Alonzo Snyder papers, 1779-1919 (bulk 1800-1860).

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Alonzo Snyder papers, 1779-1919 (bulk 1800-1860).

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Snyder's business, official and personal papers consist of letters, land records, financial papers, and legal record books that reflect his legal cases, state laws, politics, plantation management, secession, the Civil War, public health (cholera and yellow fever epidemics), and family matters. Included are papers (1779-1856) of Jacob Bieller owner of plantations in Catahoula, Tensas, and Franklin Parishes. Papers document plantation management, cotton growing, livestock, and family matters. Correspondence (1823-1834) of the Bieller family discusses corporal punishment, medical treatment, and health of slaves. Papers (1825-1840) document transportation and sale of cotton by New Orleans factors, and property appraisals of Mound Bayou and China Grove Plantations in Tensas Parish. Bieller's papers include a record of punishments of slaves resulting in deaths (1844), 36 slave bills of sale, an account of 56 slaves brought to Louisiana (1810), a memorandum recording the trade of a Negro family for land in Concordia Parish (1810), a plea in defense of a runaway slave (1830), records of deaths of slaves during a cholera epidemic, prescriptions for medicines administered to slaves, and a record of manumission proceedings (1850). Accounts of work done by slaves are included. Personal papers (1839-1861) reflect Snyder's interest in national and local elections, the whig and democratic parties, the Lopez Expedition to Cuba (1849-1851), secession, and Snyder's efforts to equip local Confederate military units. Individuals represented in the papers include William E. Butler, William J. Minor, James R. Bisland, James Dunlap, Isaac Thomas, James G. Leach, H.B. Shaw, T. Wilbur Compton, John Perkins, T.V. David, William A. King, and F.L. Claiborne. Letters (1852) to Snyder from his political constituency concern the timber industry in Louisiana, road construction in East Carroll Parish, levee laws, and the Carroll-Franklin Parish boundary. A letter from Governor Robert Wickliffe relates to the convention bill, 1852. A broadside (1919) presents Woodrow Wilson's argument for support of the ratification of the federal suffrage amendment.

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Louisiana State University, LSU Libraries

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Louisiana State University, LSU Libraries

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Snyder, Alonzo.

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Cotton planter, judge, and Louisiana Senator from Madison and Tensas Parishes, Louisiana. From the description of Alonzo Snyder papers, 1779-1919 (bulk 1800-1860). (Louisiana State University). WorldCat record id: 244252247 ...

Wickliffe, Robert C. (Robert Charles), 1819-1895

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Bieller, Jacob, d. 1843.

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