John Riley Tanner correspondence, 1897-1901.

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John Riley Tanner correspondence, 1897-1901.

Correspondence concerns labor problems and Spanish American War matters (e. g. relief for Cubans), the Philippine War, and the Boxer Rebellion. Correspondence also deals with new legislation concerning hunting, racing, horseshoe licensing, state civil service, competitive bidding for state contracts, the eight-hour workday, Jewish holidays, cigarette smoking, fire escapes, water gas, osteopathy, food and drugs, killing of prairie chickens, and voting machines. Other topics of correspondence are the Chicago lakefront, Chicago River, University of Illinois funds, Shawneetown flood, battleship Illinois, gunboat Nashville, Inter-Oceanic Canal Commission, Puerto Rican hurricane relief, beet sugar, meat purchases from Armour Packing Company, smallpox, cattle with tuberculosis, state epileptic colony, cement sidewalks, and Populists. Correspondents include local, state, and national government officials, private citizens, and foreign consuls. File also includes a partial listing of appointments made by the Governor.

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John Riley Tanner (1844-1901), Republican Governor of Illinois (1897-1901), was born in Warrick Co., Ind. on April 4, 1844 and grew up on a farm near Carbondale, Ill. He served in the 98th Illinois Volunteers (1863-June 1865) and the 61st Regiment (June-Sept. 1865). After the war, Tanner established himself as a farmer in Clay Co., Ill., where on Dec. 25, 1866, he married Lauretta Ingraham. Besides being a partner of his brother in the milling and lumber business, Tanner held a number of public ...

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