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Barney, Hiram. Business ledgers of the White Elk vineyard, 1872, 1873, 1875, 1877, and 1878.

Title: Business ledgers of the White Elk vineyard, 1872, 1873, 1875, 1877, and 1878.

Account ledgers of the White Elk vineyard for the years 1872 (HB 5), 1873 (HB 6 & 7); 1875 (HB 8); 1877 (HB 9 & 10), and 1878 (HB 11). Also included is the account ledger of George B. Smyth & Co., a meat-packing company of Keokuk, Iowa for 1873-1874 (HB 12). The company was founded by George B. Smyth (1828 - 1909) in 1852, in partnership with A.L. Connable. In 1872, the company purchased five acres of land in West Keokuk and installed a large stone cold storage.

ArchivalResource: 8 ledgers

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Smithsonian Institution. Office of the Secretary. Correspondence, 1863-1879

Title: SIA RU000026, Smithsonian Institution Office of the Secretary, Correspondence, 1863-1879

This series consists mostly of correspondence addressed to Joseph Henry, much of which received his personal attention; also included are some copies of Henry letters, occasional returned original Henry letters, and a considerable number of letters to Spencer Fullerton Baird.

ArchivalResource: 59.56 cubic feet

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Allmand family. Papers, 1796-1891. Section 23.

Title: Papers, 1796-1891. Section 23.

Letters, 1859-1863, written to Caroline Allmand (of Norfolk, Va.) by Hiram Barney, J.T. Mason, and Levi C. Turner; letter, 1862, of John A. Bolles to Elizabeth F. (Allmand) Archer (enclosing a pass issued by the U.S. Army at Fortress Monroe, Va.); and a pass, 1862, issued to Mrs. Allmand by the U.S. Army (by authority of William E. Blake at Fortress Monroe, Va.).

ArchivalResource: 6 items.

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Barney, Hiram. Autograph letter signed : Keokuk, to W.W. Belknap, 1869 Nov. 6.

Title: Autograph letter signed : Keokuk, to W.W. Belknap, 1869 Nov. 6.

Congratulating him on his appointment as Secretary of War and his work in improving steamboat navigation on the Wisconsin and Fox rivers.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (4 p.) ; (12mo)

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Martin, M. L. (Morgan Lewis), 1805-1887. Morgan Martin papers, 1645-1931.

Title: Morgan Martin papers, 1645-1931.

Papers of a Wisconsin pioneer and land speculator who served in the Wisconsin Territorial Council, as Washington representative for Wisconsin Territory, president of the state constitutional convention, member of the state legislature, United States Army paymaster, Indian agent, and Brown County judge, including correspondence, diaries, accounts, land patents and other legal and business records, reminiscent articles by Martin, and reminiscences and a brief diary by Mrs. Martin. Business and personal correspondence, which forms the bulk of the collection, largely concerns legal problems, land grants and purchases, Indian affairs, the fur trade, governmental activities, and personal news. Among the early papers in the collection are a few relating to the fur trade, particularly the operations of the Abbott brothers, Samuel, James, and Robert, centering around Detroit and Mackinac, Michigan; controversies before the merger of fur companies in 1821; and the bankruptcy of the American Fur Company. Beginning with Martin's removal to Green Bay, Wisconsin in 1827 there are numerous business and legal papers relating to his work as an attorney for local and eastern clients, particularly as that of a collection agent. Legislative papers contain correspondence, 1845-1847, when he served as territorial representative in Washington, on Wisconsin problems such as land claims, mineral rights, pensions, appointments, elections, and internal improvements. Letters from constituents contain many references to Wisconsin politics. Letters during the Civil War describe his service as a United States army paymaster and after the Civil War deal with his problems as Indian agent for the Menominee, Stockbridge, and Oneida Indians and include comments on claims, annuities, and treaties. Correspondents include William Beaumont, Florimond Bonduel, Ramsay Crooks, Henry Dodge, George Dewey, Lucius Fairchild, Alexander J. Irwin, Andrew Jackson, James T. Lewis, Lucius Lyon, Philetus Sawyer, Horatio Seymour, John B. Sheldon, and Daniel Webster. Other papers contain information on the career of James D. Doty. Material on the Fox River Improvement Company includes correspondence with Hiram Barney, an Eastern investor in the company, some claims of Martin's against the state, and a few record books. After 1865, Martin's correspondence largely concerns the financial difficulties of the company and his efforts to meet his obligations which continued until his death. Martin was one of the promoters of the Bank of Wisconsin at Green Bay, Wisconsin and for a time its president. There are checks, notes, and drafts relating to this bank and to the Farmers' and Mechanics' Bank of Detroit, Michigan and letters by Henry Stringham, cashier of the Wisconsin bank, advising and commenting on banking practices. The development of the townsite of Milwaukee, Wisconsin is enlarged upon in communications from Solomon Juneau and others, and in records of sales of lots, tax receipts, and statements of accounts. References to Indian affairs are found in traders' claims, in a letter by George Boyd in 1841, and in some Stockbridge correspondence in the 1870s. Among miscellaneous subjects touched upon are Antimasonry in Michigan Territory, the organization of the Episcopal Church in Green Bay, Wisconsin, the building of the first Milwaukee, Wisconsin courthouse, lake transportation, and land sales in the Lake Michigan region. Personal papers include correspondence with relatives and friends in Martinsburgh, Lowville, and elsewhere in New York State, and scattered account books, 1836-1848. There are some reminiscent articles written by Martin towards the end of his life and a folder of rough drafts of reminiscences by Mrs. Martin. A group of letters, land patents, and other legal documents of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries relates to ancestors of Mr. and Mrs. Martin in the colony of New York prior to the American Revolution. Also present are diaries of Mrs. Martin (nee Elizabeth Smith) kept before and after her marriage. Letters from their son, Leonard Martin, describe the work and life of a surveyor of the Northern Pacific Railroad in Montana, 1871-1872. Letters, 1873-1874, received by Leonard concern his work as assistant engineer for the Fox River Improvement project of the U.S. government. The correspondence of daughters Deborah and Sarah Martin includes many letters pertaining to the State Historical Society of Wisconsin and notes, biographical sketches, and genealogical data relating to Brown County, Wisconsin. Some papers also support the disputed claim of Mrs. Martin's brother, Admiral Melancton Smith, to credit the capture of the rebel ram Manassas while he was serving as captain of the warship Mississippi. The processed portion is summarized above and is described in the register. Additional accessions date 1825-1885 and are described below.

