Autograph collection : [17--?-19--?].

Tarkington, John Stevenson, 1832-1923

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Indianapolis, Ind. lawyer, judge, soldier, congressman and author. Tarkington married Elizabeth Booth and they had two children, author Booth Tarkington and Mary Booth Tarkington Jameson, nicknamed "Haute." Later in life John Tarkington married Linda Schulz after the death of his first wife, and wrote two collections of essays under the pseudonym John Steventon. From the description of Papers, 1844-1923 (bulk 1910-1923) (Indiana Historical Society Library). WorldCat record id: 359630...

May, Samuel J. (Samuel Joseph), 1797-1871

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Samuel May was a Unitarian clergyman of Syracuse, New York with connections to national organizations related to anti-Slavery, temperance, and suffrage, among others. From the description of Samuel J. May diary, 1867. (Cornell University Library). WorldCat record id: 64691611 Samuel May was a Unitarian Clergyman of Syracuse, New York with connections to national organizations related to Freedman's Relief, Temperance, and Suffrage, among others. From the descripti...

Brown, Henry Billings, 1836-1913

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American judge, associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court from 1890-1906 and an authority on admiralty law. From the description of Henry Billings Brown items, [ca. 1875]-1903. (Cornell University Library). WorldCat record id: 63936800 Henry Billings Brown attended both Harvard and Yale Law Schools, and served on the U.S. Supreme Court (1891-1906.) From the description of Letter and autograph, 2 June 1892. (Harvard Law School Library). WorldCat record id: 23433...

Barbour, James

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Steele, T. C. (Theodore Clement), 1847-1926

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A native of Indiana, Steele was primarily known as a landscape artist with an interest in Impressionism and as a member of the Hoosier School of art. He married Mary E. Lakin in 1870 and moved to Indianapolis, working primarily as a portrait painter. From 1880 to 1885 he studied in Munich, and returned to Indianapolis with an interest in landscape painting. By the 1890s, Steele was becoming nationally recognized for his landscapes. His wife died in 1899; in 1907 he married Selma Neubacher and es...

Goodrich, James P. (James Putnam), 1864-1940

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Clarke, Lewis Garrard, 1812-1897

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Byrd, Charles Willing, 1770-1828

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The Byrd mss., 1794-1881, are papers of Charles Willing Byrd, 1770-1828, a member of the prominent Virginia family of that name. He was born in Virginia, received his academic and legal education in Philadelphia, and, in 1794, went to Kentucky to look after Robert Morris' land interests there. He was appointed Secretary of the Northwest Territory by President John Adams in 1799, and served as Acting Governor from 1802 to 1803 following the removal from office of General Arthur St. Clair. He was ...