W. Atlee Burpee Jr. collection of Lincoln papers 1861-1865

Kellogg, Francis William, 1810-1879

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New England Soldiers’ Relief Association.

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Henderson, John B. (John Brooks), 1826-1913

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United States senator and U.S. Army general. From the description of John B. and Mary Foote Henderson collection, [ca. 1876]-1923. (Historical Society of Washington, Dc). WorldCat record id: 70966780 American political leader. From the description of Autograph letter signed : St. Louis, Mo., to Charles Devens, 1880 Jan. 30. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270472649 From the description of Autograph letter signed : St. Louis, Mo., to President Hayes, 1877 ...

Clarke, Sidney, 1831-1909

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Smith, Truman, 1791-1884

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Whig representative from Connecticut. From the description of Letter, 1849. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 145409160 A lawyer, U. S. Representative (1839-1843, 1845-1849), and Senator (1849-1854) from Connecticut, and later judge of the court of arbitration (1862-1870), who was one of the earliest Whig supporters of Zachary Taylor and managed his campaign for president. From the description of Newspaper prospectus, July 7, 1849. (Abraham Lincoln Presidential Libr...

Stanton, Edwin McMasters, 1814-1869

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American jurist and politician. From the description of Letter signed : "War Department," to William Pitt Fessenden, 1862 May 19. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270580939 U.S. secretary of war 1862-1868. From the description of Telegram (draft) : ms. : Washington, D.C., to Ulysses S. Grant, Appomattox C.H., Va., 1865 Apr. 9. (Rosenbach Museum & Library). WorldCat record id: 122380613 Secretary of War; Associate Justice of the Supreme Court. ...

Nixon, John T. (John Thompson), 1820-1889

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Burpee, W. Atlee (Washington Atlee), Jr., 1894-1966.

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Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865) served as the 16th President of the United States from March 1861 until he was assassinated in April 1865. He led the United States through the American Civil War, preserving the Union and ending slavery. During his life he served as a country lawyer, an Illinois state legislator, and a one-term member of the United States House of Representatives. He secured the Republican nomination and was elected president in 1860. As president he issued the Emancipation Proclamat...

Curtin, Andrew Gregg, 1817-1894.

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Governor of Pennsylvania. From the description of Autograph letter signed : Philadelphia, to Attorney General Hoar, 1869 May 22. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270527031 Andrew Gregg Curtin was the Secretary of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, and Governor of Pennsylvania during the Civil War. From the description of A.G. Curtin letter to James T. Hale, 1855 March 29. (Pennsylvania State University Libraries). WorldCat record id: 49839092 ...

Yates, Richard, 1815-1873

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American lawyer and politician. From the description of Letter signed, with a line in his autograph : Springfield, Illinois, to President Lincoln, 1863 Feb. 25. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270584462 Illinois governor, 1861-1865; member, Illinois House of Representatives, 1842-1846, 1849-1850; U.S. senator, 1865-1871. From the description of Letter : General Head Quarters, Springfield, State of Illinois, to John S. Bradford, 1861 April 17. (Abraham Lincoln Pres...

Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865

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Abraham Lincoln (born February 12, 1809, Sinking Spring Farm near Hodgenville, Kentucky-died April 15, 1865, Washington, D.C.) was the sixteenth President of the United States from 1861 until his death by assassination. He was the son of a Kentucky frontiersman, Thomas Lincoln, and Nancy Hanks. In 1816, Lincoln moved to Pigeon Creek, Indiana, where he worked on his family's farm. Following his mother's death two years later, he continued working on farms until moving with his father to New Sa...

Arnold, Isaac Newton, 1815-1884

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American lawyer and politician. From the description of Autograph letter signed : Chicago, to the President, 1882 Nov. 14. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270131510 From the description of The history of Abraham Lincoln, and the overthrow of slavery : autograph manuscript unsigned of portions of pages 419-420 of his book, 1866. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270132584 Cook County lawyer; Illinois House of Representatives, 1842-1846, 1857-1858; U.S. House of Represent...

Collamer, Jacob, 1791-1865

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Goodwin, John Noble, 1824-1887

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First Territorial governor of Arizona, attorney, U.S. House of Representatives congressman from Maine; named by Lincoln as first governor of Arizona territory. Goodwin called the first meeting of the Arizona legislature to convene at Prescott in the fall of 1864. He was elected delegate to Congress in 1865 and retired in 1867. He died in California in 1887. From the description of Proclamations, 1863-1865. (Arizona Historical Society, Southern Arizona Division). WorldCat record id: 3...

Bingham, John Armor, 1815-1900

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Born in Mercer County, Pennsylvania, where his carpenter and bricklayer father, Hugh, had moved after service in the War of 1812, Bingham attended local public schools. After his mother's death in 1827, his father remarried. John moved west to Ohio to live with his merchant uncle, Thomas, after clashing with his new stepmother. The teenager apprenticed as a printer for two years, helping to publish the Luminary, an anti-Masonic newspaper. He then returned to Pennsylvania to study at Mercer Colle...

Noble, Warren Perry, 1820-1903

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Warren Perry Noble was a U.S. Representative from Ohio. He was admitted to the bar in 1843 and established a legal practice in Tiffin, Ohio. From the guide to the Warren Perry Noble letter to Judge Alexander Sankey Latty, July 20, 1866, (Ohio University) Lawyer and U.S. Congressman, 1861-1865. From the description of ALS, 1866. (Ohio University). WorldCat record id: 12738863 Lawyer of Tiffin, Ohio, and U.S. congressman. From the description o...