Charles Butler Papers, 1817-1908.

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Charles Butler Papers, 1817-1908.

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Papers, 1817-1908, mostly related to the American Land Company and the Wabash and Erie Canal.They include correspondence, business papers, legal documents, ledgers, pamphlets, scrapbooks of newspaper clippings, and maps. Butler's American Land Company correspondence deals chiefly with property issues along the Mississippi River, public debts in Indiana, and the Wabash and Erie Canal. There is also a small amount of family correspondence, and a letter dated 1833 to the editor of the Albany Argus, concerning travels in the western states. The business papers include land patents for 1841, stock certificates dated 1847 and 1853, state of Michigan reports and the Governor's message of 1849, patent signed by the secretary of the State of Wisconsin 1856, and bound letters from J.L. Williams, chief engineer of the Wabash and Erie Canal. Many business letters are bound into volumes with indexes. Prominent correspondents include Henry and Peter Anderson, Walter Goodman, and James G. King of Indianapolis. Many legal documents refer to the case of Anderson v. Messinger, a property case in Toledo, Ohio; others cncern the Wabash and Erie Canal. Pamphlets/annual reports span the years 1827-1878, and are mostly publications of the Wabash and Erie Canal corporation. The maps inlude state maps of Pennsylvania, Indian and Ohio form the 1840s and 1850s, and a detailed map of Toledo and vicinity, dated 1872 and showing the new additions of the 1850s.

10 linear ft. (22 boxes).

New-York Historical Society

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Indiana. Board of Trustees of the Wabash and Erie Canal

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Anderson, Henry, d. 1846.

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Butler, Charles, 1802-1897

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Charles Butler was a New York lawyer whose activities included New York politics; anti-Masonry; western state bond issues and speculation; New York Life Insurance and Trust Company loans; canal, road and railroad construction; and philanthropy. From the description of Charles Butler Papers, 1817-1908. (New York University, Group Batchload). WorldCat record id: 58788229 Entrepreneur, lawyer, and philanthropist. From the description of Charles Butler papers, 1819-1...

American Land Company

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Anderson, Peter, 1804-1868.

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Goodman, Walter A.

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Dowling, Thomas, 1806-1876

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Thomas Dowling was a politician, newspaperman, and businessman in Terre Haute. He was a newspaper publisher (1832-1845); Whig member, Indiana House of Representatives, serving six terms between 1836 and 1849; trustee, Wabash and Erie Canal (1850's); member, Terre Haute City Council (1867-1871); officer, Terre Haute Savings Bank (1869-1876); and Vigo County Commissioner (1873). From the description of [Collection], 1850-1874. (Lincoln Library). WorldCat record id: 247139381 ...

Williams, J. L. (Jesse Lynch), 1807-1886

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The Central Canal waterway project was designed to link the Wabash and Erie Canal with cities throughout Indiana and Ohio. Construction began in 1836 but by the end of the decade the project was stopped due to fraud, and financial panic. John Tipton (1786-1839) served in the army under William Henry Harrison and rose through the ranks to become a brigadier general. When Indiana became a state he served in the state legislatrue and in 1831 was elected to the Senate. He served one term and retired...