Stevenson family papers, 1902-1909.

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Stevenson family papers, 1902-1909.

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Tax receipts, correspondence, rental agreements, receipted bills, financial statements, and an account book concerning the management of 1700 acres of Vermiliion and Newton County, Indiana farms owned by W. O. Davis and Helen D. Stevenson, managed by Lewis G. Stevenson and others. Correspondence includes letters from tenants both to landlord and agent showing the problems of the tenant-landlord relationship; letters from Chicago commission merchants containing data on railroad rates, prices of grain and hogs on the Chicago market; letter and pamphlet from the Northern Iowa Land Co., including a list of farms for rent and rental rates; letter concerning assessment for construction of Lawler Ditch, and blueprint for its construction, in Newton County, Indiana.

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Cornell University Library

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Stevenson, Adlai E. (Adlai Ewing), 1835-1914

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Adlai Ewing Stevenson (October 23, 1835 – June 14, 1914) served as the 23rd vice president of the United States from 1893 to 1897. Previously, he served as a representative from Illinois in the late 1870s and early 1880s. After his subsequent appointment as assistant postmaster general of the United States during Grover Cleveland's first administration (1885–89), he fired many Republican postal workers and replaced them with Southern Democrats. This earned him the enmity of the Republican-contro...

Stevenson, Lewis G.

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Lawler Ditch.

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Stevenson family.

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Lewis G. Stevenson was the son of Adlai Ewing Stevenson, vice-president of the United States during Cleveland's second administration; Helen Davis, wife of Lewis G. Stevenson, was the daughter of W. O. Davis, proprietor of the Pantagraph, Bloomington, Illinois. From the description of Stevenson family papers, 1902-1909. (Cornell University Library). WorldCat record id: 63937553 ...

Stevenson, Helen D.

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Davis, W. O.

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Northern Iowa Land Co.

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