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Medary, S. (Samuel), 1801-1864. Letter : to Judge Halderman / by Governor Samuel Medary, 1859 Dec 6.

Title: Letter : to Judge Halderman / by Governor Samuel Medary, 1859 Dec 6.

Speculates on the results of the day's election and other political matters.

ArchivalResource: 2 p. ; 23 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/702127463 View

Brown, Orville Chester, 1811-1904. Orville Chester Brown papers [microform], 1834-1904.

Title: Orville Chester Brown papers [microform], 1834-1904.

Correspondence, autobiography, and historical narratives pertaining to the slavery dispute in Kansas, 1854-61; town building in the Territory; national politics; the Civil War & his sons' service in it; efforts to secure his son's release following the latter's imprisonment as a Union spy; the effect of his son's execution; and his reminiscences about early Kansas, 1854-61. Correspondents include his wife, Mary Ann Cozzens Brown; Kansas U.S. Senator Samuel C. Pomeroy; Kansas Territorial Governors Wilson Shannon & Samuel Medary; Franklin G. Adams, secretary of the Kansas State Historical Society (Topeka); and his son, Spencer Kellogg Brown. Several documents written & annotated by and concerning Orville Chester Brown in other ms. collections and state archives records are included on this microfilm.

ArchivalResource: Originals: 290 items.Reproductions: 2 microfilm reels ; 35 mm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/49359613 View

Dunn, Andrew Clarkson, 1834-. Leaves from the tablets of my memory concerning early days of Minnesota, 1916 / by Andrew C. Dunn of Winnebago.

Title: Leaves from the tablets of my memory concerning early days of Minnesota, 1916 / by Andrew C. Dunn of Winnebago.

Reminiscences (47 p.) of a Minnesota pioneer lawyer, politician and town builder giving details on his trip from New York to St. Paul; a description of St. Paul's Lowertown area; a trip to Sauk Rapids; a visit to St. Anthony and Minneapolis; a gathering of Winnebago Indians at Watab, Minnesota, for their annuity payments; the platting of St. Cloud; the national elections of 1848 and 1852, dealing with the slavery issue; his reminiscences of the territorial governors, Alexander Ramsey, Willis A. Gorman, and Samuel Medary; and ont eh 1857 constitutional convention and Minnesota's admission to the Union.

ArchivalResource: 1 folder, containing 2 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122580902 View

William Medill Papers, 1834-1864

Title: William Medill Papers 1834-1864

Lawyer, United States representative and governor of Ohio, and United States government official. Correspondence, account books, and miscellaneous material primarily relating to Medill’s service as assistant postmaster general (1845), commissioner of Indian affairs (1845-1850), and first comptroller of the United States treasury (1857-1861).

ArchivalResource: 2,300 items; 6 containers; 2.4 linear feet; 1 microfilm reel

http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms009238 View

Selected records of the Office of the Secretary of the Interior relating to wagon roads [microform]., 1857-1868.

Title: Selected records of the Office of the Secretary of the Interior relating to wagon roads [microform]. 1857-1868.

Microfilm copies of selected correspondence, reports, and other papers relating to the construction of wagon roads from Fort Ridgely to the South Pass, and the Niobara-Virginia City wagon road. A branch of the latter was surveyed from the Minnesota border to the Cheyenne River.

ArchivalResource:

http://www.mnhs.org/library/findaids/m0090.xml View

McLean, Washington, 1816-1890. Papers, 1853 May 15.

Title: Papers, 1853 May 15.

Letter, May 15, 1853, from Washington McLean, Cincinnati, O., introducing P.J. Sullivan. Endorsed by Samuel Medary.

ArchivalResource: 1 item, 1 p.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/6361272 View

Baasen, Francis, 1820-1901. Francis Baasen and family papers, 1840-1958.

Title: Francis Baasen and family papers, 1840-1958.

Personal memorabilia and clippings of Baasen, Minnesota's first secretary of state and a Brown County official, and his family.

ArchivalResource: 24 items (3 in oversize).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122567962 View

Correspondence and documents, 1854-1894

Title: Correspondence and documents 1854-1894

Halderman was private secretary to A. H. Reeder, 1st governor of Kansas Territory. The letters deal with early Kansas Territory and State politics and government, land values and taxes, and some personal affairs.

