Joel Aldrich Matteson correspondence, 1853-1857.

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Joel Aldrich Matteson correspondence, 1853-1857.

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Correspondence concerns state debt, canals, railroads, bonds, agriculture, Hardin County lead mines, city charter revisions, slavery, abolitionist activity and public lands. Other significant subjects concern judicial cases and Missouri border troubles. The correspondence also contains resolutions concerning slavery drawn up at mass meetings; a Springfield contractor's specifications for building the First State Arsenal; an 1852 industrial census of Quincy and Ottawa (including the type and quantity of products clearing the Illinois and Michigan Canal at Ottawa). Incoming letters include those from private citizens, members of the Illinois House of Representatives, building committeemen of the Illinois State Hospital for the Insane at Jacksonville, bond agents, and U. S. State Dept. officials. Outgoing correspondence includes communications to the State Geologist, county clerks and lawyers.

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The Department of Foreign Affairs was established by an act of July 27, 1789 (1 Stat. 28) and redesignated the Department of State by an act of September 15, 1789 (1 Stat. 68). It was the agency of the United States created by law to assist the President in the formulation and execution of the Nation's foreign policy, and in the conduct of foreign affairs and of certain domestic affairs. The Department made plans for peace and security among all nations, participated in the United Nations and o...

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Joel Aldrich Matteson (1808-1873), Democratic Governor of Illinois (1853-1857), was born at Watertown, N. Y. on Aug. 8, 1808. Matteson engaged in various occupations including running businesses in Prescott, Ontario and Brownsville, N.Y.; teaching school; and being a foreman on the first railroad in South Carolina (1831). After marrying Mary Fish at Watertown on Oct. 7, 1832, Matteson came to Illinois (ca. 1834), becoming a contractor on the Illinois and Michigan Canal and engaging in manufactur...

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Matteson, Joel A. (Joel Aldrich), 1808-1873

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