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Andrews, C. C. (Christopher Columbus), 1829-1922. C.C. Andrews and family papers, 1843-1930.

Title: C.C. Andrews and family papers, 1843-1930.

Correspondence, diaries, and other papers of this Civil War general, United States minister to Norway and Sweden (1869-1877), consul general to Brazil (1882-1885), chief fire warden of Minnesota (1895-1905), state forestry commissioner (1905-1911), and member of the state forestry board (1905-1922).

ArchivalResource: 9.0 cu. ft. (16 boxes, incl. 126 v.)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122614818 View

Edwards, Charles Goodell, 1837-1914. Charles G. Edwards papers, 1889-1907.

Title: Charles G. Edwards papers, 1889-1907.

A survey notebook (1896-1903) presumably of Edwards' lands in Polk, Pope, Swift, Hubbard, Marshall, Red Lake, Chippewa and Kandiyohi counties (Minn.); two letterpress books (1896-1907) relating primarily to the sale of and taxes paid on Edwards' landholdings in these counties, but including some personal letters; and four telegrams (1889) from Senator William D. Washburn to Edwards, seemingly concerning the appointment of a deputy collector of customs.

ArchivalResource: 1 folder, containing 4 items and 3 v.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122474118 View

Minnesota Woman Suffrage Association records, 1894-1923 [microform].

Title: Minnesota Woman Suffrage Association records, 1894-1923 [microform].

Correspondence, minutes and other record books, subject files, printed materials, newspaper clippings, scrapbooks, and miscellany of this organization formed to promote equal voting rights for women. Most post-date 1900. They provide information on the MWSA's organizational work at the state, district, and local levels; on public attitudes toward suffrage issues; on life in small-town Minnesota; on interstate cooperation among suffrage groups; on the role of various non-suffrage organizations in the movement; and on suffrage and related bills introduced into the Minnesota legislature. There is a history of woman suffrage in Minnesota, by Julia B. Nelson (ca. 1900); data on a convention of the Mississippi Valley Suffrage Association (1916); an extensive file of pro- and anti-suffrage literature; and information on peace, temperance, child welfare, women's rights, voter education, and other issues of interest to the suffragists. Primary correspondents include officers and members of the MWSA and of similar groups in Minnesota and other states, and state and national politicians and other public figures. They include Clara Ueland, Alice Hall, Maud Stockwell, Bertha Moller, Rene E. H. Stevens, Carrie Chapman Catt, Anna H. Shaw, Jane Addams, Harriet Taylor Upton, William D. Washburn, Charles Pillsbury, and Marion D. Shutter. Also present are some records of the Hennepin County Suffrage Association, the Scandinavian Woman Suffrage Association, and the Minnesota League of Women Voters.

ArchivalResource: 18 microfilm reels, 17 boxes, 1 folder, and 1 oversize folder.

http://www2.mnhs.org/library/findaids/00756.xml View

Lind, John, 1854-1930. John and Norman Lind papers, 1870-1933.

Title: John and Norman Lind papers, 1870-1933.

The John and Norman Lind papers comprise the papers of John Lind, congressman (1883-1897 and 1903-1905), Minnesota governor (1899-1901), and special agent to Mexico (1913-1914), as well as the papers of his eldest son, Norman, a lumbering and shipping entrepreneur.

ArchivalResource: 7.0 cu. ft. (7 boxes)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/313849601 View

Day, Frank A. (Frank Arah), 1855-1928. Frank A. Day papers, 1889-1928.

Title: Frank A. Day papers, 1889-1928.

Correspondence, clippings, financial papers, and other items relating to Day, a Fairmont (Martin County, Minn.) newspaper editor who served in the Minnesota legislature (1878, 1887-1895, 1926-1928), as lieutenant governor (1895-1897), as private secretary to Governor John A. Johnson (1905-1909), and as a member of the board of visitors of the State Board of Control (1923-1926). Most of the papers consist of letters from other journalists and politicians, concentrated in the years 1894-1897, 1915-1916, and 1923-1927.

ArchivalResource: 2.0 cu. ft. (5 boxes).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122508184 View

Cooley, Thomas McIntyre, 1824-1898. Thomas McIntyre Cooley papers, 1850-1898.

Title: Thomas McIntyre Cooley papers, 1850-1898.

