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Records of Governor Lucius F. Hubbard, 1882-1891 (bulk 1882-1887).

Title: Records of Governor Lucius F. Hubbard, 1882-1891 (bulk 1882-1887).

Assorted files on public policy matters, including materials relating to State Capitol construction, public lands, pardons, applications for and appointments to office, Ojibwe Indian affairs, World's Industrial and Cotton Centennial Exposition in New Orleans, and tornadoes ("cyclones") in the St. Cloud and Sauk Rapids vicinity (1886). Some materials date from the administrations of Andrew R. McGill and William R. Merriam.

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Brandborg, Charles W., 1847-1916. Charles W. Brandborg and family papers, 1887-1977.

Title: Charles W. Brandborg and family papers, 1887-1977.

Correspondence relating to the Farmers' Alliance in Minnesota, politics in general, liberal newspapers, wheat prices, the elections of 1888, 1890, and 1892, Ignatius Donnelly, and Solomon G. Comstock. Included also are clippings, pamphlets, and speeches with information on the Socialist Labor Party and national third-party movements; some data on forest management issues (1969-1970); and family biographical and genealogical data.

ArchivalResource: 0.75 cu. ft. (3 boxes)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122564489 View

Minnesota. Governor (1889-1893 : Merriam). Records of Governor William R. Merriam, 1888-1901 (bulk 1888-1893).

Title: Records of Governor William R. Merriam, 1888-1901 (bulk 1888-1893).

Assorted files on public policy matters, including materials relating to grasshopper relief, applications for and appointments to office, and grain inspection.

ArchivalResource: 3.7 cu. ft. (3 boxes and 2 partial boxes).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/313807741 View

Leonard, W. H. (William Huntington), 1825-1907. William H. Leonard and family papers, 1843-1955.

Title: William H. Leonard and family papers, 1843-1955.

Medical notes and records and related miscellany of William H. Leonard and his son William E., both Minneapolis physicians; William H.'s attendance cards from medical institutions, appointments, and certificates; an obstetrical record (1855-1903); family genealogical data, memorabilia, and a few letters; Civil War reports of sick and wounded, 8th Wisconsin Regiment (1865); and meteorological records for Minnesota and Massachusetts.

ArchivalResource: 0.5 cu. ft. (1 box, incl. 7 v.; 15 oversize items)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/86134020 View

Kramer, Daryl J. Sidlaw Farm paper / by Daryl J. Kramer.

Title: Sidlaw Farm paper / by Daryl J. Kramer. 1965.

This collection consists of a paper written by Daryl J. Kramer about the Sidlaw farm in Cedar Township of Martin County, Minnesota. The paper describes the history of the farm, once owned by William R. Merriam, former governor of Minnesota (1889 to 1893). Title struggles, local legends, and a list of the people who owned this particular farm are all part of the narrative. A map of the area and photographs of the farmhouse are also part of the text. The paper was written in 1965, as an assignment for Dr. Bert Burns' Historical Geography class at Mankato State College.

ArchivalResource: 1 folder.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/48656707 View

St. Paul Boom Company (Saint Paul, Minn.). St. Paul Boom Company records, 1881-1919.

Title: St. Paul Boom Company records, 1881-1919.

Minute book including articles of incorporation (1881-1916), ledger (1905-1919), journal (1913-1919), logbook (1888-1914), cashbook (1908-1915), and stock certificate book (1882-1906) of a firm organized to build and operate a boom on the Mississippi River below the Falls of St. Anthony in Minneapolis. This company was a Weyerhaeuser affiliate.

ArchivalResource: 6 v.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/86147551 View

Minnesota. Board of World's Fair Managers. World's Columbian Exposition records, 1884-1885, 1891-1894.

Title: World's Columbian Exposition records, 1884-1885, 1891-1894.

Records documenting the board's fundraising for and construction and management of the Minnesota Building and exhibits at the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago. The correspondence, much of which is addressed to board secretary Charles McCormick Reeve or superintendent L.P. Hunt, is divided into four sections: Chicago office, exhibitors, board, and miscellaneous. The Chicago office letters are mainly from fair officials including general instructions sent to all states but also regarding specifics related to the Minnesota exhibits. The exhibitors correspondence documents the planning for and erection of the exhibits, particularly those relating to flour milling, forestry, and education. The board correspondence includes letters from Governors Merriam and Nelson; board members Montfort, LaDue, Furlong, Lamphere, and Ward; superintendent Hunt; Women's Auxiliary Board head Mrs. L.P. Hunt; state geologist N.H. Winchell, and Conde Hamlin, St. Paul Pioneer Press. The miscellaneous correspondence, kept by Reeve, deals with a wide variety of topics involving the board's management and activities. The subject files also cover a wide variety of topics related to the board's work and include bids for the building, a May 1893 commissioner's report, employment correspondence, petitions on closing the building on Sundays, financial statements, special subscription fund statements, and Women's Auxiliary Board records. There are also correspondence and reports kept by superintendent Hunt, visitors registers of Minnesota residents who visited and toured the building, and award certificates presented for the education, fish, and forestry exhibits.

