John Lourie Beveridge correspondence, 1873-1877.

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John Lourie Beveridge correspondence, 1873-1877.

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Correspondence primarily concerns law enforcement matters such as strikes, mob disorders, the Pinkerton Detective Agency, the Ku Klux Klan, lynchings, posses, militia law, extraditions, prizefights, bigamy, bastardy, grand juries, penitentiaries, wardens, jail escapees, commutations, executive clemency, and pardons. Correspondence also provides information concerning immigration, the Chicago Fire of 1871; the Constitution of 1870; the State House; insects; hog cholera; flax cultivation; geological surveys; oil; swamp lands; land patents; revenue laws; public charities; insane asylums; foreign insurance companies operating in Illinois; the Black Hawk War; internal improvement claims; Gatling-gun experiments; volunteers for Indian wars; dikes; canals, dams, and waterpower; state institutions and commissions; and the Philadelphia Centennial Exhibition. The correspondence also contains letters and lists of volunteers compiled for a potential war with Spain or against the Sioux Indians in response to the Battle of the Little Big Horn.

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