United States -- Politics and government -- 1865-1900
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 4 Collections and/or Records:
Benjamin Butterworth papers
Collection
Call Number: MS 120
Overview:
Lawyer and politician. Scrapbooks of clippings and typed transcriptions of scrapbooks (1882-1898) concerning his career as lawyer, member of Congress from Ohio (1878-1882, 1886-1890) and commissioner of patents (1883-1885, 1897-1898). Included also are twenty letters which were originally part of the scrapbooks. Of these four are family correspondence (1857-1883) and the remainder are letters from political friends (1880-1898). The papers also contain the manuscript (typescript) introduction to...
Dates:
1857-1908, bulk 1861-1898
Found in:
Manuscripts and Archives
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Benjamin Butterworth papers
George Chorpenning papers
Collection
Call Number: WA MSS S-2767
Overview:
The papers consist of account books, financial records, legal records, correspondence, and maps that document George Chorpenning's operation of an overland mail route in western states during the 1850s, his subsequent petition to the United States government for reimbursement, and other business, including his interest in a quartz mine in Sparta, Oregon, owned by E. E. Clough. The papers include correspondence of Chorpenning's sons George and Frank relating to continued claims against the...
Dates:
1856-1903
William Graham Sumner papers
Collection
Call Number: MS 291
Overview:
The papers consist of correspondence, writings, notes and research materials, clippings, memorabilia, photographs and financial records of William Graham Sumner, a sociologist, professor at Yale University, and advocate of free trade and the gold standard. The correspondence (over 13,000 items) documents many of Sumner's interests including the Yale College curriculum and economic and political issues. It also includes substantive accounts from friends in the South about Reconstruction, the...
Dates:
1863-1946
Found in:
Manuscripts and Archives
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William Graham Sumner papers
Wetmore family papers
Collection
Call Number: MS 548
Overview:
The papers consist of materials relating to George Peabody Wetmore and his family. Correspondence and other papers document the lives of several of Wetmore's ancestors and reflect his interest in New England history. The papers also include letter books and account books of the mercantile firms of Prosper Wetmore & Brothers and Joseph and Joshua Grafton.
Dates:
1638-1921
Found in:
Manuscripts and Archives
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Wetmore family papers