Burrows family papers 1760-1916

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Burrows family papers 1760-1916

Burrows-Avery-Smith families of New York, Connecticut, and Michigan. Correspondence and business papers of Lorenzo Burrows, New York Congressman, 1849-1853; George L. Burrows, Saginaw, Michigan, banker and speculator; material concerning the Whig Party and New York state politics, 1848-1860. Correspondents include: Millard Fillmore, Washington Hunt, and John Young.

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Young, John, 1802-1852

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Burrows, Lorenzo, 1805-1885

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United States. Congress

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Bills of the 96th Congress to provide for temporary increases in the public debt limit, and for other purposes. From the description of Public debt legislation, 96th Congress : legislative history of public debt legislation, 1979-1980. (Louisiana State University). WorldCat record id: 243776779 Bill of the 96th Congress to impose a windfall profit tax on domestic crude oil, and for other purposes. From the description of Crude oil windfall profit tax act of 1980 ...

Avery family.

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Equal Rights Party (N.Y.)

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Free Soil Party (U.S.)

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American Party

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One of the most famous incidents of anti-Catholic sentiment expression occurred August 11, 1834; non-Catholic rioters looted and burned the Ursuline Convent of Mount Benedict in Charlestown, MA. Anti-Catholic violence also erupted in Philadelphia when 13 people were killed in riots in 1835. Activities by the American Nativist Party in Kensington, Pennsylvania, in 1844 also sparked anti-Catholic riots. In the 1850s, the American Party, also known as the Know-Nothing Party, was partly founded on a...

Tilden, Samuel Jones, d. 1914.

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Fillmore, Millard, 1800-1874

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Millard Fillmore was born in Cayuga County, N.Y. and later became a resident of East Aurora and Buffalo. He was a lawyer, local office holder, State Assemblyman, U.S. Congressman, N.Y. State Comptroller, Vice-President under Zachary Taylor and 13th U.S. President, 1850-1853. He was also involved in establishing numerous Buffalo institutions. He was a founder and first Chancellor of the University of Buffalo, Commander of the Union Continentals (Home Guard) during Civil War, and first president o...

Hunt, Washington, 1811-1867

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Governor of New York; Congressman. From the description of Letter, 1862 October 28. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122578616 Governor, New York, Representative, U.S., New York, and Jurist. From the description of Letters of Washington Hunt, 1850-1858. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 79451086 Hunt was New York state comptroller, 1849-50. From the description of Letter : Albany, N.Y., to James R. Lawrence, 1849 Sept. 26. (University of Chicago L...

Burrows family

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The Burrows family was a prominent Connecticut, New York, and Michigan business family. The papers begin in the mid-eighteenth century with Latham Avery, a Connecticut businessman. His daughter Jerusha married Roswell Burrows, another prosperous businessman. Among their children were Lorenzo Burrows, Roswell Burrows Jr., and Latham Burrows. Lorenzo Burrows, who served in Congress, had three children: George L. Burrows, Emeline Burrows, and Lorenzo Burrows, Jr. Among the children of ...

Whig Party (U.S.)

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Democratic Party (U.S.)

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Burrows, George Lord, b. 1836.

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Democratic National Convention (1856 : Cincinnati, Ohio)

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Burrows, Emmeline.

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