Papers, 1826-1858.

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Papers, 1826-1858.

Typed copies of a biographical sketch and letters of Jonathan Knight. Letters to family members discuss his work in Illinois on the National Road, his visit to England and France to study locomotives and railroads, his work on the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, the presidential campaign of 1840, Whig and Democratic politics, slavery, the Quakers, commodity prices in Pennsylvania, railroad building in Iowa, his election to Congress, and the Brooks-Sumner affair.

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