Correspondence, notes, addresses, lectures, diaries, relating primarily to his publications, the Interstate Commerce Commission, the University of Michigan, state and national politics, American history, constitutional questions, lecture engagements, and personal and family affairs; and photographs. Correspondents include: Henry C. Adams, Russell A. Alger, Alexis C. Angell, James B. Angell, Henry P. Baldwin, Simeon E. Baldwin, Levi L. Barbour, B. L. Baxter, Charles F. Beach, Jr., Josiah W. Begole, John Bersey, Melville M. Bigelow, Austin Blair, James R. Boise, W. L. Bragg, Henry B. Brown, James Bryce, Richard A. Bury, Henry M. Campbell, James H. Campbell, James V. Campbell, Lewis Cass, John W. Champlin, Zachariah Chandler, Henry A. Chaney, Salmon P. Chase, G. C. Christiancy, Isaac P. Christiancy, James Clements, Grover Cleveland, Lemuel Clute, Charles C. Cole, Charles H. Cooley, Edgar A. Cooley, Shelby M. Cullom, Byron M. Cutcheon, W. D. Dabney, Donald M. Dickinson, Jacob P. Dunn, Richard T. Ely, Elon Farnsworth, Albert Fink, William F. Ford, Daniel C. Gilman, Washington Gladden, Claudius B. Grant, Benjamin F. Graves, Israel Hall, William G. Hammond, Benjamin Harrison, John S. Hawks, Edward O. Hinkley, John Hinkley, Henry Hitchcock, George Hoar, Oliver W. Holmes, Jr., Charles C. Hopkins, Fred S. Hubbard, Harry B. Hutchins, Albert P. Jacobs, David H. Jerome, Harry D. Jewell, Charles N. Jones, Charles A. Kent, Edward D. Kinne, Otto Kirchner, Daniel S. Lamont. Correspondents include: William MacKenzie, Isaac Marston, Andrew C. Maxwell, Elijah W. Meddaugh, Martin V. Montgomery, Thomas C. Moore, William R. Morrison, Edward A. Moseley, Thomas J. O'Brien, Warren Olney, Russell C. Ostrander, Walter H. Page, Thomas W. Palmer, Allen B. Pond, Elihu B. Pond, Eugene B. Prussing, Roger A. Pryor, Francis Rawle, John T. Rich, Henry W. Rogers, Alfred Russell, Andrew J. Sawyer, Augustus Schoonmaker, Carl Schurz, Edwin R. A. Seligman, William H. Seward, William H. Stevenson, Ralph Stone, Moses Taggart, Henry P. Tappan, Harriet A. Tenney, Lyman Trumbull, Moses C. Tyler, Philip T. Van Zile, Aldace F. Walker, Bryant Walker, George P. Wanty, William F. Warren, William D. Washburn, Andrew D. White, and Moses Wisner.

ArchivalResource: 8 linear ft. and 1 v. [outsize].

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/82799037 View

Dorilus Morrison and family papers, 1706-1913.

Title: Dorilus Morrison and family papers, 1706-1913.

Letters, deeds, leases, financial records, clippings, genealogical data, and other papers of Morrison, a Minneapolis businessman, mayor (1867), and state senator (1864-1865), of his wife, Harriet K. Whitmore, and of other family members.

ArchivalResource: 1.75 cu. ft. (4 boxes; 4 oversize items; 10 items and 1 v. in Reserve)

http://www2.mnhs.org/library/findaids/01036.xml View

Thomas M. Cooley Papers, 1850-1898

Title: Thomas M. Cooley Papers 1850-1898

Professor of Law and American History at the University of Michigan, Michigan Supreme Court Justice, and chairman of the Interstate Commerce Commission. Papers include correspondence, diaries, lectures, notes and photographs.

ArchivalResource: 3 linear ft.

http://quod.lib.umich.edu/b/bhlead/umich-bhl-851316?rgn=main;view=text View

John and Norman Lind papers., 1870-1933.

Title: John and Norman Lindpapers. 1870-1933.

The John and Norman Lind papers comprise the papers of JohnLind, congressman (1883-1897 and 1903-1905), Minnesota governor (1899-1901), andspecial agent to Mexico (1913-1914), as well as the papers of his eldest son,Norman, a lumbering and shipping entrepreneur.

ArchivalResource:

http://www.mnhs.org/library/findaids/00304.xml View

William D. Hale and family papers., 1819-1914.

Title: William D. Hale and family papers. 1819-1914.