ArchivalResource: 3.5 cu. ft. (3 boxes, 1 oversize folder)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/313787865 View

Minnesota. Governor (1876-1882 : Pillsbury). Records of Governor John S. Pillsbury, 1875-1891 (bulk 1876-1882).

Title: Records of Governor John S. Pillsbury, 1875-1891 (bulk 1876-1882).

Assorted files on public policy matters, including materials relating to public lands, railroads, grasshopper relief, seed grain, pardons, and applications for and appointments to office.

ArchivalResource: 9.0 cu. ft. (8 boxes and 2 partial boxes).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/313805614 View

Baxter, Luther Loren, 1838-1915. Luther L. Baxter and family papers, 1853-1950.

Title: Luther L. Baxter and family papers, 1853-1950.

The papers of Baxter, lawyer, judge, and legislator from Scott and Carver counties (Minnesota), include correspondence with several prominent Minnesotans regarding local Democratic politics, as well as records (1861-1865) he kept as an officer in the Fourth Minnesota Infantry and the First Regiment of Heavy Artillery during the Civil War.

ArchivalResource: 1.0 cu. ft. (2 boxes, including 1 v.)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122523097 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

Michelet, Simon Thenistrup, 1871-1956. Simon T. Michelet and family papers, 1879, 1908-1943.

Title: Simon T. Michelet and family papers, 1879, 1908-1943.

Correspondence, clippings, articles, and printed data (largely 1920s) reflecting the activities of Michelet, a Minneapolis attorney and secretary (1918-1923) to Minnesota Republican senator Knute Nelson.

ArchivalResource: 1.25 cu. ft. (3 boxes)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122412013 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

Bird, Lenore E. Lenore E. Bird U.S. Census Office appointment certificates, 1900.

Title: Lenore E. Bird U.S. Census Office appointment certificates, 1900.

The certificates are signed by William Rush Merriam, director of the federal census for 1900.

ArchivalResource: 2 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/709560981 View

Records of Governor William R. Merriam, 1888-1901 (bulk 1888-1893).

Title: Records of Governor William R. Merriam, 1888-1901 (bulk 1888-1893).

Assorted files on public policy matters, including materials relating to grasshopper relief, applications for and appointments to office, and grain inspection. Some materials date from the administrations of Knute Nelson, David M. Clough, and John Lind.

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Minnesota. Governor (1882-1887 : Hubbard). Records of Governor Lucius F. Hubbard, 1882-1891 (bulk 1882-1887).

Title: Records of Governor Lucius F. Hubbard, 1882-1891 (bulk 1882-1887).

Assorted files on public policy matters, including materials relating to State Capitol construction, public lands, pardons, applications for and appointments to office, Ojibway Indian affairs, World's Industrial and Cotton Centennial Exposition in New Orleans, and tornadoes ("cyclones") in the St. Cloud and Sauk Rapids vicinity (1886).

ArchivalResource: 9.0 cu. ft. (8 boxes and 2 partial boxes).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/313807738 View

A. R. McGill and family papers., 1794-1931 (bulk 1870-1900).

Title: A. R. McGill and familypapers. 1794-1931 (bulk 1870-1900).

Papers of A. R. McGill, a Nicollet County and St. Paul,Minnesota lawyer (1861-1869); private secretary to Governor Horace Austin(1870-1874); Minnesota insurance commissioner (1873-1887); governor (1887-1889);state senator (1899-1905); and St. Paul postmaster (1900-1905).

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Abbott, William L. William L. Abbott correspondence, 1872-1889.

Title: William L. Abbott correspondence, 1872-1889.

Letters to and from Abbott, a St. Paul (Minn.) journalist, on assorted personal matters.

ArchivalResource: 7 items in folder.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/86147649 View

Records of Governor John S. Pillsbury, 1875-1891 (bulk 1876-1882).

Title: Records of Governor John S. Pillsbury, 1875-1891 (bulk1876-1882).

Assorted files on public policy matters, including materialsrelating to public lands, railroads, grasshopper relief, seed grain, pardons, andapplications for and appointments to office.

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http://www.mnhs.org/library/findaids/gr00626.xml View

Papers, 1848-1929.

Title: Papers, 1848-1929.

Miscellaneous papers of William P. Merriam, Philetus D. Merriam, and other members of this Westport, N.Y. family including accounts, memoranda, deeds, lot surveys, bonds, receipts, agreements, contracts, business letters, and the will of William P. Merriam, 1883.

ArchivalResource: ca. .3 cubic ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/155468263 View

Gunnarson, G. A., 1849-1918. G. A. Gunnarson papers, 1888-1902.

Title: G. A. Gunnarson papers, 1888-1902.

Letters received by Gunnarson as Kittson County (Minn.) auditor, dealing with the business of that office, and with Minnesota politics. Included are three letters from state auditors and one from the Tax Commission of Minnesota, and one letter written by William R. Merriam just after his election as governor of Minnesota.

ArchivalResource: 9 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122588223 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

Wilder, Amherst H. (Amherst Holcomb), 1828-1894. Amherst H. Wilder and family papers, 1866-1937.

