Amasa Walker papers, 1823-1902.

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Amasa Walker papers, 1823-1902.

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Loose papers of Amasa Walker, political economist, abolitionist, peace advocate, farmer, and merchant of North Brookfield, Mass. contain correspondence on subjects including the peace movement and League of Universal Brotherhood, national politics, particularly with regard to the slavery question, and lectures. Correspondents include Charles Sumner and Thomas Drew. Also included are a few family letters. (Cont'd) Seven scrapbooks contain clippings on Walker's views in debates over slavery, currency and bank failures, and other misc. subjects. Several of the vols. had been used by Walker as account books and are partially or wholly obscured by the clippings. These include two account books and a financial letterbook (1837-39) of the India Fire and Marine Insurance Co. of Boston of which Walker was a trustee and an account book recording sales of dry goods by the Boston firm of Carleton, Walker, and Co. (1825-27). (Cont'd) One vol. also contains an undated account of a voyage to Malta by Robert W. Walker. The collection also includes an anonymous account book recording sales of shoes and boots (1848); accounts of the "Hale farm" in North Brookfield (1855-63); two small vols. kept by Walker as one of the commissioners appointed by the state to investigate an epidemic of pleuropneumonia among cattle, including the results of examinations of the herds in eastern Mass. (1860); and a scrapbook containing obituaries of Walker's son, Francis A. Walker (1897).

3 boxes and 2 narrow boxes.

Massachusetts Historical Society

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SNAC Resource ID: 7338555

Massachusetts Historical Society

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Walker, Robert W.

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India Fire and Marine Insurance Company (Boston, Mass.)

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Walker, Francis Amasa, 1840-1897

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American economist and educator. From the description of Autograph letter signed : Boston, to the editors of The Critic [Jeannette L. and Joseph B. Gilder], 1884 Aug. 14. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 645501803 Lawyer, educator, and economist. From the description of Francis Amasa Walker papers, 1878-1896. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 70981602 American publicist. From the description of Autograph letter signed : New Haven, Conn., to Mr. We...

Carleton, Walker, and Company (Boston, Mass.)

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League of Universal Brotherhood

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Walker family.

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Walker, Amasa, 1799-1875

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Economist and U.S. Representative; also Massachusetts Secretary of the Commonwealth (1851-1853). From the description of Amasa Walker document signed, 1851-1852. (Maine Historical Society Library). WorldCat record id: 232608557 ...

Sumner, Charles, 1811-1874

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Massachusetts lawyer and U.S. Senator, 1851-1874. He was an ardent abolitionist who attacked the south in his "crime against Kansas" speech in 1856. Two days later he was assaulted in the Senate, receiving injuries that took him years to recover from. From the description of Letters, 1858-1869. (Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library). WorldCat record id: 55768315 Born in Boston, Mass., the U.S. statesman Charles Sumner studied law at Harvard and practiced law in his native ci...

Drew, Thomas.

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