McAllister Autograph Collection, 19th century (bulk).

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McAllister Autograph Collection, 19th century (bulk).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/172833763

A collection of approximately four hundred autographs clipped from letters and documents that contains signatures of most of the prominent men (and six women) in eighteenth and nineteenth-century American history. There is also a specific group of Civil War-era autographs collected from servicemen during the war.

2 boxes .83 linear ft.

Porterville Public Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 6919176

Porterville Public Library

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McAllister, John A. (John Allister), 1822-1896

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Barnard Gratz (1738-1801) and his brother Michael (1740-1811) immigrated to Philadelphia in the 1750s. They were merchants active during the Revolutionary period, and who formed partnerships with the merchants David Franks (1720-1794) of New York and Philadelphia, and Joseph Simon (ca. 1712-1804) of Lancaster, PA. Michael Gratz's two sons, Simon (1773-1839) and Hyman (1776-1857), inherited their father's business. From the description of Gratz-Franks-Simon Papers, 1752-1831 (inclusiv...