Administrative correspondence, 1881-1897.

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Administrative correspondence, 1881-1897.

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Administrative correspondence documents the administration of a department or division, and tends to deal with matters that have an impact on the program areas that the department or division is mandated to carry out. This series consists of the administrative correspondence of the Board of Inspectors of Convicts and its predecessor agency, the Board of Inspectors of the Penitentiary, between 1881 and 1897. The bulk of the series covers the years from 1883 to 1897 when Reginald Heber Dawson served as president of the board. The series consists of eighteen volumes: five letterbooks containing letters to the board and thirteen letterpress copybooks containing letters from the board. Most volumes are individually indexed. The letterbooks containing incoming letters are extremely fragile. The majority of the series consists of reports to Dawson from Inspectors W. D. Lee and A. T. Henley concerning their inspections of conditions of prisons, mines and farms where prisoners were leased; classification and medical reports from prison physicians Shirley Bragg and Russell M. Cunningham; and reports from prison chaplain Evan Nicholson. A significant amount of correspondence deals with personal and political matters of concern to Dawson, particularly the gubernatorial aspirations of himself and his brother, N. H. R. Dawson. Other correspondents include: Ala. Governors Rufus Wills Cobb, Edward Asbury O'Neal, Thomas Seay and Thomas Goode Jones; State Democratic Executive Committee members Henry Clay Tompkins, Edmund W. Pettus and Tennent Lomax; Ala. Penitentiary Warden and later U. S. Representative John H. Bankhead, and prison reformer Julia Strudwick Tutwiler.

3.5 cubic ft. (18 volumes contained in 1 oversized box, 2 records center cartons, and 2 microfilm cases).

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Dawson, Nathaniel Henry Rhodes, 1829-1895.

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Nathaniel Henry Rhodes Dawson was a Selma, Ala., lawyer and politician, Confederate officer, and United States commissioner of education. From the description of Nathaniel Henry Rhodes Dawson papers, 1851-1917 [manuscript]. WorldCat record id: 23150560 From the guide to the Nathaniel Henry Rhodes Dawson Papers, 1851-1917, (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection.) ...

Alabama. Board of Inspectors of Convicts.

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Dawson, Reginald Heber, 1838-1906.

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Ala. lawyer and prison inspector. Dawson was born in S.C., attended the University of Alabama and began practicing law in Camden, Wilcox Co., Ala. after 1860. He served in the Confederate States Army, reaching the rank of lieutenant colonel of the 13th Alabama Infantry Regiment. In 1883 he was appointed president of the Board of Inspectors of Convicts for Ala., a position he held until 1897. From the description of Diaries, 1883-1897. (Unknown). WorldCat reco...

Cobb, Rufus Wills, 1829-1913.

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Henley, A. T. b.1848.

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Tutwiler, Julia, 1841-1916

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Pettus, Edmund W. 1821-1907.

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Bragg, Shirley, 1853-1908.

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Alabama. Governor (1882-1886 : E. A. O'Neal).

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Cunningham, Russell M. 1855-1921.

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Tompkins, Henry Clay, 1845-1898.

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Alabama. Board of Inspectors of the Penitentiary.

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Seay, Thomas, 1846-1896.

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O'Neal, Edward Asbury, 1818-1890

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Lawyer, Confederate Army officer, and governor of Alabama from 1882 to 1886. From the description of Edward Asbury O'Neal papers, 1833-1908 [manuscript]. WorldCat record id: 25031595 Edward Asbury O'Neal (1818-1890) was a lawyer, local secession leader, Confederate Army officer serving in Alabama, Virginia, Pennsylvania, and Georgia, a member of the Constitutional Convention of 1875, and governor of Alabama from 1882 to 1886. From the guide to the Edward Asbury O...

Alabama. Governor (1886-1890 : Seay).

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Lomax, Tennent, 1858-1902.

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Alabama. Governor (1890-1894 : Jones)

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Bankhead, John Hollis, 1842-1920

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Incorporated in Maine in 1907, the Telepost Company was an independent telegraph company using the rapid system of telegraphy invented by Patrick B. Delaney. The company operated between Chicago, St. Louis, Indianapolis, Louisville and other cities in the west. Rates were a quarter for 25 words and a nickel for each additional 10 words when the message was delivered by messenger; and 50 words for a quarter when the message was sent by wire and delivered to the post office in a sealed envelop. Th...

Lee, W. D. b.1833.

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Nicholson, Evan, 1832-1897.

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Jones, Thomas Goode, 1844-1914

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Thomas Goode Jones was born on 1844 Nov. 26 at Macon, Ga. He was educated by tutors, Mongomery, Ala. schools, the schools of Dr. Charles Minor and Gesner Harrison in Virginia, and the Virginia Military Institute. Within months of joining the Confederate Army he rose to the rank of major. Following the war, he served as captain of the Montgomery Greys, Co. A., Second Regiment, Ala. State Troops, and colonel of the Second Infantry Regiment, Alabama State Troops, from 1880 to 1890. Between 1866 and...

Alabama. Governor (1878-1882 : Cobb).

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