Correspondence, 1894-1896.

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Correspondence, 1894-1896.

Primarily political correspondence with several U.S. Senators and Representatives, Ohio Governors, and officers of various county Republican organizations. Correspondents include Theodore E. Burton, Asa S. Bushnell, Charles L. Kurtz, William McKinley, John Sherman, and Caleb B. Wick.

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Sherman, John, 1823-1900

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Sherman was born in Lancaster, Ohio to Charles Robert Sherman and his wife, Mary Hoyt Sherman, the eighth of their 11 children. John Sherman's grandfather, Taylor Sherman, a Connecticut lawyer and judge, first visited Ohio in the early nineteenth century, gaining title to several parcels of land before returning to Connecticut. After Taylor's death in 1815, his son Charles, newly married to Mary Hoyt, moved the family west to Ohio. Several other Sherman relatives soon followed, and Charles becam...

Mckinley, William, 1843-1901

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Wick, Caleb B.

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Burton, Theodore E. (Theodore Elijah), 1851-1929

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U.S. Representative (1889-91, 1895-1909, and 1921-28) and Senator (1909-15 and 1928-29) from Cleveland, Ohio. While in Congress, Burton was involved in a number of important issues of the day, and was also a prominent figure in Republican Party politics. He maintained a lifelong involvement in the international peace movement. Burton was a candidate in the 1907 Cleveland mayoral election, losing to Democrat Tom L. Johnson. A bachelor, he was close to his niece, Grace Burton, who became a politic...

Kurtz, Charles L. (Charles Lindley), 1854-1929

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Bushnell, Asa Smith, 1834-1904

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Hoyt, James Humphrey, 1850-1917.

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Lawyer and Republican politician, of Cleveland, Ohio. From the description of Correspondence, 1894-1896. (Rhinelander District Library). WorldCat record id: 18375978 ...