Papers, 1826-1888.

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Papers, 1826-1888.

Business, political and military correspondence and records of land grants in Michigan, Wisconsin and Illinois; correspondents include James Babcock, James Barnard, James Dixon, Mitchell Eaker, James Edmunds, William Faxon, Horace Greeley, Marcus Osborn, Joshua Phelps, Gideon Welles and Horatio Woodman.

10 boxes ; 39 x 26 x 12 cm.

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Greeley, Horace, 1811-1872

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Horace Greeley (February 3, 1811 – November 29, 1872) was an American newspaper editor and publisher who was the founder and editor of the New-York Tribune, among the great newspapers of its time. Long active in politics, he served briefly as a congressman from New York, and was the unsuccessful candidate of the new Liberal Republican party in the 1872 presidential election against incumbent President Ulysses S. Grant, who won by a landslide. Greeley was born to a poor family in Amherst, New ...

Osborn, Marcus B.

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Babcock, James F. (James Fairchild), 1809-1874

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James Woods Babcock, 1856-1922, was born in Chester, South Carolina. He graduated from Philips Academy, Exeter and received both his BA and MD from Harvard University. After working for five years at the McLean Asylum in Somerville, later Waverly, Massachusetts, he accepted the position of superintendent of the State Lunatic Asylum in Columbia, SC. He resigned from that position in 1914 at which time he organized the Waverly Sanitarium in Columbia which he continued to direct until his death in ...

Woodman, Horatio.

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Dixon, James, 1814-1873

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Edmunds, J. M. (James Madison), 1810-1879

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Commissioner of the General Land Office. From the description of Letter, 1865 Dec. 26. (University of Oregon Libraries). WorldCat record id: 23024481 Whig State representative and Senator from Ypsilanti, Michigan, later Republican Commissioner of U.S. Land Office. From the description of James M. Edmunds correspondence, 1861-1866. (University of Michigan). WorldCat record id: 34420521 ...

Eacker, Mitchell.

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Faxon, William, 1822-1883

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Welles, Gideon, 1802-1878

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A native of Glastonbury, Conn., Gideon Welles began his career as a lawyer but took up journalism as a profession, founding the Hartford Times, which he also edited, in 1826. Active in the Democratic Party in Connecticut, he served in the Connecticut state legislature and in several state offices. He later shifted his allegiance to the Republican Party due to his strong anti-slavery views and founded the Hartford Evening Press, a zealously Republican newspaper. President Abraham Lincoln appointe...

Phelps, Joshua, 1812-1889

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Barnard, James Munson

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Howard, Mark, 1817-1887

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