The collection includes correspondence and miscellaneous papers, business records, and William D. Hale’s diaries. Correspondence covers a range of topics from the milling, lumbering, banking, and railway interests of William D. Hale and William D. Washburn to William Hale’s career with the Third Minnesota Volunteer Regiment and the Fourth United States Colored Artillery.

ArchivalResource:

http://www.mnhs.org/library/findaids/00871.xml View

Washburn family correspondence., 1833-1882.

Title: Washburn family correspondence. 1833-1882.

Letters to Washburn, a Hallowell (Me.) banker, from several family members, especially his brothers Elihu Washburne, U.S. politician and statesman, and William Drew Washburn, a Minneapolis lumber and flour miller and a U.S. congressman and senator.

ArchivalResource:

http://www.mnhs.org/library/findaids/P2235.xml View

Frank A. Carle papers., 1884-1927.

Title: Frank A. Carle papers. 1884-1927.

The collection documents Carle's career as a journalist inIndianapolis, St. Paul, Portland (Ore.), and Minneapolis; his acquaintances withmany prominent politicians, journalists, and artists; his attendance at nationalpolitical conventions beginning in 1876; his European and other foreign travels(1911-1913); his philosophy of life; and his reactions to the many events of hislifetime.

ArchivalResource:

http://www.mnhs.org/library/findaids/p2261.xml View

Washburn, Stanley, 1878-1950. Stanley Washburn papers, [ca. 1890]-1977.

Title: Stanley Washburn papers, [ca. 1890]-1977.

Scrapbooks, book manuscripts, newspaper clippings, and correspondence relating primarily to Washburn's career as a war correspondent for the Chicago Daily News in the Russo-Japanese War (1904-1905) and on the Russian front during World War I in various capacities and his experiences as an explorer in Canada; correspondence (mainly 1920s-1950) regarding personal matters, business interests, and U.S. foreign policy; and information on his political campaigns and on "home front" activities during World War II.

ArchivalResource: 11.5 cu. ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122588766 View

Century Company records

Title: Century Company records

The Century Company published the Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine, which was widely regarded as the best general periodical of its time, performing a role as cultural arbiter during the 1880s and 1890s. It was founded in New York City in 1881 and also published the children's magazine St. Nicholas, dictionaries, and books. The Century Company records date from 1870 to the 1930s and chiefly contain correspondence with contributors, readers, public figures, and literary agents. A number of manuscripts and proofs in the collection are extensively edited and taken with annotations on letters provide a detailed record of the outlook, standards, and functions of the company.

ArchivalResource: 60.4 linear feet; 151 boxes

http://archives.nypl.org/mss/504 View

McLain, John Scudder, 1853-1931. John S. McLain correspondence, 1879-1927.

Title: John S. McLain correspondence, 1879-1927.

Letters received by McLain, as editor of the Kansas City Journal (1878-1881), the Minneapolis Journal (1885-1908), the St. Paul Dispatch (1908-1912), and other newspapers, from various editors and public officials commenting on his editorial views and news coverage. Correspondents include William W. Folwell, Warren G. Harding, Delos W. Lovelace, Knute Nelson, William H. Taft, Oswald G. Villard, and William D. Washburn.

ArchivalResource: 40 items in 1 folder.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/86147596 View

Minnesota Woman Suffrage Association. Records, 1894-1923

Title: Association records,[microform]. 1894-1923.

Correspondence, minutes and other record books, subjectfiles, printed materials, newspaper clippings, scrapbooks, and miscellany of thisorganization formed to promote equal voting rights for women. Most post-date1900.

ArchivalResource: 18 microfilm reels, 6 boxes, and 1 oversize folder.

http://www.mnhs.org/library/findaids/00756.xml View

Davis, Cushman Kellogg, 1838-1900. Cushman K. Davis papers 1886-1900.

Title: Cushman K. Davis papers 1886-1900.

Cushman Kellogg Davis's letters provide insights into state-level Minnesota politics, as well as the national political scene, from the perspective of a U.S. senator in the late 1800s.

ArchivalResource: 150 items (0.5 linear feet)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/248929496 View

Donnelly vs. Washburn.

Title: Donnelly vs. Washburn. [1878?-1880]

ArchivalResource: 4 pamphlets in 1 v. ; 23 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/21217926 View

Hay, Eugene Gano, 1853-1933. Eugene G. Hay papers, 1891, 1901.

Title: Eugene G. Hay papers, 1891, 1901.