ArchivalResource: 6.4 c.f. (15 archives boxes and 1 flat box) and.20 reels of microfilm (35 mm.); plusadditions of 0.8 c.f.

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Stevens, John Austin, 1795-1874. Papers, 1811-1885.

Title: Papers, 1811-1885.

Correspondence and papers, 1811-1885, related to the various interests and occupations of John Austin Stevens, Sr., businessman, president of the Bank of Commerce, the Merchants' Exchange Company, etc., and of his son, John Austin Stevens, Jr., financier, author, and secretary of the Chamber of Commerce, the National War Committee, the 1862 Treasury Note Committee, the Republican Committee, etc. There are groups of letters dealing with the constuction of Clinton Hall in 1829, construction of the Merchants' Exchange in 1837-1838, the 1837 economic depression and efforts to relieve it, banking legislation, and the financial affairs of Baring Brothers & Co., London, England, in late 1837 and early 1838, when Stevens went to New Orleans and Mobile to attend to their cotton and tobacco business there. This latter group includes an extensive correspondence with Thomas W. Ward of Boston, agent for Baring Brothers & Co., and with several other merchants, including Edward Austin and John E. Lodge, New Orleans; A. Battré, Mobile; Prime, Ward & King, New York; Ebenezer Stevens Sons, New York; Shaw, Dorman, & Horn, Mobile; and others. A volume of letters to Samuel B. Ruggles covers the dates 1834-1851. There are also letters, accounts, lists, etc., pertaining to a testimonial dinner in honor of William L. Marcy in 1857. Other important subjects in the correspondence include: the Buffalo, New York and Erie Rail Road Co. , throughout 1853-1863; a monument to James Fenimore Cooper, in 1859; and the New York City Republican Party campaigns of 1860 and 1864. There are many letters about state and national politics throughout the Civil War. George Gibbs, in Washington, writes frequently about the conduct of the war, the defense of Washington, the army and many other matters before and after the war. In 1861 the correspondence of the younger John Austin Stevens becomes more prominent, with many letters written by him to his father discussing politics in Washington, particularly the friction between Salmon Portland Chase and William Henry Seward over appointments. There are many letters to him from William Alexander, who writes on military and political events in Texas, Mexico, and New Orleans in 1863-1864. Other important subjects in his correspondence include the Treasury Note Committee; support of the Union; General Boulanger; patriotic organizations, such as the Loyal National League; historical organizations, such as the Loyal Publication Society, and patriotic celebrations, such as the centennial of Evacuation Day. There are also several volumes of correspondence related to the Magazine of American History, which he edited. A number of notebooks relate to his researches on New York City taverns, coffee-houses, horse racing, etc. There are also manuscripts of the following addresses read by Stevens before the New-York Historical Society: The Physical development of New York in the 19th century; The Merchants of New York in 1789; The Physical development of New York on the plan of the Commisioners, a centennial contrast, 1807-1907; The Merchants of New York, 1765-1775; George Gibbs; The Progress of New York in a century, 1776-1876; and The New York delegation to the Continental Congress, 1774-1776. Other people whose letters appear frequently include: Benjamin Vaughan, Samuel Ward of Newport (R.I.), J.B. Plumb of Albany, S.A. Mercer of Philadelphia, William Appleton, John V.N.L. Pruyn, Charles A. Heckscher, James A. Hamilton, Salmon Portland Chase, Pelatiah Perit, Robert Bowne Minturn, Hiram Barney, Henry F. Vail, H.R. Low, George Opdyke, Francis Lieber, Andrew Jackson Hamilton, Thomas B. Carroll, Charles W. Le Gendre, Captain Emeric Szabad, George Stoneman, E.L. Plumb, Roscoe Conkling, Gilbert R. Lindsay, Jr., Charles Sumner, Edgar Conkling, Henry Winter Davis, Whitelaw Reid, Sydney Howard Gay, A.A. Low, Benjamin D. Silliman, John Jay (1817-1894), John W. Forney, and Victor Faides.

