Papers, 1889-1956.

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Papers, 1889-1956.

Correspondence relating to the Hercules Mining Company and personal correspondence, records relating to Day's activities with the State Bank of Commerce, 1905-1936; Federal Mining and Smelting Company, 1912-1921; his proprty and investments, such as Wallac Realty Co., and other mining activities. Other papers include Day's financial records, date books, and an early ore shipment record. Also included is an 1848 W.T. Sherman letter and an 1882 autographed portrait.

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SNAC Resource ID: 7445375

University of Idaho Library

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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...

Day, Harry L. (Harry Loren), 1865-1942

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Harry Loren Day, the eldest son of Henry and Ellen Day, was born at Dayton, Nevada, on December 12, 1865. He was graduated from the two-year business course at St. Mary's College, San Francisco, and assisted his father in the family store at Wardner, kept accounts for other merchants, worked in mines in Idaho and Montana, and played a dominant role in the development of the Hercules Mine which he and Fred Harper discovered in 1889. Like his father he was an active Republican in Idah...

State Bank of Commerce (Wallace, Idaho)

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Hercules Mining Company.

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Federal Mining and Smelting Company.

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