ArchivalResource: 61 items.

http://hdl.handle.net/10407/0682593865 View

Benjamin Tappan Papers, 1795-1900, (bulk 1795-1866)

Title: Benjamin Tappan Papers 1795-1900 (bulk 1795-1866)

Jurist and United States senator. Correspondence, speeches, legal and business records, and genealogical material relating to Ohio and national politics, antislavery movement, family matters, and Tappan's interests in mineralogy and conchology.

ArchivalResource: 3,650 items; 25 containers; 6 linear feet; 11 microfilm reels

http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms010080 View

Medary, S. (Samuel), 1801-1864. Papers 1842-1876.

Title: Papers 1842-1876.

Ohio editor and politician and Governor of Minnesota Territory (1857-58) and Kansas Territory (1858-60). Correspondence of Medary relating to Ohio politics and establishment of the boundary between Kansas and Nebraska; together with correspondence of his son Charles Medary, Union artillery officer, relating chiefly to the Civil War.

ArchivalResource: 0.25 cubic foot.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/5704053 View

Buchanan, James, 1791-1868. Autograph letter signed : Washington, to S. Medary, 1859 Aug. 25.

Title: Autograph letter signed : Washington, to S. Medary, 1859 Aug. 25.

Concerning slavery in Kansas.

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

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/270530874 View

Wood, Reuben, 1793-1864. Papers 1850-1853.

Title: Papers 1850-1853.

Governor of Ohio. Official correspondence, resolutions, and reports, relating to the Peyton Polly kidnapping case, and letters of recommendation, petitons, for pardon and patronage, and other papers relating to Wood's governorship. Contact repository for more information.

ArchivalResource: 1 cubic foot.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/5980934 View

Medary, S. (Samuel), 1801-1864. Samuel Medary papers, 1848-1932.

Title: Samuel Medary papers, 1848-1932.

Letters to and biographical materials about Medary, territorial governor of Minnesota (1857-1858) and Kansas (1859-1860) and later publisher of a Columbus, Ohio, newspaper. The letters (1848-1860), from Martin Van Buren, Lewis Cass, Edwin M. Stanton, James W. Buchanan, and Milton S. Latham, discuss Democratic politics, Indian affairs in Kansas, and efforts to achieve statehood for Kansas.

ArchivalResource: 13 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122564459 View

Miscellaneous Correspondence, 1839-1954

Title: Miscellaneous Correspondence 1839-1954

The collection includes miscellaneous correspondence, clippings, etc. of Kansas governors, collected over the years from various individuals.

ArchivalResource: 5 folders

http://hdl.handle.net/10407/9146757729 View

Tappan, Benjamin, 1773-1857. Benjamin Tappan papers, 1795-1900 (inclusive), [microform].

Title: Benjamin Tappan papers, 1795-1900 (inclusive), [microform].

The papers of Benjamin Tappan, lawyer, judge, U.S. Senator from Ohio, and active participant in the antislavery movement, consist of correspondence, speeches, legal and business papers, and miscellaneous material. The correspondence, which constitutes the bulk of the papers, relates to Tappan's law practice, his activities in the antislavery movement, and to Ohio and national politics especially during the Jacksonian period. Tappan's interest in conchology and mineralogy is also well documented.

ArchivalResource: 11 reels.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122501367 View

James William Denver papers and diary, 1839-1912; 1850

Title: James William Denver papers and diary 1839-1912; 1850

Papers of James William Denver from 1839-1912. Includes a diary dated May 20, 1850-September 5, 1850, with miscellaneous notes.

ArchivalResource: 364 items; 1 volume, 63p. (16cm)

http://hdl.handle.net/10407/7167235532 View

Free Library of Philadelphia Collection of Literary Manuscripts, 1666-1990

Title: Free Library of Philadelphia Collection of Literary Manuscripts 1666-1990

This collection contains letters, manuscript fragments, autographs, and other documents by famous authors. The material dates from 1666 to 1990. The bulk of the collection consists of letters written by the authors to various friends with some letters to editors or critics. There is an even mix of American and European authors present.

ArchivalResource: 23 Linear feet

http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/pacscl/FLP_FLPRBDLITERARY View