Isaac Ingalls Stevens papers, 1835-1972 1835-1862.

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Isaac Ingalls Stevens papers, 1835-1972 1835-1862.

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This collection contains original and copies of correspondence of Isaac I. Stevens from 1835 until about 1862. The personal correspondence includes letters from his sister, uncle, cousin and friend. Of particular interest may be a letter (1862) requesting Hazard, his son, to be a part of his command during the Civil War. There is incoming and outgoing correspondence pertaining to Territorial government matters. There is a manuscript parchment paper copying book with 87 copies of letters that pertain to governmental matters. The copying book includes letters from territorial governors including Chas. Mason, acting Governor for Stevens, and Gov. Solomon. There is correspondence concerning some of the Stevens' collections in Washington State, including inventories at the time (1967-1972). There are biographical notes about Isaac Stevens and his family, including the family tree of Isaac & Margaret Stevens. There are 2 black & white negatives of portraits of Stevens. The current negatives are of portraits taken about 1853 and the other, in 1862 of Stevens in his full Brigadier General uniform.

.5 linear foot (1 box)

Washington State Library, Office of Secretary of State

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SNAC Resource ID: 7159310

Washington State Library, Office of Secretary of State

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Eastern Washington State Historical Society

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University of Oregon. Libraries

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Stevens, Hazard, 1842-1918

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Lawyer, army officer, and public official from Massachusetts. From the description of Hazard Stevens family papers, 1835-1918. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 77939719 Attorney and military officer. From the description of Hazard Stevens papers, circa 1861-circa 1930. (Washington State University). WorldCat record id: 61660950 From the description of Hazard Stevens manuscript map depicting Battle of James Island, circa 1890-1900. (Washington State Univers...

Washington Territory. Governor (1870-1872 : Salomon)

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Edward S. Salomon was born in Schleswig-Holstein (Germany) in 1836. After completing high school there, he emigrated to the U.S. He settled in Chicago, where he studied law and was elected alderman in 1860. At the outbreak of the Civil War, Salomon joined the 24th Illinois Infantry as a second lieutenant and soon rose to the rank of colonel. Before the end of the war he was brevetted brigadier general, having served with distinction in the battles of Chancellorsville, Gettysburg, Ch...

Washington State Archives

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Eskridge, Susan Stevens.

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Saltzman, Charles E. (Charles Eskridge), 1903-1994

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Charles Eskridge Saltzman was born on September 19, 1903 in Zamboanga, in the Philippines. Saltzman¿s father, Charles McKinley Saltzman, was a captain in the Signal Corps of the U.S. Army, and was on the staff of Major General Leonard Wood at the time of his son¿s birth. The elder Saltzman would also later serve as the chairman of the Federal Radio Commission during the 1920s. Due to the postings of the elder Saltzman, young Charles and his mother, Mary Eskridge Saltzman, lived in the Philippine...

Stevens, Margaret Lyman, ca. 1819.

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Salomon, Edward S. (Edward Selig), 1836-1913

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Edward Selig Salomon (December 25, 1836 – July 18, 1913) was a Prussian-born American politician, attorney, and lawyer. A member of the Republican Party, he notably served as the youngest alderman on the Chicago City Council from 1861 to 1863 and as Governor of Washington Territory from 1870 to 1872. Born in the Prussian duchy of Schleswig, he emigrated to Illinois in 1856; five years later, he was elected alderman of Chicago's sixth ward, the youngest in Chicago history. In July 1861, Salomo...

Stevens family.

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Washington State Historical Society. Museum

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Stevens, Isaac Ingalls, 1818-1862

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Graduate of West Point who served in Mexican War. Indian agent, Governor and delegate to Congress for Washington Territory. Chairman of the National Democratic Executive Committee in 1860. Major General in Union Army and killed at Chantilly, Va. in 1862. From the description of Letter, Aug. 9, 1860. (Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library). WorldCat record id: 55662318 Born 1818 in Andover, Mass.; graduate of West Point; served in Mexican War, 1846-47; Indian agent for Washing...

Mason, Charles H., 1830-1859

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Charles H. Mason was born in Maryland about 1830. He moved at the age of 7 to Rhode Island, he graduated with honors from Brown University in 1850 and was recommended for the bar shortly after graduation. In September 1853 he was appointed Secretary of State and he came to West. As hostilities between settlers and First Nations peoples erupted he served the State as Acting Governor in time of war, from Oct. 1855 to Jan. 1856. From 15 May 1855 Mason assisted Stevens in the negotations of the Medi...

Washington Territory. Governor (1853-1857 : Stevens)

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Isaac I. Stevens was born near Andover, Mass., in 1818. Though often in poor health, he worked as a farm hand until his appointment to West Point, where he graduated first in the class of 1839. He entered the Engineering corps and served with distinction with the Coast and Geodetic Survey. Later he was called to action during the Mexican War and was wounded during the taking of Mexico City in 1848. He emerged from the Mexican War with the rank of brevet major. When Washington Territ...