Papers, 1868-1919.

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Papers, 1868-1919.

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Fragmentary papers of a U.S. Senator and Madison, Wis., attorney, consisting of personal and political correspondence including letters from Elisha Keyes, Philip Spooner, Theodore Roosevelt, and Benjamin Harrison; letters and a poem by William C. Kirk on Robert La Follette and Wisconsin politics; microfilmed letters, 1872-1874, concerning a land-grant dispute involving the West Wisconsin Railway Company and the Milwaukee and St. Paul Railway; two speeches by Spooner; and a program from an 1891 dinner given in his honor in Washington, D.C.

0.1 c.f. (1 folder) and.1 reel of microfilm (35mm)

Wisconsin Historical Society, Newspaper Project

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SNAC Resource ID: 6715420

Wisconsin Historical Society, Newspaper Project

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