Ellis Robb collection of Iowa autographs, 1893-1936.

Henderson, David Bremner, 1840-1906

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Born in Old Deer, Scotland on March 14, 1840, David Bremner Henderson emigrated to the United States with his parents, who settled in Winnebago County, Illinois, in 1846. They moved to Fayette County, Iowa. The family lived in what became known as Henderson Prairie a few miles west of Postville. In 1849 he attended the common schools and then Upper Iowa University at Fayette. Henderson was a leader in organizing a company of students at the beginning of the Civil War. They enlisted in the Uni...

Page, Carroll Smalley, 1843-1925

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Byers, S. H. M. (Samuel Hawkins Marshall), 1838-1933

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Samuel Hawkins Marshall Byers was born in Pennsylvania in 1838 and moved to Burlington, Iowa in 1851. Byers had studied law before enlisting as a First Corporal in Company B of the Fifth Iowa Infantry in 1861. By July 1862 he was promoted to Quartermaster Sergeant, he became the regimental adjutant in April 1863, and later that year he was taken prisoner at the Battle of Chattanooga with eighty other members of his regiment. Byers spent the next sixteen months in five different Confederate priso...

Teller, Henry Moore, 1830-1914

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U.S. Senator from Colorado from 1876-1909. From the description of Receipt, 1880. (Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library). WorldCat record id: 55768334 Lawyer of Central City, Colo., U.S. Senator from Colorado, and U.S. Secretary of the Interior. From the description of Papers, 1877-1900. (Denver Public Library). WorldCat record id: 13659484 American politician and Secretary of the Interior of the United States in the Chester A. Arthur administration. ...

Pickett, C.E.

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Sweet, Burton Erwin, 1867-1957

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Butcher, Fanny, 1888-1987

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Chicago literary critic and author. From the description of Fanny Butcher papers 1830-1984, bulk 1910-1984. (Newberry Library). WorldCat record id: 184986446 ...

Bleakley, John L.

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Young, Lafayette, 1848-1926.

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Republican senator, newspaper publisher and editor, war correspondent. Lafayette Young served in the Iowa Senate from 1874 to 1880, and from 1886 to 1888. He was appointed to fill a vacancy in the United States Senate and served from 1910 to 1911. He founded and published the Atlantic Telegraph newspaper (1871-1890). He established the Des Moines Capital newspaper and served as its editor from 1890 to 1926. Young was a war correspondent during the Spanish American War and World War I (1915). He ...

Steiner, Edward Alfred, 1866-1956

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Kern, Jonathan W.

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Harlan, Edgar Rubey, 1869-1941

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Lawyer, author and curator of the Iowa State Historical Department from 1908-1937. Harlan earned a law degree from Drake University (Des Moines) and was admitted to the bar in 1896. Prior to his appointment to the position of Historical Department curator he served as Van Buren County Attorney (1898-1902) and practiced with a firm in Keosauqua, Iowa (1902-1907). From the description of Edgar Rubey Harlan papers, 1887-1937. (State Historical Society of Iowa, Library). WorldCat record ...

Lowden, Frank O. (Frank Orren), 1861-1943

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Lawyer, politician, landowner. A.B., University of Iowa, 1885. LL. D., Union College of Law, 1887. Congressman from Illinois, 1906-1911. Governor of Illinois, 1916-1921. Advocate for scientific farming and farmers' interests. From the description of Papers, 1885-1943 (inclusive). (University of Chicago Library). WorldCat record id: 55818931 U. S. Congressman from Illinois (1906-1911) and Illinois governor (1917-1921). From the description of Letter, January 9, 19...

Cummins, Albert Baird, 1850-1926

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Albert Baird Cummins was a progressive Republican from Des Moines who served Iowa as state representative (1888-1890), governor (1902-1908) and United States senator (1908-1926). Prior to entering politics Cummins practiced law and gained national visibility for his successful representation of the Iowa Farmers' Protective Association in their case against the Washburn & Moen barbed wire trust. Between 1896 and 1900 he was an influential member of the Republican National Committee. During hi...

Hitt, Robert R. (Robert Roberts), 1834-1906

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Illinois stenographer for Lincoln-Douglas debates, diplomat, assistant secretary of state (1881-1882), and U. S. Congressman (1882-1906). From the description of Letter, ca. 1881-1882. (Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library). WorldCat record id: 748839838 U.S. representative from Illinois. From the description of Papers of Robert R. Hitt, 1830-1905. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 81736307 Biographical Note ...

Robb, Ellis D., 1869-1943

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Ellis D. Robb was born in Eldora, Iowa. In 1923 he moved to Atlanta, Ga. Mr. Robb worked as a National Bank Examiner, and collected information about famous people as part of collecting autographs. He put the information he collected into scrapbooks. From the description of Scrapbooks, 1920-1943. (Atlanta History Center). WorldCat record id: 35630995 Ellis Robb was an Iowan bank official who collected autographs. From the description of Ellis Robb collection of I...

Davis, Cushman Kellogg, 1838-1900

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Cushman Kellogg Davis, a Senator from Minnesota, was born in Henderson, Jefferson County, N.Y., on June 16, 1838. He moved with his parents to Waukesha, Wisconsin, where he attended the public schools, Carroll College in Waukesha, and graduated from the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor in 1857. He studied law and was admitted to the bar in 1859 and commenced practice in Waukesha. He moved to St. Paul, Minnesota in 1865 and became a member of the State house of representatives ine 1867, then s...

