeth never married and managed the family estate, traveled, and engaged in charity work. Two of John Kean’s sons, John (1852) and Hamilton Fish Kean became prominent New Jersey politicians, serving as United States senators and members of the United States House of Representatives. Christine, a daughter of John Kean (1814) married into the Roosevelt family. Another daughter, Caroline, had a son, George Barclay Rives, that became a U.S. Ambassador.

The last generation of Kean’s to reside at Liberty Hall included Hamilton Fish Kean’s son, John Kean (1888), his wife Mary Alice (Barney) Kean and their three children, Mary Alice, John (1929), and Stewart. Mary Alice (Barney) Kean played a strong role in the early twentieth century historic preservation movement and served on the boards of several historical organizations throughout her life. She died in 1995, and, according to her wishes, Liberty Hall Museum opened as a museum in 2000.

Scope and Content:

Series 1: Politics

Within this series, explores the political involvement of the Kean family. The series is subdivided by person and position. This series also includes general political papers such as campaigns, pamphlets, or Republican Party. Another subseries includes all the presidential correspondence, invitations, inauguration, and pamphlets from various United States Presidents.

Series 2 Business

This section contains records related to the various businesses that the Livingston and Kean family owned. Each business is a subseries such as Elizabethtown Gas Company, Elizabethtown Water Company, National Bank, Kean Wharf in Savannah, GA, Utility Propane Company, Central Railroad of New Jersey, Ursino Farm, Green Lane Farm. Within each subseries contain correspondence, pamphlets, receipts, and other related materials.

Series 3: Family Correspondence

This series contains all the letters written between Livingston and Kean family members to and from each other. For example, letters to/from John Kean (1755) to Susan (Livingston) [Kean] Niemcewicz and are next to each other to read side by side. These letters are organized chronologically by birth year of the person corresponding to.

Series 4: Personal Correspondence

Series One consists of personal letters received by various family members. These letters are from people outside the Livingston and Kean family. They are sorted by person and in chronological order.

Series 5: Receipts

This series contains receipts related to the purchase of goods such as clothing, food, household goods, and property bills. Receipts are organized into subseries based off of the type of receipt and then by person.

Series 6: War and Military Service

This series contains documents pertaining to specific wars or service in the military. For example, John Kean (1888) correspondences written while serving in World War I are housed in the World War I box.

Series 7: The Arts

Series 6 includes any items related to the arts such as poetry, music, musicals, and sketches that family members created. Each item is in a folder with the category it falls in with the date if applicable.

Series 8: Education

This series contains all papers from various Kean family members while attending school. The documents are subdivided by name of school. This series also contains photographs taken while attending school.

Series 9: Medical

In this series, any medical records are stored here. This includes dietary information, surgeries, scans, or illnesses.

Series 10: Real Estate and Property Deeds

This series is subdivided into different categories such as indentures by person and year. A separate subseries includes correspondence regarding rents collected at various properties. Within this series also includes nonimmediate family members and local resident land deeds.

Series 11: Financial

Series five includes financial records such as banking, bills, stocks, investments, etc. Each category is a subseries and organized by person and date.

Series 12: Wills and Death

This series contains documents regarding the wills, settling of estates, deaths, and funerary arrangements of Kean family members. It is organized by person and date.

Series 13: Society Events

This series contains invitations received by Kean family members. The section is subdivided by type of social gathering. Additionally, within the subdivision it is organized by person invited to the event and date. A separate subseries includes photographs from various social events the Kean family attended.

Series 14 Historical Scholarship

Mary Alice (Barney) Kean’s research pertaining to Liberty Hall, family genealogy, or preservation work on other historic sites can be found here. Research records are divided by type, such as family, property, or personal. Historic preservation activities are separated by site, such as Caldwell House or Proprietary House.

Series 15 Travel

These documents pertain to Kean family members’ travel, such as licenses, automobiles, ships, flights taken, passports, or other related travel documents. Each subseries is organized by person. Another subseries includes postcards that the family collected on their travels. These are organized by location.

Series 16 Liberty Hall Site Buildings, Grounds, and Construction

This series features documents pertaining to work performed on the Liberty Hall property prior to 1995, including building renovations, maintenance, or garden design. This section is organized by building and by date. Items pertaining to general grounds are organized by person ordering the work (if applicable) and date. Within this section, photographs are organized by interior, exterior, grounds, and construction. A separate subseries includes photographs from the Director of Buildings and Grounds Office and are noted as such.

