Papers of Peter Townsend Barlow, 1884-1921 (inclusive).

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Papers of Peter Townsend Barlow, 1884-1921 (inclusive).

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Collection includes court documents and correspondence relating to Barlow's work as magistrate; personal and professional correspondence including letters from his wife during a trip to Europe in 1889; a scrapbook containing congratulatory notes on their engagement, 1885; correspondence and other documents of his sister-in-law Florence Matthews; records concerning a Sioux scrip case, 1889; stock certificates; Townsend and Barlow family histories; family financial and legal records; etc.

2 linear ft. (2 cartons, 1 folio+ folder)

Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America‏

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SNAC Resource ID: 7449985

Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America‏

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New York (N.Y.). Board of City Magistrates

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Townsend family.

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Barlow family.

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Barlow, Peter Townsend, 1857-1921.

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New York City judge Peter Townsend Barlow was born in New York, the son of Alice and Samuel Latham Mitchell Barlow (1826-1889), an attorney. He graduated from Harvard College in 1879 and studied law at Columbia Law School, graduating in 1881. In 1886 he married Virginia Louise Matthews; they had two sons: Edward and Samuel. In 1903 he was appointed as city magistrate, overseeing the women's night court in Manhattan. Interested in the social conditions afflicting the poor, Barlow served as presid...