ArchivalResource: 21.5 linear feet.

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Chase, Salmon P. (Salmon Portland), 1808-1873. Letter press book of the Secretary of the Treasury. 1863, June 1 -- Dec. 31.

Title: Letter press book of the Secretary of the Treasury. 1863, June 1 -- Dec. 31.

Letterpress copybook containing telegrams sent and received by the Secretary of the Treasury between June 1, 1863 and Jan. 1, 1864. The correspondents include members of the military command, legislators, collectors of the customs of New York, San Francisco, and Portland (Me), the Treasury employees, lawyers, businessmen, etc. The telegrams concern collection of the duties, including those imposed on the sales of arms and supplies for the army, Southern cotton, and whiskey; regulations of the shipment of goods, including in the areas that are "within reach of the rebels" and Lincoln's ban on a sale of Prussian arms to Guatemala and shipment of livestock; revenue steamers; bids on government contracts; design and printing of fifty and hunderd dollar denomination greenbacks and arrests of counterfeiters; appointments of collectors and other personnel issues. Also discusses are the conflict over Farralon Islands (San Francisco); Pennsylvnia during the Gettysburg campaing (including a proposal to "form a company for city defense made up in part of revenue officers" of Philadelphia); draft riots in New York, the question of opening of the Mississippi for commercial shipping in the wake of the victory at Vicksburg; Lincoln's push for restoring legislative and judicial authority in Florida, Mississippi, and other Southern states under the Union control; providing arms for the Pacific Mail Steamship Company, etc.

ArchivalResource: 1 letterpress book, 26 cm. with received telegrams pasted in.

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Barney, Hiram. Letter to David W. Kilbourn[e], New York, 1844, September 3. [holograph].

Title: Letter to David W. Kilbourn[e], New York, 1844, September 3. [holograph].

Letter discussing the sale of lands in Keokuk, Iowa.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (2 p.)

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Smithsonian Institution Annual Report. 1862.0.

Title: Smithsonian Institution Annual Report. 1862.0.

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Houghton Library printed book provenance file, A-D

Title: Houghton Library printed book provenance file, A-D

Index to ownership/provenance information, primarily from printed books, held by Houghton Library.

ArchivalResource: 1 collection

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Eugene A. Kozlay Papers, 1860-1878

Title: Eugene A. Kozlay Papers 1860-1878

Papers of the Union Army officer (ca. 1828-1883). Kozlay was a colonel in the 54th New York Volunteers. Scrapbook of incoming letters, documents, military telegrams, and orders, relating to Kozlay's military service. Letters from Hiram Barney, F.W. Seward, R.A. Witthaus, and others.

ArchivalResource: 0.5 linear ft.

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Barney, Hiram. Papers of Hiram Barney, 1772-1924 (bulk 1836-1894).

Title: Papers of Hiram Barney, 1772-1924 (bulk 1836-1894).

Political, business, legal, and family papers concern a wide variety of subjects including real estate, primarily in Iowa, and New York; court cases (often pertaining to the debt collection) and other legal services; politics generally, but especially patronage distribution; family affairs, business transactions concerning the Erie and other canals; small railroads (largely in the Lake Plains region); Mexico and Mexican-American relations; the Civil War; U.S. Customs Service.

ArchivalResource: ca. 8300 pieces.41 boxes.