Typed letter (1891) from Senator W.D. (William Drew) Washburn to Hay on United States Senate letterhead reminiscing about his vote on the Force Bill (Compromise of 1890, involving the McKinley tariff, the Sherman Silver Act, and the Federal Elections Bill), mentioning Abraham Lincoln, Ignatius Donnelly, and a host of other politicians and Minneapolis businessmen. The collection also includes letters (1901) received by Hay as attorney for William D. Hale, receiver of the American Savings and Loan Association of Minneapolis, in regard to the settlement of accounts; and an article on the engineer units of the United States National Guard.

ArchivalResource: 17 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122659157 View

Records of the Office of the Chief of Engineers. 1789 - 1999. Letters Received

Title: Records of the Office of the Chief of Engineers. 1789 - 1999. Letters Received

ArchivalResource:

https://catalog.archives.gov/id/1752479 View

Jaffray, C. T. (Clive T.), 1865-1956. Clive T. Jaffray reminiscences, 1956.

Title: Clive T. Jaffray reminiscences, 1956.

A Minneapolis banker and business leader, Jaffray discusses his youth in Ontario; his association (1887-1956) with the Northwestern National and the First National banks in Minneapolis, and his presidency of the latter (1917-1924); Minneapolis businessmen, businesses, and railroads, especially the Minneapolis, St. Paul and Sault Ste. Marie Railway Company, of which he was president (1924-1937); bank mergers in Minnesota and North and South Dakota; his organization (1920s) of the Agricultural Credit Corporation to lend money to rural banks and farmers; and his interests in hunting and sports.

ArchivalResource: 86 p.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122568085 View

Cushman K. Davis papers 1886-1900 Davis, Cushman K.

Title: Cushman K. Davis papers 1886-1900 Davis, Cushman K.

Cushman Kellogg Davis's letters provide insights into state-level Minnesota politics, as well as the national political scene, from the perspective of a U.S. senator in the late 1800s.

ArchivalResource: 150 items (0.5 linear feet)

http://quod.lib.umich.edu/c/clementsead/umich-wcl-M-2743dav?rgn=main;view=text View

Carle, Frank Austin, 1851-1930. Frank A. Carle papers, 1884-1927.

Title: Frank A. Carle papers, 1884-1927.

Biographical information; correspondence (undated and 1884-1924); typescript articles by Carle on a variety of topics (undated and 1897-1927); newspaper clippings (undated and 1902-1927) containing articles by Carle; and his reminiscences: "Forty Years in Journalism, 1872-1912."

ArchivalResource: 0.4 cu. ft. (1 box).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/313854573 View

Hale, William Dinsmore, 1836-1915. William D. Hale and family papers, 1819-1914.

Title: William D. Hale and family papers, 1819-1914.

The collection includes correspondence and miscellaneous papers, business records, and William D. Hale's diaries. Correspondence covers a range of topics from the milling, lumbering, banking, and railway interests of William D. Hale and William D. Washburn and Hale's mining interests in Arizona and Nevada to William Hale's career with the Third Minnesota Volunteer Regiment and the Fourth United States Colored Artillery. Business records (journals, ledgers, account books, letter books, and others) were kept by Hale mostly as receiver of the American Savings and Loan Association of Minneapolis (1887-1902).

ArchivalResource: 17.0 cubic feet (22 boxes and 4 items in Reserve), and 1 microfilm reel.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122560027 View

Brackett, George Augustus, 1836-1921. George A. Brackett papers, 1858-1920.

Title: George A. Brackett papers, 1858-1920.

Correspondence and letterpress books, accounting records (1871-1905), newspaper clippings, deeds and other property records, and related materials documenting the life of a Minneapolis businessman and civic leader whose business enterprises included railroad construction, meat packing, flour milling, and real estate investment.

ArchivalResource: 9.5 cu. ft. (11 boxes, including 32 v., and 1 unboxed folder).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122508647 View

Crosby, John, 1867-1962. Interview, 1955.

Title: Interview, 1955.

A typewritten transcript of an interview between John Crosby and Lucile Kane of the Minnesota Historical Society. John Crosby describes briefly his father's business relationship with William D. Washburn, C. C. Washburn, and William H. Dunwoody; the formation of the Washburn-Crosby Company; the investment by the British Syndicate in the company; and the Dunwoody Institute.

ArchivalResource: 9 leaves.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/313858114 View

St. Paul District records., 1879-1990.

