John Marshall Hamilton correspondence, 1883-1885.

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John Marshall Hamilton correspondence, 1883-1885.

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Correspondence concerns such topics as banks, women's suffrage, insane asylums, Canadian custom regulations, miners' strikes, short-and long-haul railroad rates, obscene literature, the temperance movement, school lands, health hazards (e.g. arsenic poisoning; animal diseases) and disasters (e.g., Southern Illinois University fire; Ohio and Illinois river floods). Other common topics include federal interest payments to Illinois on Civil War debts; the Republican Party (e.g. anti-Republican newspapers; German-American members); free services provided by hotels, railroads and newspapers; Railroad and Warehouse Commission appointments and protests to these appointments. Social issues include pleas from women for relief from divorce decrees in which husbands were provided full property awards; and the treatment of blacks (e.g. group meetings; expulsions from towns; and lynchings). Correspondents include government officials and private citizens. File also includes record of appointments made by the Governor.

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