Series 17: Photographs

This series is large and subdivided by type of photograph such as portraits, multiple people, other families, or miscellaneous. They are organized chronologically by the year the person is born

Series 18: Journals, Diaries, and Albums

This series contains any daybooks, appointment books, diaries, flower press books, newspaper albums, or scrapbooks that Kean family members wrote or created. They are subdivided into three categories and organized chronologically by person.

Arrangement:

Under each series and subseries, if applicable, documents are organized by person and date. The exception to this is family correspondence. In this section, the letters are organized with both the receiver and sender next to each other. This will allow the researchers to read their uninterrupted correspondence.

Key People:

John Kean (1755-1795)

Julian Ursyn Niemcewicz (1757-1841)

Susan (Livingston) Kean Niemcewicz (1759-1833)

Peter Philip James Kean (1788-1828)

Sarah Sabina (Morris) [Kean] Baker (1788-1878)

Caleb O. Halsted (1792-1860)

Caroline (Pitney) Halsted (1796-1879)

John Kean (1814-1895)

Charles Gorham Barney (1814-1894)

Lucinetta (Halsted) Kean (1826-1912)

Julia Ursin Niemcewicz (Kean) Fish (1816-1887)

Hamilton Fish (1808-1893)

Christine (Kean) Griffin (1826-1915)

Caroline Morris (Kean) Rives (1849-1887)

George Lockhart Rives (1849-1917)

Susan Livingston Kean (1852-1925)

John Kean (1852-1914)

Julian Halsted Kean (1854-1932)

Christine Griffin (Kean) Roosevelt (1858-1936)

William Emlen Roosevelt (1857-1930)

Lucy Halsted Kean (1859-1929)

Hamilton Fish Kean (1862-1941)

Katharine Taylor (Winthrop) Kean (1866-1943)

Elizabeth d’Hauteville Kean (1864-1922)

Alexander Livingston Kean (1866-1922)

J. Stewart Barney (1867-1925)

George Barclay Rives (1875-1935)

Mary Alice (Van Nest) [Barney] Little (1880-1939)

John Kean (1888-1949)

Robert Winthrop Kean (1893-1980)

Mary Alice (Barney) Kean (1902-1995)

Mary Alice (Kean) Raynolds (1927-2018)

John Kean (1929)

Stewart Barney Kean (1934-2002)

Inventory

Series 1: Politics

Subseries General

Box 1 Political pamphlets, ballot slips, political cartoons, 1850-1960

Subseries Early American Politicians

Box 1 William Livingston, John Jay, Alexander Hamilton,

Subseries John Kean (1755) Political Career

Box 1 War Debt 1776-1795

Box 2 First Bank of the United States and Drafts/Notes, 1770-1795

Box 3 Territory 1776-1795

Box 4 Correspondences 1770-1795

Subseries John Kean (1852) Political Career

Box 1 Congressional Representative (1883-1885) and (1887-1889)

Box 2 United States Senate (1899-1911)

Box 3 Other Political Materials, 1883-1914

Subseries Hamilton Fish Kean

Box 1 United States Senator, 1928-1935

Subseries Presidents

Box 1 Presidential Inaugurations, Letters, Visits, and events/parties invitations,1860-1976

Subseries Political Photographs

Box 1 John Kean (1852), Hamilton Fish Kean, and Presidents, 1880-1990

Series 2 Business

Subseries South Carolina and Georgia

Box 1 John Kean (1755), Samuel Grove, and Peter Lavien Plantations, 1757- 1795

Box 2 Kean Wharf

Subseries Elizabethtown Gas and Water Company

Box 1 Correspondence Projects, Pamphlets, Newsletters, 1850-1995

Subseries Utility Propane Company

Box 1 Correspondence, Annual Reports, Pamphlets, 1970-1995

Subseries National Bank

Box 1 Correspondence, Projects, Pamphlets, 1870-1995

Subseries Various Railroads

Box 1 Central Railroad of New Jersey, Pennsylvania Railroad, Lehigh Valley Railroad and others that contain correspondence, purchases of land, and construction, 1850-1950