Title: St. Paul District records. 1879-1990.

Permit files, project maps, correspondence, and other records of the St. Paul district office of the United States Army Corps of Engineers, a major army command that provides engineering services for the United States Army and Air Force and is also involved in water-related civil engineering work.

ArchivalResource:

http://www.mnhs.org/library/findaids/00505.xml View

United States. Army. Corps of Engineers. St. Paul District. District Office records, 1879-1990.

Title: District Office records, 1879-1990.

Permit files, project maps, correspondence, and other records of the St. Paul district office of the United States Army Corps of Engineers, a major army command that provides engineering services for the United States Army and Air Force and is also involved in water-related civil engineering work. Includes reports, blueprints, petitions, plans, bridge specifications, engineering maps, mechanical drawings, and other material relating to bridge administration, harbor and flood control projects, civil engineering projects, and other matters. Some of the material is on microfilm.

ArchivalResource: 2.5 cu. ft. (3 boxes and 2 microfilm reels).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/313827855 View

Pettit, Curtis Hussey, 1833-1914. Curtis H. Pettit papers, 1853-1904.

Title: Curtis H. Pettit papers, 1853-1904.

Business records of this Minneapolis (Minn.) merchant, miller, and dealer in real estate, including deeds to land, mainly in Hennepin County; letters from Ignatius Donnelly, James J. Hill, William Pettit, Joshua Sharp, and William D. Washburn relating to the Civil War, to economic conditions in the United States, and to Minnesota politics; typewritten extracts of Pettit's diaries (1855-1856), revealing his interest in the development of Glencoe (Minn.) and giving information about Minneapolis social and business life; and a record book of the trustees of the Mill Disaster Relief Fund of Minneapolis, 1878.

ArchivalResource: 0.75 cu. ft. (2 boxes, incl. 3 v.).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122524336 View

Ralph Waldo Emerson letters from various correspondents, ca. 1814-1882.

Title: Ralph Waldo Emerson letters from various correspondents, ca. 1814-1882.

Letters from colleagues and friends to American Transcendentalist, essayist, poet, and philosopher, Ralph Waldo Emerson.

ArchivalResource: 36 boxes (12 linear ft.)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou00123/catalog View

Thurston, John H. (John Henry), 1832-1902. John H. Thurston papers, 1860, 1861, 1878-1889.

Title: John H. Thurston papers, 1860, 1861, 1878-1889.

Mainly letters received by Thurston as secretary of the Old Settlers' Association of Dakota County (Minn.) from David Day, Alexander and William R. Faribault, Auguste L. Larpenteur, Henry M. Rice, Henry H. Sibley, John H. Stevens, William D. Washburn, and others, discussing the early history of Mendota and Dakota County, and acknowledging invitations.

ArchivalResource: 20 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/313848760 View

Dollenmayer, Albert, 1862-1949. Albert Dollenmayer and family papers, 1865-1938.

Title: Albert Dollenmayer and family papers, 1865-1938.

Letters, diaries, scrapbooks, and account books, concentrated largely in the 1880-1898 period. For the years 1879-1884, when Dollenmayer was an enlisted man in the United States Army, his correspondence with military colleagues describes life at Jefferson Barracks (Missouri), Fort Sully (Dakota Territory), and Fort Russell (Wyoming Territory), as well as a Texas surveying expedition (1881). There is information on his subsequent career in Minneapolis (Minn.) as a newspaper reporter (1888-1898), and on Minnesota and North Dakota politics.

ArchivalResource: 3.0 cu. ft. (7 boxes, incl. 24 v.).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122568653 View

North Star Woolen Mill Company (Minneapolis, Minn.). Company records, 1869-1941.

Title: Company records, 1869-1941.

Records of this woolen goods company that was organized in 1864, incorporated in 1881, and in operation into the 1940s. They consist of labor books (1874-1876), sales books (1877-1880), wool books (1877-1881, 1907-1918), a microfilmed minute book (1881-1941), and a few legal papers, patents, and miscellany.

ArchivalResource: 1.5 cu. ft. (1 box, containing 3 folders and 2 v.; 3 v. shelved loose); and 1 microfilm reel.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122474938 View

Washburn, C. C. (Cadwallader Colden), 1818-1882. C. C. Washburn letters received, 1869.

Title: C. C. Washburn letters received, 1869.

