Papers, 1815-1881; (bulk 1860-1872).

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Papers, 1815-1881; (bulk 1860-1872).

Business letters, bills, receipts, and checks. Topics include stock speculation, zinc stocks, mercantile accounts, silverware, personal debts, banking in New York and in Lynchburg, land speculation in Iowa, and agricultural machinery. Writers of letters and other persons mentioned in the collection include Charles Minor Blackford, Sr., Thomas Stanhope Flournoy, William Hurley, Frank G. Peters, J.M. McJimsey, John R. Garland, Paul Carrington Callaway, Abraham Lincoln, Ulysses S. Grant, Grenville Mellen Dodge, D.T. Williams, Oddie & St. George (firm), John Goode, Jr., and Lieutenant Coles Peters, C.S.A.

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Dodge, Grenville Mellen, 1831-1916

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Grenville M. Dodge of Council Bluffs, Iowa, was a Civil War general; prominent national railroad surveyor and engineer; and U.S. Representative. Dodge conducted surveys for the Illinois Central, Rock Island (Mississippi to Missouri line), and the Union Pacific railroads before the Civil War. He was commissioned as Colonel with the 4th Iowa Volunteer Infantry in 1861 and promoted to Brigadier General of the United States Volunteers in 1862 and then Major General in 1864. In addition to combat, he...

Grant, Ulysses Simpson, 1822-1885

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Ulysses S. Grant (born Hiram Ulysses Grant, April 27, 1822, Point Pleasant, Ohio-died July 23, 1885, Wilton, New York) was the 18th president of the United States, serving from 1869 to 1877. As president, Grant was an effective civil rights executive who worked with the Radical Republicans during Reconstruction to protect African Americans, created the Justice Department, and reestablish the public credit. Promoted lieutenant-general, in 1864, Grant led the Union Army in winning the American Civ...

McJimsey, J. M.

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Williams, D. T.

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Peters, Don T. C.

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Merchant and stock speculator, of Lynchburg (Campbell Co.), Va. From the description of Papers, 1815-1881; (bulk 1860-1872). (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 20078023 ...

Flournoy, Thomas S. (Thomas Stanhope), 1811-1883

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Callaway, Paul Carrington, 1815-1876.

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Peters, Coles.

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Blackford, Charles Minor, 1833-1903

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Oddie & St. George (Firm)

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Goode, John, Jr.

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Peters, Frank, 1964-

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Hurley, William, 1953-

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Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865

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Abraham Lincoln (born February 12, 1809, Sinking Spring Farm near Hodgenville, Kentucky-died April 15, 1865, Washington, D.C.) was the sixteenth President of the United States from 1861 until his death by assassination. He was the son of a Kentucky frontiersman, Thomas Lincoln, and Nancy Hanks. In 1816, Lincoln moved to Pigeon Creek, Indiana, where he worked on his family's farm. Following his mother's death two years later, he continued working on farms until moving with his father to New Sa...

Garland, John James, 1949-

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