Box 2 Central Railroad of New Jersey, Pennsylvania Railroad, Lehigh Valley Railroad and others that contain correspondence, purchases of land, and construction, 1850-1950

Subseries Ursino Farm

Box 1 Records of Purchases, Paying Employees, Farm Notes, 1820-1880

Box 2 Records of Purchases, Paying Employees, Farm Notes, 1881-1995

Subseries Green Lane Farm

Box 1 Finances, Produce Sold, Farm History, 1880-1950

Box 2 Ledger Book Re: Green Lane Farm Expenses, 1890s

Subseries Investment in Stocks

Box 1 Elizabeth D’Hauteville Kean, Lucy Halsted Kean, Lucinetta Halsted Kean, Colonel John Kean, 1830-1929

Subseries General Business Correspondence

Box 1 Peter Van Brugh Livingston, Philip Livingston, John Kean (1755), Susan (Livingston) [Kean] Niemcewicz, Peter Kean, 1760 – 1833

Box 2 John Kean (1814), Caleb O. Halsted, Sarah S.M. (Kean) Baker, 1810-1895

Box 3 Hamilton Fish Kean and John Kean (1852), 1880-1938

Box 4 John Kean (1888), John Kean (1929), and Julian Halsted Kean, 1880-1995

Box 5 Mary Alice (Barney) Kean, 1925-1995

Subseries Ledgers

Box 1 Peter Van Brugh Livingston and Philip Livingston Shipping Records Book, 1740-1746

Box 2 John Kean (1755) Business Records Book, 1770-1775

Box 3 John Kean (1755) Business Records Book, 1776-1780

Box 4 John Kean (1755) Business Records Book, 1780-1795

Series 3: Family Correspondence

Box 1 Peter Van Brugh Livingston and Philip Livingston, Susan (Livingston) [Kean] Niemcewicz and John Kean (1755), Susan (Livingston) [Kean] Niemcewicz and Peter Kean, 1770-1833

Box 2 Correspondence between Sarah S. M. (Kean) Baker and John Kean (1814), Sarah S.M. (Kean) Baker and Lucinetta (Halsted) Kean, and Sarah S.M. (Kean) Baker and Christine (Kean) Griffin, Sarah S.M. (Kean) Baker and Julia (Kean) Fish, 1830-1878

Box 3 Correspondence between Sarah S.M. (Kean) Baker and Grandchildren, 1848-1878

Box 4 Correspondence between John Kean (1814) and Lucinetta (Halsted) Kean, 1840-1895

Box 5 Correspondence between Lucinetta Halsted Kean and Christine (Kean) Roosevelt, 1860-1915

Box 4 John Kean (1852) and Lucinetta (Halsted) Kean, 1870-1912

Box 5 Alexander Livingston Kean and Elizabeth d’Hauteville Kean, Alexander Livingston Kean and Lucinetta (Halsted) Kean, 1870-1915

Box 6 Elizabeth d’Hauteville Kean and Lucinetta (Halsted) Kean, 1870-1912

Box 7 Hamilton Fish Kean and Katharine Taylor (Winthrop) Kean, 1870-1885

Box 8 Hamilton Fish Kean and Katharine Taylor (Winthrop) Kean, 1886-1940

Box 9 Lucy Halsted Kean and John Kean (1862), Lucy Kean and Elizabeth d’Hauteville Kean, 1880-1920

Box 10 John Kean (1888) and Mary Alice (Barney) Kean, John Kean (1888), and John Kean (1929), Mary Alice (Barney) Kean and John Kean (1929), 1920-1995

Box 11 Mary Alice (Barney) Kean and Mary Alice “May” (Kean) Raynolds, Mary Alice (Barney) Kean and Stewart Barney Kean, 1940-1995

Box 12 Miscellaneous Letters

Series 4 Personal Correspondence

Box 1 Peter Van Brugh Livingston, Philip Livingston, John Kean, Susan  (Livingston) [Kean] Niemcewicz, Julian Ursyn Niemcewicz, Peter Kean, 1760-1833

Box 2 Various Founding Fathers, 1750-1850

Box 3 John Kean (1814), Hamilton Fish, and Sarah S.M. (Kean) Baker, 1830-1895

Box 4 Lucinetta (Halsted) Kean and Christine (Kean) Griffin 1840-1912

Box 5 Susan Livingston Kean, John Kean (1852), and Julian Halsted Kean, 1860-1932

