David Levy Yulee Papers, 1800-1954 1840-1886.

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David Levy Yulee Papers, 1800-1954 1840-1886.

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As a key political figure and a leading entrepreneur of Florida in the 19th century, the Yulee Papers are an invaluable resource for information related to Yulee's personal and business affairs, the politics of the time, railroads in Florida, and to industrial capitalism in general. The collection includes correspondence, business and legal papers, copybooks, letterbooks, maps and surveys, newspaper clippings, pamphlets, land abstracts, and photographs. Although the collection spans from 1800 to 1954, the bulk of the materials are dated between 1840 and 1886. In addition, the majority of the correspondence and business papers created following David L. Yulee's death in 1886 are those of his son, C. Wickliffe Yulee. The majority of the collection is comprised of the voluminous business, personal, and family correspondence created or received by Yulee from the 1840s to 1886. Numerous files, primarily dated from the 1850s to the 1880s, pertain to the development and management of the Florida Railroad. The collection's subject matter also includes land grants, Spanish Florida, plantation ownership, the development of Fernandina, secession and the Confederate States, slavery, the Civil War, Reconstruction, and the development land companies of the 1900s. There also are several files pertaining to Yulee's father, Moses E. Levy.

17 linear feet. (42 Boxes)

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Yulee, David Levy, 1810-1886

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David Levy Yulee (born David Levy; June 12, 1810 – October 10, 1886) was an American politician and attorney. A member of the Democratic Party, he served as Florida's territorial delegate to Congress from 1841 to 1845 and as one of its first U.S. Senators from 1845 to 1851 and again from 1855 to 1861. Yulee was the first person of Jewish ancestry to be elected and serve as a U.S. Senator. He founded the Florida Railroad Company and served as president of several other companies, earning the nick...

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Swann, Samuel Ashe, 1832-1909

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Levy, Moses E.

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