Papers [microform]. 1770-1933.

Library of Congress. Manuscript Division

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The Manuscript Division was one of several "departments" established in 1897 when the Library of Congress moved from the United States Capitol to a separate building nearby. Its staff of four assumed custody of a collection of twenty-five thousand manuscripts which had accumulated throughout the nineteenth century, chiefly through the purchase in 1867 of Peter Force's collection of Americana, the gift in 1882 of Joseph M. Toner's collection relating to George Washington and American medical hist...

Sellers, John R.

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Hay, Eugene Gano, 1853-1933

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Eugene Gano Hay was born in Charlestown, Indiana, on March 26, 1853, the son of Andrew Jennings Hay and Rebecca Garrett. He was admitted to the bar in 1877 and practiced law in Madison, Indiana, from 1877-1880. From 1880-1884, Hay worked as a prosecuting attorney in Jefferson County and Switzerland County, Indiana, and in 1885 he moved to Minneapolis, Minnesota, where he served as the United States Attorney for the District of Minnesota from 1890-1894. In 1903, he was appointed to the Board of G...