Box 6 Elizabeth d’Hauteville Kean, 1870-1890

Box 7 Elizabeth d’Hauteville Kean, 1890-1915

Box 8 Hamilton Fish Kean, 1870-1890

Box 9 Hamilton Fish Kean, 1891-1942

Box 10 Lucy Halsted Kean and Katharine Taylor (Winthrop) Kean 1880-1929

Box 11 John Kean (1888), 1895-1949

Box 12 Mary Alice (Barney) Kean, 1910-1995

Box 13 John Kean (1929), Mary Alice “May” (Kean) Raynolds, Stewart Barney Kean 1930-1995

Box 14 Miscellaneous Letters

Series 5 Receipts

Subseries Clothing Receipts

Box 1 Susan Livingston Kean Niemcewicz, Peter Kean, John Kean (1755), 1795- 1833

Box 2 John Kean (1814), Lucinetta Halsted Kean, 1830-1895

Box 3 Elizabeth D’Hauteville Kean, Lucy Halsted Kean, Susan Livingston Kean 1870-1890

Box 4 Mary Alice (Barney) Kean, Mary Alice (Kean) Reynolds, 1925-1995

Subseries Home Goods

Box 1 Susan Livingston Kean Niemcewicz, Peter Kean, John Kean (1755), 1760-1833

Box 2 John Kean (1814), Lucinetta Halsted Kean, 1830-1912

Box 3 Elizabeth D’Hauteville Kean, Lucy Halsted Kean, Susan Livingston Kean 1870-1890

Box 4 John Kean (1852), Julian Halsted Kean, Alexander Livingston Kean, 1880- 1930

Box 5 Mary Alice (Barney) Kean, 1925-1995

Box 6 Mary Alice (Kean) Raynolds, John Kean (1929), Stewart Barney Kean, 1925-1995

Subseries Property Bills

Box 1 Ursino Farm Property Bills for Utilities and Maintenance

Box 2 Green Lane Farm Property Bills for Utilities and Maintenance

Box 3 New York City Property Bills for Phone Line, Utilities, and Maintenance

Series 6: War and Military Service

Subseries Civil War (1861-1865)

Box 1 Correspondences, Pamphlets, and US Sanitary Commission

Subseries World War I (1914-1918)

Box 1 Correspondences, Pamphlets, and War Bonds

Box 2 Photographs of John Kean (1888)

Subseries World War II (1939-1945)

Box 1 Correspondences, Pamphlets, and War Bonds

Box 2 Photographs of Family Members who Served

Subseries Military Service

Box 1 United States Marines and United States Army, 1948-1954

Series 7: The Arts

Box 1 Music, Poetry, Musicals, and Sketches, 1870-1925

Series 8: Education

Subseries Yale University

Box 1 Correspondences, Invitations, and Newsletters, 1880-1914

Box 2 Photographs of John Kean (1852) and Julian Halsted Kean, 1880-   1914

Subseries St. Mark’s School

Box 1 Correspondences and Newsletters, 1895-1948

Box 2 Photographs of John Kean (1888) and John Kean (1929), 1895- 1948

Subseries Harvard University

Box 1 Correspondences and Newsletters, 1910-1954

Box 2 Photographs of John Kean (1888) and John Kean (1929), 1910-       1954

Subseries Other Schools

Box 1 Sing Sing Military School, Columbia University, and St. Bernard School, 1870-1950

