Recollections of a Quartermaster 1911.

  1. Resources
  2. View Resource

ArchivalResource

Recollections of a Quartermaster 1911.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/657892502

Memoirs of William G. LeDuc finished in February 1911. The narrative covers the childhood and youth in Ohio and Northern Mississippi, Kenyon College, travels in Kentucky, Tennessee, Boston (where he attended the trial of John W. Webster); his life in Minnesota, Civil War experience, and post-war career up through end of 1910, including his business interests in California and Mexico and connections with the Banning Company. The memoir ends with an account of LeDuc's spiritualist experiences.

IX, 402 pages 28 cm., typescript, bound volume.

Huntington Library, Art Collections & Botanical Gardens

Information

SNAC Resource ID: 7949888

Related Entities

There are 7 Entities related to this resource.

United States. Department of Agriculture

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6p66cd9 (corporateBody)

The United States Department of Agriculture was established in 1862 by President Abraham Lincoln and was elevated to a Cabinet level organization by President Grover Cleveland in 1889. The Department of Agriculture assists farmers and producers of food as well as creating policies and programs related to food distribution and nutrition information. The United States Department of Agriculture controls a number of regional offices through out the continential United States and its territories....

United States. Army. Corps, XI

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w68098nj (corporateBody)

Banning Company.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6x41zb1 (corporateBody)

Le Duc, William Gates, 1823-1917

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6np41h8 (person)

William Gates LeDuc (1823-1917) was born in Wilksevill, Gallia County, Ohio. In 1848, he graduated from Kenyon College and was admitted to the bar in 1849. In the early 1850s, he was engaged in the book trade, an occupation that took him to Kentucky, Tennessee, and Minnesota where he decided to settle. He lived first in St. Paul and in 1856 moved to Hastings, Minn. LeDuc promoted immigration to Minnesota, prepared and obtained the first charter for a railroad in the territory, organized the Waba...

Kenyon college

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6187k11 (corporateBody)

National Bank (Fayetteville, N.C.)

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6bs5ssk (corporateBody)

Webster, John White, 1793-1850

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6nk3qk1 (person)

Harvard professor; murderer of Dr. Parkman. From the description of Autograph letter signed : Cambridge, to the Rev. John Pierpont, 1824 May 8. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270586850 Murderer of Dr. George Parkman. From the description of Letter : to William Hickling Prescott, 1850 Aug. 29. (Boston Athenaeum). WorldCat record id: 41415981 Professor of chemistry at Harvard University. From the description of Letter, 1845, Sept. 24 : Cambridg...