Andrew Armstrong Purman letters received, and legal documents, 1853-1900.

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Andrew Armstrong Purman letters received, and legal documents, 1853-1900.

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The collection consists of letters received and related papers (telegrams, legal documents, coal map, slip bill) kept by attorney and state senator Andrew Armstrong Purman. The 1853-1869 letters document Purman's legal practice largely comprising small-scale civil lawsuits and estate affairs of Greene County, Pa., residents and their heirs. Between 1870 and 1872 most of Purman's incoming correspondence concerns his work and influence in the Pennsylvania legislature, including requests for personal and legislative favors. Constituents wrote to him about their concerns, including prohibition, fair pay for Pittsburgh coal miners, protection of his district's fisheries, and the construction of a new Pennsylvania Railroad branch, possibly through the Ligonier Valley, and related transportation issues. As Finance Committee chairman, Purman received letters about education funding, care for the destitute, and requests for personal favors.

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Pennsylvania. General Assembly. Senate

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Pennsylvania Railroad

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The Pennsylvania Railroad Company was the largest railroad in the United States in terms of corporate assets and traffic from the last quarter of the nineteenth century until the decline of the northeast's and midwest's dominance of manufacturing, caused by the evolution of the interstate highway system and the advancements in air transportation. Originally created by Philadelphia merchants in 1846, it sought to build a trunk route from Philadelphia to Pittsburgh via the Allegheny Mountains to c...

Purman, Andrew A. (Andrew Armstrong), 1823-1903

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Andrew Armstrong Purman was a lawyer, District Attorney, Democratic Party activist, and State Senator of Waynesburg, Greene County, Pennsylvania. He became Chairman of the Pennsylvania Senate Finance Committee in 1871. From the description of Andrew Armstrong Purman letters received, and legal documents, 1853-1900. (Pennsylvania State University Libraries). WorldCat record id: 658044645 ...