Letters, 1876-1914.

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Letters, 1876-1914.

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Consists primarily of letters of Francis Vinton Greene to his mother Mrs. Martha Barrett (Dana) Greene, written in 1876 while he was on a journey by train from Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, to the west coast with General William Tecumseh Sherman, 1820-1891, and James Donald Cameron, 1833-1918, railroad president, U.S. senator, and U.S. secretary of war, and their families.

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Sherman, William T. (William Tecumseh), 1820-1891

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Sherman was born in 1820 in Lancaster, Ohio, near the banks of the Hocking River. His father, Charles Robert Sherman, a successful lawyer who sat on the Ohio Supreme Court, died unexpectedly in 1829. He left his widow, Mary Hoyt Sherman, with eleven children and no inheritance. After his father's death, the nine-year-old Sherman was raised by a Lancaster neighbor and family friend, attorney Thomas Ewing, Sr., a prominent member of the Whig Party who served as senator from Ohio and as the first S...

Greene, Martha Barrett.

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Cameron, J. D. (James Donald), 1833-1918

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Senator from Penna. From the description of Autograph letter signed : Philadelphia, to Whitelaw Reid, 1878 Nov. 21. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270133624 James Donald Cameron was born in Middletown, Pennsylvania in 1833. He was president of the Northern Central Railroad from 1863 to 1874. Cameron served as Secretary of War in 1876 to 1877 and as Pennsylvania Senator from 1877 to 1897. He died in 1918. From the description of Letter to Henry J. Gensler, 1885, S...

Greene, F. V. (Francis Vinton), 1850-1921

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General, historian, and engineer. From the description of Letters, 1876-1914. (Indiana University). WorldCat record id: 36929250 Francis Vinton Greene was born on 27 June 1850. He graduated from West Point in 1870 and served as second lieutenant of artillery until 1872, when he transferred to the Army Corps of Engineers. He was promoted to first lieutenant in 1874 and served as military attache to the U.S. Legation in Russia from 1877-1878. He was put in charge of public wor...