Samuel McElroy with classmate at Princeton-tintype

This collection includes McElroy family correspondence, family photographs and scrapbooks, and McElroy's WWII military records. Some of the correspondence includes McElroy's wartime correspondence to his wife, Alma Millican McElroy. The papers of McElroy's father, Samuel Addison McElroy, comprise a small portion of the collection and relate life as a Presbyterian minister in small towns of the South. Genealogical material of the McElroy and Pinckney families of South Carolina (family of S.A. McElroy's wife, Eloise Richter McElroy, is also included.