Seventeen photocopied letters (April 26-August 31, 1869) from W. D. Washburn (Minneapolis), to his brother Cadwallader, in Wisconsin, relating to their lumbering and flour milling interests in Wisconsin and Minnesota.

ArchivalResource: 1 folder, containing 19 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/313847969 View

United States. Congress (46th, 1st session : 1879) House. Certified bill, 1879, 1892.

Title: Certified bill, 1879, 1892.

A copy of H.R. 1153, "A Bill to restore to the public domain a part of the military reservation known as the Fort Ripley reservation in the state of Minnesota..." This bill, dated April 21, 1879, was introduced by Mr. Washburn (William D. Washburn) in the House of Representatives, 1st Session, 46th Congress and referred to the Committee on Public Lands. Attached to the bill is a statement certifying that it is a true copy of the original bill. The statement is signed and sealed by James Kerr, Clerk of the House of Representatives, and dated July 16, 1892.

ArchivalResource: 1 item.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122509143 View

De la Barre, William, 1849-1936. William De la Barre papers, 1861-1924.

Title: William De la Barre papers, 1861-1924.

Correspondence, clippings, diaries, articles, and other papers relating to De la Barre, an engineer who emigrated from Austria in 1867, worked in Philadelphia for ten years, and from 1878 to 1923 was employed by Minneapolis water-power owners and grain millers, particularly by Cadwallader C. and William D. Washburn.

ArchivalResource: 0.5 cu. ft. (1 box).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122508207 View

Willard, John A., 1833-1897. John A. Willard correspondence, 1891.

Title: John A. Willard correspondence, 1891.

Letters to Willard, a Mankato (Minn.) banker and manufacturer, by Cushman K. Davis, John Lind, and William D. Washburn, discussing the possible effects of a bill to authorize the free coinage of silver.

ArchivalResource: 3 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122580769 View

Washburn, C. C. (Cadwallader Colden), 1818-1882. Papers, 1844-1941.

Title: Papers, 1844-1941.

Papers of Cadwallader Colden Washburn, a Wisconsin businessman; Congressman, 1855-1861, 1867-1871; Civil War officer; and governor, 1871-1874; consisting largely of personal letters from various members of his family, especially Elihu B. Washburne, a brother. The correspondence relates to the land and collection agency and law business of the firm of Washburn and Woodman at Mineral Point, Wisconsin, the lead shot manufacturing interests of the firm at Helena, Wisconsin, and the establishment of the Bank of Hallowell, in Maine. Also included are miscellaneous business papers of the Washburn-Crosby Company mills and the genealogical research of Jeannette (Washburn) Kelsey. From 1861 to 1865, there are military papers and correspondence relating to the sale at Helena, Arkansas, of government cotton, and military operations in Arkansas and Texas. Letters in 1869 from William D. Washburn of the Lincoln Mills at Minneapolis concern a proposal to acquire the site for a dam near Pokegama Falls, Minnesota. Numerous letters from Elihu B. Washburne, ambassador at Paris from 1869 to 1877, comment upon the siege of Paris, diplomatic matters, and American politics generally. Other letters, beginning about 1873, deal with family finances, and a few relate to whiskey ring frauds. They include miscellaneous business papers of the Washburn-Crosby Company mills and the genealogical research of Jeannette (Washburn) Kelsey.

ArchivalResource: 0.6 c.f. (2 archives boxes); plusadditions of 0.9 c.f. and37 photographs.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/173702286 View

Washburn, Algernon Sidney, 1814-1879. Washburn family correspondence, 1833-1882.

Title: Washburn family correspondence, 1833-1882.

Letters to Washburn, a Hallowell (Me.) banker, from several family members, especially his brothers Elihu Washburne, U.S. politician and statesman, and William Drew Washburn, a Minneapolis lumber and flour miller and a U.S. congressman and senator. The letters contain information on family affairs, the business careers of Elihu and William, economic conditions, politics, and social life.

ArchivalResource: 0.25 cu. ft. (1 box)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/38367531 View

John A. Willard correspondence, 1891.

Title: John A. Willard correspondence, 1891.

Three letters (1891) written to Willard (Mankato) fromUnited States Senators Cushman K. Davis and William D. Washburn and RepresentativeJohn Line, stating their objections to the proposed free coinage of silverlegislation before Congress. Also included is an obituary (Dec. 16, 1897) ofWillard.

ArchivalResource:

http://www.mnhs.org/library/findaids/P2294.xml View