Papers, 1801-[1945]

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Papers, 1801-[1945]

Literary and political correspondence of Tourgee and his family, business papers, manuscript and printed copies of many of Tourgee's works (novels, poems, articles, speeches), diaries of Tourgee and his wife Emma Kilborn Tourgee, scrapbooks, and notebooks. Documents from Civil War service as Federal District Judge at Greensboro, North Carolina, after the Civil War, and as U.S. Consul to Bordeaux; also judge's order book, Superior Court, 7th District of North Carolina, 1868-69.

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Tourgée, Albion W. 1838-1905

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American politician and author. From the description of Autograph letter signed : Philadelphia, to an unidentified recipient, 1882 Jun. 16. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270572884 Author, civil rights leader, and jurist Albion W. Tourgée was born May 2, 1838 in Williamsfield in the Western Reserve of Ohio, then a center of abolitionist activity. He attended the University of Rochester in New York, but left to enlist in the Union army during the Civil War. Wounded in battle...