Papers of Robert Whitehead [manuscript], 1830-1983.

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Papers of Robert Whitehead [manuscript], 1830-1983.

The papers consist of a diary, 1830, of Robert Whitehead's journey from Virginia to Kentucky along the New River; draft and typed copy of a letter, 1865 November 12, Whitehead to Horace Greeley, requesting space for a column on the Southern view of Reconstruction in the New York Tribune; speech, 1943 August 14, by James R. Caskie on the presentation of portraits of Whitehead and Stewart B. Whitehead to the Nelson County (Va.) Circuit Court, and a genealogical chart, 1983, of the ancestors of the donor.

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Greeley, Horace, 1811-1872

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Horace Greeley (February 3, 1811 – November 29, 1872) was an American newspaper editor and publisher who was the founder and editor of the New-York Tribune, among the great newspapers of its time. Long active in politics, he served briefly as a congressman from New York, and was the unsuccessful candidate of the new Liberal Republican party in the 1872 presidential election against incumbent President Ulysses S. Grant, who won by a landslide. Greeley was born to a poor family in Amherst, New ...

Nelson County (Va.). Circuit Courts.

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Caskie, James R.

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Whitehead family.

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Whitehead, Robert, 1815-1898

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