Hepburn, Mr. (William Peters), 1833-1916

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Van Wyck, Charles H. (Charles Henry), 1824-1895

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Lawyer from New York, serving in Congress at the time of this letter, then served in the Civil War and returned to Congress. Later moved to Nebraska. From the description of Letter, March 9, 1861. (Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library). WorldCat record id: 56089354 ...

Wallace, Joseph E.

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Lacey, John F. (John Fletcher), 1841-1913

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Lawyer, Civil War officer, U.S. congressman and conservationist. After serving with Iowa's 3rd Infantry (Company H) and 33rd Infantry (Companies C and D) during the Civil War, Lacey practiced law in Oskaloosa. He went on to serve in the Iowa General Assembly (1870-1872) and the United States Congress (1889-1891, 1893-1907). During his tenure as a United States congressman Lacey chaired the House Public Lands Committee and was responsible for authoring and sponsoring some of the country's earlies...

Adams, John T.

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Reynolds, Arthur Graham

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Hammill, John, 1875-1936

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Kenyon, William Squires, 1869-1933.

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Darling, Jay N. (Jay Norwood), 1876-1962

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Journalist and tireless advocate for preservation of the environment, Jay N. "Ding" Darling (1876-1962) spent the majority of his career working as an editorial cartoonist for the Des Moines Register. Twice awarded the Pulitzer Prize for syndicated editorial cartoons he drew almost daily between 1900 and 1949, in 1934-1935 he headed what is now the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, created the Federal Duck Stamp Program which has since restored thousands of acres of wet lands, and in 1936 founded ...

Allen, William V. (William Vincent), 1847-1924

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Haas, Martha ˜deœ

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Larrabee, William, 1832-1912

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Republican state senator (1867-1885), governor of Iowa (1886-1890), chairman of the Board of Control of State Institutions (1899-1900), and successful entrepreneur from Clermont, Iowa. Larrabee's business interests included mills, farms, banks and manufacturing. Political issues of particular interest to him included the regulation of railroad rates, prohibition of liquor sales and the placement of state institutions under the charge of boards of control. In 1861 he married Anna M. Appelman. The...

Aldrich, Charles, 1828-1908

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Charles Aldrich was a pioneer Iowa newspaperman (Hamilton Freeman, Dubuque Daily Times, Marshall Times), chief clerk of the Iowa House of Representatives (1860, 1862, 1866, 1870) , state legislator representing Hamilton County, Iowa (elected in 1881), first curator of the Iowa State Historical Dept. (1892-1908) and editor of the Annals of Iowa. From the description of Charles Aldrich letters to William Larrabee, 1892 August 8-1906 June 27 [microform]. (State Historical Society of Iow...

Shaw, Leslie M

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Norris, Charles A.

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Cummins, Amos

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Allison, William B. (William Boyd), 1829-1908

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Iowa legislator; United States House of Representatives, 1863-1871; United States Senate, 1873-1908. From the description of Letter : Dubuque, Iowa, to W[illiam] W[orth] Belknap, Washington, D.C., 1873 Oct. 22. (Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library). WorldCat record id: 26496685 U.S. Senator and Representative from Iowa. From the description of Papers of William B. Allison, 1862-1916. (University of Iowa Libraries). WorldCat record id: 148787411 William ...

Boies, Horace

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Train, George Francis, 1829-1904

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American entrepreneurial businessman, independent presidential candidate, and noted eccentric. From the description of George Francis Train letter to C.L. Greave[?] [manuscript], 1901[?] October 23. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 781412191 Born in Boston was a merchant, promoter, author, and eccentric. Ran for president in 1869, traveled around the world in eighty days in 1870 and was jailed on obscenity while defending Victoria Woodhull. From the ...

Herron, George Davis, 1862-1925

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Congregational minister, educator, journalist, and socialist. One of the prime movers in founding the Rand School of Social Science. From the description of Papers, 1905-1922. (New York University). WorldCat record id: 17268928 American clergyman and lecturer; unofficial adviser to President Woodrow Wilson. From the description of George Davis Herron papers, 1916-1927. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 754868095 One of the prime movers in the f...

Hill, James Jerome 1838-1916

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Railroad financier. From the description of Addresses, 1902-1916. (Washington State University). WorldCat record id: 29853289 Businessman and railroad executive, James J. Hill (1838-1916), was founder of the Great Northern Railway Company, which incorporated and extended an important transcontinental line, running from St. Paul, Minnesota to Seattle, Washington by 1893. Frequently called the "Empire Builder," Hill amassed a personal fortune through h...

Kendall, Nathan Edward, 1868-1936.

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23rd governor of Iowa (1921-1925). Kendall was admitted to the Iowa Bar in 1887 and established a legal practice in Albia, Iowa where he served as city attorney (1892) and prosecuting county attorney (1893-1897). Kendall was elected to his first of 5 terms in the Iowa House of Representatives in 1899, serving as speaker of the House in his fifth term. From 1909 through 1913 he served as an Iowa representative to the U.S. Congress. He was sworn in as governor in 1921 and served until 1925 when he...