Box 2 Smith College, 1950-1954

Box 3 Photographs from schools, 1870-1954

Series 9 Medical

Box 1 Medical Records, Diets, and Weight Tracking, 20th Century

Series 10 Real Estate and Property Deeds

Subseries Indentures

Box 1 Kean Family Savannah Property, 1790-1914

Box 2 Caleb O. Halsted, 1830-1860

Box 3 Colonel John Kean Properties, 1840-1895

Box 4 Hamilton Fish, 1840-1860

Box 5 Christine Kean Griffine Property and Assorted Indentures, 1840- 1895

Subseries Rent Collected

Box 1 Correspondences Re: Kean Family Collecting Rent

Series 11 Financial Records

Subseries Bank Statements

Box 1 Susan Livingston Kean Niemcewicz, Colonel John Kean, Peter Kean, 1780-1895

Box 2 Elizabeth D’Hauteville Kean, Senator John Kean, 1880-1915

Box 3 Lucy Halsted Kean, 1880-1929

Subseries Tax Records

Box 1 Colonel John Kean, Senator John Kean, 1840-1914

Box 2 Hamilton Fish Kean, Julian Halsted Kean, Lucy Kean, 1880-1935

Series 12 Wills and Deaths

Subseries Wills

Box 1 Colonel John Kean, Lucinetta Halsted Kean, 1895-1920

Box 2 Lucy Halsted Kean, Hamilton Fish Kean, 1925-1980

Box 3 Captain John Kean, Mary Alice Barney Kean, 1940-1995

Subseries Inheritance from Estates

Box 1 Lucy Halsted Kean, Mary Alice Van Nest Barney Little, Colonel John Kean, Sarah S.M. (Kean) Baker, 1878-1940

Subseries Funerals and Deaths

Box 1 Letters of Condolence for Colonel John Kean, Lucinetta Halsted Kean, Senator John Kean, 1895-1915

Box 2 Funerals and Announcement, 1895-1995

Series 13 Society Events

Subseries Weddings

Box 1 Elizabeth D’Hauteville Kean, Lucy Halsted Kean, Susan Livingston Kean, 1880-1929

Box 2 Lucinetta Halsted Kean, Senator John Kean, Mary Alice Barney                                Kean, 1880-1995

Box 3 Ephemera from Non-Kean Weddings, 1870-1995

Subseries Non-Kean Family Parties

Box 1 Elizabeth D’Hauteville Kean, Lucy Halsted Kean, Senator John Kean, and Lucinetta Halsted Kean, 1880-1929

Box 2 Hamilton Fish Kean, Katherine Taylor Winthrop Kean, Mary Alice (Barney) Kean, 1880-1995

Subseries Photographs

Box 1 Christmas 1924-1994

Box 2 Event August 1937 Elizabeth, NJ and Celebration of Elizabeth 1939

Box 3 Fireman Race 1976 and Ford Visit 1976

Box 4 Ford Visit 1976

Box 5 Washington Reenactment, George H.W. Bush Visit

Box 6 Kath and Kim’s Party, Unveiling of Governor Livingston Monument, Washington Inauguration Trip, 1977-1995

Series 14 Historical Scholarship

Subseries Preservation of Liberty Hall

Box 1 Property History, National Registries, and Mary Alice Barney Kean’s notes, 1950-1995

Box 2 Notes on Construction and Projects Accomplished, 1950-1995

Subseries Preservation External Sites

Box 1 Caldwell House and Proprietary House, 1950-1980

Box 2 Boxwood Hall, 1950-1990

Series 15 Travel

Subseries Travel Legal Documents

Box 1 Passports, Licenses, Applications, Department of State Proof of                                Citizenship, 1870-1990

Subseries Modes of Transportation

Box 1 Ships, Airplanes, Car, 1870-1990

Subseries Postcards

Box 1 France, Germany, England, 19th-20th Century

Box 2 Switzerland, Ireland, Romania, 19th-20th Century

Box 3 Japan, 19th-20th Century

Box 4 United States, Canada, Mexico, 19th-20th Century

Box 5 Other Countries, 19th-20th Century

Series 16 Liberty Hall Site Buildings, Grounds, and Construction

Subseries Buildings

Box 1 Icehouse, Carriage House, Wagon Shed, Hot Greenhouse, 1880-1995

Box 2 Mansion, Blue House, 1980-1995

Oversized Box Blueprints, boiler room and Hot Greenhouse, 1915

Subseries Grounds

Box 1 Gardens, Plants Purchased, Changes in Garden, 1810-1995

Subseries Construction

Box 1 Additions, Blueprints, Work Done, 1850-1995

Subseries Photographs

Box 1 Green Lane Farm, Animals, Buildings, Workers, 1900-1950

Box 2 Grounds, 1870-1995

Box 3 Exterior Buildings and Mansion Interior, 1910-1995

Box 4 Construction, 1920-1995

Subseries Photographs from Director of Buildings and Grounds Office

Box 1 Exterior Buildings and Mansion Interior, 1950-1995

Box 2 Exterior Buildings and Mansion Interior, 1950-1995

Box 3 Grounds, 1950-1995

Box 4 Construction, 1940-1995

Series 17 Photographs

Subseries Portraits

Box 1 Caleb O. Halsted, Caroline (Pitney) Halsted, Hamilton Fish, John Kean (1814), Julia Ursyn (Kean) Fish, Christine (Kean) Griffin, Caroline Morris (Kean) Rives, George Lockhart Rives, 1870-1925

