Letterpress copybook, 1896-1897.

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Letterpress copybook, 1896-1897.

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Letterpress copybook, 1896 Feb. 13-1897 Mar. 30, indexed, of outgoing correspondence of the Jones' law firm regarding business ventures such as the possible quarrying of rock to make cement, legal matters, financial matters, and comments on constitutional questions such as the regulation of the insurance business found in the letter of 1897 Feb. 25, of ? Jones to E.B Joseph, president of the Capital City Fire Insurance Company. There is also letter, of 1896 Aug. 14 commenting on the 1896 presidential election, from Thomas G. Jones to C.S. Fairchild, New York Security and Trust, New York, in which Jones asserts the election of William Jennings Bryan would be a "calamity", but "can not" vote for William McKinley; he desires a third party. Jones also spoke of the 1896 Alabama gubernatorial election in Alabama and the defeat of the Republicans and Populists by the Democrats using "the Negro Question".

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Alabama Department of Archives and History

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Alabama Department of Archives and History

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Bryan, William Jennings, 1860-1925

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Mckinley, William, 1843-1901

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Capital City Fire Insurance Company.

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Jones, Thomas G. and Charles P., Law Firm (1881-1901).

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The Thomas G. and Charles P. Jones Law Firm operated in Montgomery, Montgomery Co., Ala. from 1881 until 1901. Charles Pollard Jones was born on 1858 June 13 at Montgomery, Montgomery Co., Ala. to Samuel Goode and Martha Ward (Goode) Jones. He graduated from the agricultural and mechanical college at Auburn and the University of the South at Sewanee, Tenn., then studied law at the office of Jones and Faulkner at Montgomery, and was admitted to the bar in 1881. He was a m...