Samuel N. Wood letters [microform], 1857-1870.

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Samuel N. Wood letters [microform], 1857-1870.

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Letters from Samuel N. Wood to Salmon P. Chase.

1 partial microfilm reel ; 35 mm.

Kansas State Historical Society

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SNAC Resource ID: 7680201

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Wood, S. N. (Samuel Newitt)

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Samuel Newitt Wood was born into a Quaker family at Mount Gilead, Ohio on 30 December 1825. From an early age, Wood interested himself in politics and in the abolitionist cause, acting as a conductor on the underground railroad. It was in this endeavor that he met his future wife, Margaret Walker Lyon, with whom he had four children. After teaching and reading law, he was admitted to the bar in 1854. That same year, Wood and his wife headed to Kansas in the name of the free state cause; Wood set...

Chase, Salmon P. (Salmon Portland), 1808-1873

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Lawyer. From the description of Letter, 1845 March 4, Cincinnati, [Ohio], to Robert F. Paine, Columbus, O[hio]. (University of Toledo). WorldCat record id: 13541605 Salmon P. Chase served as the Secretary of the Treasury from 1861 to 1864. He oversaw the creation of the Bureau of Internal Revenue (1862) and implemented the introduction of the income tax and the national currency. From the description of Letter press book of the Secretary of the Treasury. 1863, Ju...