Title: Amherst H. Wilder and family papers, 1866-1937.

Correspondence, legal papers, financial records, and related materials, primarily 1900-1930, of Wilder, a St. Paul (Minn.) businessman and philanthropist, of his wife, Fanny Spencer Wilder, and of his daughter, Cornelia Day Wilder (Mrs. T. E. W. Villiers Appleby).

ArchivalResource: 15.0 cu. ft. (8 boxes, 108 volumes shelved loose, and 1 oversize folder).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/313834479 View

World's Columbian Exposition records., 1884-1885, 1891-1894.

Title: World's Columbian Exposition records. 1884-1885, 1891-1894.

Records documenting the board's fundraising for and construction and management of the Minnesota Building and exhibits at the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago.

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http://www.mnhs.org/library/findaids/gr00036.xml View

Larson, Louis E. Louis E. Larson and family papers, 1857-1916.

Title: Louis E. Larson and family papers, 1857-1916.

Correspondence and printed materials collected by Louis E. Larson and family of Winona, Minnesota. The correspondence primarily relates to Minnesota and national politics, particularly election campaigns, political appointments, and the Republican Party. Other topics discussed are the Civil War, the Spanish American War, the movement for African American suffrage (1869), and an epidemic in Chicago (1866). Correspondents include such Minnesota and national political figures as: Tams Bixby, Alexander Bull, Joseph Gurney Cannon, Cushman Kellogg Davis, William Watts Folwell, John Hay, Andrew Ryan McGill, William Rainey Marshall, William Rush Merriam, Stephen Miller, Knute Nelson, John Sargent Pillsbury, Alexander Ramsey, Theodore Roosevelt, James Albertus Tawney, Samuel Rinnah Van Sant, Gideon Welles, and William Windom. The printed items include theater programs, invitations, price lists, and similar materials. Included are programs of the Winona Opera House, a program of the Winona Fair and State Exposition (1890), a Ringling Brothers circus program (1916), and a circus poster.

ArchivalResource: 0.25 cu. ft. (1 box and 1 oversize item)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/313857069 View

Johnson, Gates A., 1826-1918. Gates A. Johnson and family papers, 1855-1908.

Title: Gates A. Johnson and family papers, 1855-1908.

Papers of a St. Paul (Minn.) civil engineer and surveyor, two of his sons, and of Samuel G. Kent, another surveyor with the St. Paul city engineer's office. The material is principally concerned with the Johnsons' survey work for Ramsey County, for St. Paul real estate promoters and developers, and for several railroad companies. The collection includes personal diaries, surveyor's notebooks, miscellaneous account books, maps of St. Paul subdivisions, and a map showing a portion of a railroad line proposed for southern Minnesota. Most of the surveying projects involved tracts of land in St. Paul and in four then-rural townships in Ramsey County (Minn.). There is information about the construction of railway lines (1870), about a survey (1866) for a line to run from Big Stone Lake to Hastings (Minn.), and about an elevated railroad to run between St. Paul and Minneapolis (ca. 1884).

ArchivalResource: 0.75 cu. ft. (2 boxes).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122509310 View

Devine, Edward C. Edward C. Devine papers, 1886-1897.

Title: Edward C. Devine papers, 1886-1897.

Correspondence, legal papers, and miscellany of Devine, proprietor (1890s) of the Union Printing Company, St. Paul. The majority of the papers document Minnesota governor William R. Merriam's commutation of Devine's 1891 libel conviction and Devine's mortgage of the Union Printing Company to P. B. Byrne of Eau Claire, Wisconsin (1894-1895).

ArchivalResource: 43 items in folder.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122507983 View

Edmondson, George M. Letter, 1940 Jan. 25.

Title: Letter, 1940 Jan. 25.

Letter from George M. Edmondson, photographic specialist in Cleveland, Ohio to Alva [Townsend of Lincoln, Neb.] describes a photograph of a dinner party at the home of Marcus A. Hanna in Cleveland, Ohio during William McKinley's tenure as governor, 1892-1896. Photographed diners include Marcus A. Hanna; Mrs. Alger; R.A. Alger, former governor of Michigan; William R. Merriam, former governor of Minnesota; Ida Saxton McKinley; William McKinley; two McKinley neices; Mrs. Hanna; her secretary, Miss Phelps; and the butler.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (2 p.)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/42388028 View

McGill, A. R. (Andrew Ryan), 1840-1905. A.R. McGill and family papers, 1794-1931 (bulk 1870-1900).

Title: A.R. McGill and family papers, 1794-1931 (bulk 1870-1900).

Papers of Andrew Ryan McGill, a Nicollet County and St. Paul, Minnesota, lawyer (1861-1869); private secretary to Governor Horace Austin (1870-1874); Minnesota insurance commissioner (1873-1887); governor (1887-1889); state senator (1899-1905); and St. Paul postmaster (1900-1905).

ArchivalResource: 4.0 cubic feet (9 boxes, 1 oversize folder, and 5 items in reserve).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/313838760 View