Manuscript autobiography and related notes by Eugene E. Prussing (interleaved with photographs and clippings). Also clippings and letters relating to Prussing’s two books on George Washington, genealogical information about the Peltzer family, and a biography of father Ernst Prussing.

Eugene E. Prussing’s autobiography, entitled “An Attempt at an Autobiography,” spans his life from birth to approximately 1923 in two volumes. Family photographs and clippings are interspersed throughout the two volumes. The first volume includes a description of seeing Abraham Lincoln lying in state at the Court House, and a detailed account of fleeing the Great Chicago Fire in 1871. The second volume includes a short description of the 1893 World’s Fair, particularly regarding banking and trust companies.

Other materials include three volumes of autobiographical notes; an extensive genealogy of the Peltzer family and a typed biography of Prussing’s father, Ernst; and one folder of letters and clippings relating to Prussing’s George Washington writings.