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Barney (Hiram) Collection, 1772-1924, bulk 1836-1894

Title: Barney (Hiram) Collection, 1772-1924, bulk 1836-1894

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New York (State). Courts: Supreme Court. Daniel Gardner, agt. Willism B. Ogden and Henry Smith.

Title: Daniel Gardner, agt. Willism B. Ogden and Henry Smith. [1856]

ArchivalResource: 138 p. plans. 8vo.

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Salmon P. Chase Papers

Title: Salmon P. Chase Papers

Salmon P. Chase (1808-1873) was a career politician and an influential Union decision-maker during the Civil War. He served as governor of Ohio, U.S. senator, secretary of the Treasury, and Supreme Court chief justice. The Salmon P. Chase Papers, which span the years 1824-1884, provide tremendous insight into the professional life of Chase and provide information on the National Bank and specie debates, as well as the abolition movement from the early 1820s through the Civil War. This collection contains correspondence, speech notes, newspaper clippings, biographical material, court opinions, financial papers, and a myriad of miscellaneous items. In addition to containing Chase's papers, this collection also contains the papers of J. W. Schuckers, Chase's personal secretary and biographer. Schuckers’s papers give further insight into the economic situation immediately following the Civil War and include correspondence, newspapers, investments records, and other financial papers.

ArchivalResource: 12.0 Linear feet ; 43 boxes; 16 volumes; 10 flat files

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Schuckers, J. W. (Jacob William), 1831-1901. Papers of Jacob William Schuckers, 1862-1899.

Title: Papers of Jacob William Schuckers, 1862-1899.

Correspondence, notes, extracts, memoranda; mss. of articles and addresses; fragments, clippings, and other printed matter, relating to national fiscal policy, impeachment proceedings against President Andrew Johnson, and to Chase's life and career. Includes a few papers of Hiram Barney, who figured prominently in events leading to Chase's resignation as Secretary of the Treasury in Lincoln's cabinet. Correspondents include Kate Chase Sprague, Charles Anderson Dana, Fitz-John Porter, and Edmund Gibson Ross.

ArchivalResource: 200 items.1 container.

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Hale, John P. (John Parker), 1806-1873. John P. Hale letter to H. Barney, 1853 Aug. 20.

Title: John P. Hale letter to H. Barney, 1853 Aug. 20.

Letter from Hale to Barney regarding Hale's plans to travel to the convention at Syracuse, N.Y.

ArchivalResource: 1 item.

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Chase, Salmon P. (Salmon Portland), 1808-1873. Salmon P. Chase letters, 1861-1872.

Title: Salmon P. Chase letters, 1861-1872.

Letter from Chase to an unidentified addressee, dated Oct. 28, 1872, recommending a biography of Rutledge; official letter signed by Chase, dated Nov. 26, 1861, directing Collector of the Customs Hiram Barney to allow entry to items imported by J.L. and D.S. Riker; official letter signed by Chase, dated Aug. 8, 1862, ordering Capt. John Faunce to report to Hiram Barney for special duty; and letter to Messrs. Ticknor, Fields & Co., dated April 13, 1866, thanking them and a Mr. Marshall for a portrait of Abraham Lincoln.

ArchivalResource: 4 items.

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Barney, Hiram. Letterbooks of Hiram Barney, 1861-1877.

Title: Letterbooks of Hiram Barney, 1861-1877.

Two letterbooks containing Barney's business and private letters written between 1861 and 1877. Correspondents include Capt. James H. Barker of Keokuk, Iowa, D.W. Kilbourne, Horatio Seymour, H. J. Reid, Elijah G. Barney, George Harrington, Erastus Corning, and others. The first letterbook (HM 70911) covers the period from July 20, 186 to Jan. 23, 1871. The second letterbook is a letterpress book (Henry Anstice & Co., Stationers) that contains letters written between Feb. 5, 1871, Feb. 5 and Apr. 27, 1877. Also included is a copy of the 1861 Tariff (Mar. 13, 1861), with pasted Circular Instructions to Collectors and other Officers of the Customs (Mar. 21, 1861) and with notes by Hiram Barney and notes and reports from various customs officers (1861) (HM 70910). The group also contains a carte-de-visite photograph of Hiram Barney (Brady's National Photographc Portrait Galleries), inscribed to Mrs. Buell and books from Barney's library, including the following: Bruce, Hamilton. The warehouse manual, and general custom house guide .. (New York, 1862) and The Charter and Constitution of the Athenaeum Association, with a list of the Members. (New York, 1864). Also included are photocopies of letters addressed to Maginel Wright Barney (1922), documents related to Barney's estate, and miscellaneous items concerning Barney's son Hiram Barney, Jr.

ArchivalResource: 3 letterbooks; also photographs, printed materials, and ephemera.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/310982683 View