Compare Constellations

Vanderpoel, Aaron J., 1825-1887. Papers, 1837-1885.

Title: Papers, 1837-1885.

The incoming correspondence of Vanderpoel, containing letters from friends, clients, and colleagues and dealing with personal and legal matters. Correspondents include Henry M. Alexander, William Allen Butler, John P. and William V.S. Beekman, G.W. Bulkey, Joseph H. Choate, Frederic R. Coudert, Lewis L. Delafield, Jay Gould, William D.F. Maurice, Edward Pierpont, J. Bryce Smith, John Van Alen, John and Thomas Van Buren, and Henry Vanorden. Letters of a personal and business nature from various family members include several from Aaron and John Vanderpoel and Lewis Oakley, his uncles, and from Henry C. Van Schaack, his father-in-law. There are approximately twelve manuscripts of essays and speeches by A.J. Vanderpoel while he attended Kinderhook Academy and New York University, as well as a few by other family members. Various documents including mortgages, deeds, indentures, agreements, and court records relate to Vanderpoel's law practice and to family property.

ArchivalResource: ca. 300 items (1 box)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122515164 View

Aaron J. Vanderpoel Papers, 1837-1885.

Title: Aaron J. Vanderpoel Papers, 1837-1885.

ArchivalResource: ca. 300 items (1 box)

http://findingaids.cul.columbia.edu/ead/nnc-rb/ldpd_4079433 View

Sherman, Isaac, 1818-1881. Papers of Isaac Sherman, 1832-1913 (bulk 1848-1881).

Title: Papers of Isaac Sherman, 1832-1913 (bulk 1848-1881).

Personal papers of Isaac Sherman, including his correspondence, legal, financial, and political papers. The correspondence, chiefly letters received, discusses political campaigns, state and national politics, business, and family affairs. Included are items discussing the 1848 presidential campaign; congressional elections in New York; Free Soil Party; Wilmot proviso, Kansas-Nebraska bill; Republican National Convention (1856); Fremont's run for President, including the publicity campaign; Kansas controversy; Catholic question, especially in connection with Fremont's candidacy; Know-Nothings; Abraham Lincoln; the Civil War (especially operations in Missouri and military leadership of Fremont and Nathaniel Prentiss Banks, war politics and finances, New York regiments, and European opinions); Johnson's presidency and Reconstruction; national economic policies; tax policies and Anti-Income Tax Association; railroads, especially in the South, etc. The collection also contains financial records Cornelia Sherman Martin and her husband Bradley Martin (1841-1913), including records pertaining to expenses of their New York City mansion.

ArchivalResource: Appprox. 5000 pieces.24 boxes.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/228738324 View