Papers, 1841-1852.

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Papers, 1841-1852.

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300 letters from state financial agents in New York and London, England re: debt. 100 letters re: Illinois-Michigan Canal. 50 letters dealing with Illinois Central Railroad. 50 letters dealing with the St. Louis dike. 20 letters re: problems in Massac County. A series of letters dealing with administrative problems at the Jacksonville Asylum. Several letters re: violence at Bishop Hill colony including a sworn statement from the abused woman, who the troublemakers demanded be returned to her husband. Other topics include building a state university, housing women in the Alton prison, the sale of Quincy House, the return of a French-Negro kidnapped and taken to Missouri as a slave, Illinois as a place for German immigrants, David Dale Owens as head of the Geological Survey, Reverend Chiniquy and Canadian emigrants in Iroquois County, one letter from Dorothea Dix re: Alton Prison and the Jacksonville Asylum. Political commentary in many letters including those from John Wentworth, Sidney Breese, Stephen A. Douglas, Orlando B. Ficklin, Philip Fouke, Thomas L. Harris, John Hogan, William Jackson, Joel A. Matteson, John A. McClernand, Elam Rust, Peter Sweatt, James Shields, Lyman Trumbull, Elijah Wilcox, Timothy Roberts Young and C. Zarley.

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Jacksonville Insane Asylum (Ill.)

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Root, Charlotte Louise.

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Quincy House (Quincy, Ill.)

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McClernand, John A. (John Alexander), 1812-1900

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Illinois politician and soldier. From the description of Report, 1861 Nov. 12. (Filson Historical Society, The). WorldCat record id: 49252333 Prior to his appointment as Brigadier General of the volunteers by Abraham Lincoln, McClernand had served in the Black Hawk War, studied law and passed the bar, been elected to the Illinois legislature and to the U.S. House of Representatives. He served under Grant at Belmont, Fort Henry, Fort Donelson, Shiloh and Arkansas Post, until ...

Turner, J. B. (Jonathan Baldwin), 1805-1899

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French, Augustus C., 1808-1864

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Lawyer who came from New York to Illinois in 1832 and was elected to the state legislature in 1836, and to the governor's office in 1846 after which he was appointed state bank commissioner and taught law at McKendree College. During his tenure as governor he gained Illinois a reputation for fiscal integrity by paying state debts accrued by internal improvements such as the Illinois-Michigan Canal and the Illinois Central Railroad. He also worked to build the Jacksonville Insane Asylum. Dealt wi...

Wadsworth, Julius

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Railroad company executive, Chicago businessman, founding partner Wadsworth and Dyer Drygoods, 1836. Held several real estate properties in Chicago. Vestryman of Holy Trinity Church, New York City. From the description of Papers, 1841-1895 and undated. (Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library). WorldCat record id: 39312578 ...

Wilcox, Elijah.

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Illinois Central Railroad.

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Schuyler, Robert, 1797 or 1798-1855

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Gooding, William, 1803-1878

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Wentworth, John, 1815-1888

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John Wentworth, Dartmouth Class of 1836; born Sandwich, NH, 1815; lawyer, mayor of Chicago, 1857 and 1860, member of Congress, 1843-51 and 1865-67. From the description of Letters, 1860-1861, to Richard Yates. (New Hampshire Newsp Project). WorldCat record id: 80527012 Early settler of Chicago who owned much property there, newspaper editor, Democratic and then Republican politician, Congressman, and mayor of Chicago. From the description of Letters, 1847-1884. (...

Trumbull, Lyman, 1813-1896

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Lawyer from Belleville, Illinois; United States Senator (1855-1873); State Supreme Court Justice (1848-1853); State Representative, St. Clair County (1840-1842); Illinois Secretary of State (1841-1843); unsuccessful candidate for Governor (1880). From the description of Letter, September 29, 1842. (Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library). WorldCat record id: 71275513 Lawyer from Belleville, Illinois; United States Senator (1855-1873); State Supreme Court Justice (1848-1853); S...

Dix, Dorothea Lynde, 1802-1887

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Dix was a humanitarian crusader for the mentally ill. She investigated the conditions of the hospitalized insane in many U.S. states and some European countries, and petitioned state and national legislatures for reforms. She was also superintendent of army nurses during the Civil War. Eliot was a Unitarian minister, an educator, and assisted in the founding of Reed College in Oregon. From the description of Letters to Thomas Lamb Eliot, 1869-1885. (Harvard University). WorldCat reco...

Owens, David Dale.

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Shields, James, 1806-1879

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Born in Ireland, came to Illinois in 1823 and was admitted to the Illinois Bar in 1832 practicing in Kaskaskia. He served as Assoc. Justice of the Supreme Court; state auditor, 1841-1843; Brig. Gen. in the Mexican War; U.S. Senator from Illinois, 1858-1861 when he resigned to accept a commission as Brig. Gen, with the Illinois Volunteers. From the description of Letters, 1844-1853. (Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library). WorldCat record id: 54848368 Shields was an Illinois l...

Breese, Sidney, 1800-1878

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Lawyer, Kaskaskia, Illinois; U.S. district attorney, 1827-1829; lieutenant colonel, Black Hawk War; U.S. senator, 1843-1845; Illinois House of Representatives, 1851-1852; Illinois Supreme Court justice, 1841-1843, 1857-1878. From the description of Letters, 1845, 1851, 1875. (Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library). WorldCat record id: 27418211 From the description of Papers re: election of 1858, 1849-1858. (Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library). WorldCat record id: 27418204 ...

Fouke, Philip B. (Philip Bond), 1818-1876

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Oakley, Charles, 1792-1849

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Matteson, Joel A. (Joel Aldrich), 1808-1873

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Came to Illinois at the age of 25 from New York, dabbled in real estate, was a contractor on the Illinois Michigan Canal, owned a woolen mill, a store and founded the first bank in Joliet, Ill., was elected to the state senate from that city and elected governor in 1852. From the description of Papers, 1845, 1854. (Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library). WorldCat record id: 52751212 Governor of Illinois, 1853-1857. From the description of Commission, April 21, 185...