Buffat Family Papers.
Scope and Contents
Papers of the family of Pierre Francois Buffat, his wife Sylvie Louise Tauxe Buffat, their children and relatives, who came from Switzerland to Knoxville, Tenn., in 1849. Pierre F. Buffat owned a farm at Spring Place in Knox County, Tenn. He ran a mill starting in 1861, and his son Alfred Buffat joined the business in 1865. Other family names included in the correspondence include: Bolli, Chavannes, Porta, Esperandieu, Sterchi, Truan, and Tauxe. Many of the letters were written in French, with typed translations made by Mrs. C. M. McClung. Papers also include: clippings; social invitations; railroad stock certificates; receipts; poetry; sketch books with drawings by Elisa Bolli Buffat while in Brazil; typed copies of Alfred Buffat’s “Memoirs of My Parents and Their Times,” “My Milling Experiences,” and “Recollections of My Mother.”; Elisa Bolli Buffat’s manuscript “Some Recollections of My Childhood Days and Incidents of My Life During the Civil War.”; extracts of Alfred Buffat’s “Memoirs” with photographs. For a list of selected correspondents, see A Guide to the Manuscript Collections of the Calvin M. McClung Historical Collection by Linda Posey (1974). From 2001 notes by Sarah McKee: 1837 sketchbook; 1862 sketchbook; 1874 postmortem on P.F. Buffat; 1889 photograph of Coal Creek Valley; 1890-92 Coal Creek documents (re: the conflict there); 1894 inventory of the estate of Felicia Tauxe.
Dates
- 1831-1925
Conditions Governing Access
Material is available for research. Prior arrangement MUST be made by contacting the Calvin M. McClung Historical Collection at mcclung-archivist@knoxlib.org
Extent
3 boxes
General
Included in Linda Posey thesis of McClung Collection Manuscript holdings and the National Union Catalog of Manuscript Collections.
- Bolli family Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Brazil Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Buffat, Alfred Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Buffat, Elisa Bolli Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Buffat, Pierre Francois Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Buffat, Sylvie T. (Sylvie Tauxe) Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Chavannes family Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Coal Creek Valley Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Coal Creek War Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Esperandieu family Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Felicia Tauxe Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- French Swiss Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Memoirs Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Mills Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- P. F. Buffat Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Photographs Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Poetry Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Poetry Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Porta family Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Postmortem Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Railroads Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Receipts Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Sketch books Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Sketchbooks Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Spring Place Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Sterchi family Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Stock certificates Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Swiss Americans Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Switzerland Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Tauxe family Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Truan family Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- United States History Civil War, 1861-1865 Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Title
- Buffat Family Papers.
- Language of description
- Undetermined
- Script of description
- Code for undetermined script
Repository Details
Part of the Calvin M. McClung Historical Collection Repository
601 S Gay Street
3rd floor
Knoxville Tennessee 37902 United States
865.215.8814
mcclung-archivist@knoxlib.org
