Letter, 1864 April 30 : New York, N.Y., to [Judge Edwards Pierrepont].

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Letter, 1864 April 30 : New York, N.Y., to [Judge Edwards Pierrepont].

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/19852718

This letter proposes creation of an organization to pay for the passage of emigrants, particularly from Ireland and Germany, to the U.S. West.

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Balch Institute for Ethnic Studies Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 6971512

Balch Institute for Ethnic Studies Library

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Aspinwall, William Henry, 1807-1875

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Aspinwall was a railroad tycoon who had a near monopoly of trade between New York City and San Francisco before the completion of the transcontinental line. Pierrepont was a friend of President Lincoln and later Grant's Attorney General. From the description of Letter, 1864 April 30 : New York, N.Y., to [Judge Edwards Pierrepont]. (Balch Institute for Ethnic Studies Library). WorldCat record id: 19852718 ...

Pierrepont, Edwards, 1817-1892

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Lawyer, of New York, N.Y., U.S. attorney general, and ambassador to Great Britain. From the description of Papers of Edwards Pierrepont, 1847-1900. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 81338859 A prominent New York lawyer and politician and Democrat who was against secession and supportive of the use of force to protect the Union. President Lincoln appointed him to try the cases of those who had been imprisoned in the North for suspected disloyalty to the Union cause and after the...