Box 2 John Kean (1852), Julian H. Kean, Susan Livingston Kean, 1870-1932

Box 3 Christine Griffin (Kean) Roosevelt, William Emlen Roosevelt, Lucy Halsted Kean, Hamilton Fish Kean, Katherine Taylor (Winthrop) Kean, Elizabeth d’Hauteville- Kean, Alexander Livingston Kean, 1870-1930

Box 4 George Barclay Rives, John Stewart Barney, Mary Alice (Van Nest) [Barney] Little, John Kean (1888), 1949

Box 5 John Kean (1888), 1890-1910

Box 6 John Kean (1888), 1911-1920

Box 7 John Kean (1888) and Robert Winthrop Kean, 1921-1980

Box 8 Mary Alice (Barney) Kean, 1902-1970

Box 9 Mary Alice (Barney) Kean, 1971-1995

Box 10 Mary Alice (Kean) Raynolds, 1927-1945

Box 11 Mary Alice (Kean) Raynolds, 1945-2018

Box 12 John Kean (1929), 1929-1945

Box 13 John Kean (1929), 1946-1995

Box 14 Stewart Barney Kean, 1934-2002

Subseries Multiple People Pictured

Box 1 Susan Livingston Kean and Lucy Halsted Kean, John Kean (1814) with children and grandchildren, John Kean (1852) and Julian Halsted Kean, 1870-1932

Box 2 Roosevelt Family, Caroline Rives and George Lockhart Rives, Caroline Rives with George Barclay Rives, 1870-1940

Box 3 Robert Winthrop Kean and Katherine Taylor (Winthrop) Kean, John Kean (1888) and Katherine Taylor Winthrop Kean, Robert Winthrop Kean and John Kean (1888), 1888-1949

Box 4 Mary Alice (Barney) Kean and her children and Mary Alice (Barney) Kean and her grandchildren, John Kean (1888) with his children, 1927-1995

Box 5 Mary Alice (Kean) Raynolds and her children and John Kean (1929) with his children, 1950-1995

Subseries Other Families

Box 1 Benjamin, Post, Bowden, d’Hauteville, Fish, Northcote, 1860-1995

Subseries Miscellaneous Photos

Box 1 Bradford Family, Harris Brown, Eisha Bruen, John Caldwell, Margaret Elliot, Edith Evans, 1870-1920

Subseries Places

Box 1 Deal, NJ, Elberon, NJ, Far Hills, NJ 1939

Box 2 Kline Mills Road Property, France, General Winfield Scott House, Glenclyffe, Gettysburg, Kean’s Neck

Box 3 St. Marks, Steam Engine

Box 4 New York Buildings, Van Nest House, Newport, R.I.

Series 18 Journals, Diaries, and Albums

Subseries Journals

Box 1 Lucinetta Halsted Kean Day Journal, 1870-1890

Box 2 John Kean (1852) Day Journal, 1880-1900

Box 3 Elizabeth d’Hauteville Kean Day Journal, 1880-1890

Box 4 Mary Alice Barney Kean Day Journal 1930-1950

Subseries Diaries

Box 1 Lucy Halsted Kean Diary, 1880-1890

Box 2 Elizabeth d’Hauteville Kean Diary, 1890-1900

Box 3 John Kean (1888) Appointment Book, 1930-1940

Box 4 Mary Alice Barney Kean Appointment Book, 1950-1955

Subseries Albums

Box 1 Christine (Kean) Griffin Flower Press Book, 1849

Box 2 Katherine Taylor (Winthrop) Kean Newspaper Scrapbook, 1880s

Box 3 Elizabeth d’Hauteville Kean Flower Press Book, 1890s

Box 4 Lucy Halsted Kean Newspaper Album, 1890s

Box 5 Mary Alice (Barney) Kean Honeymoon Scrapbook, 1925