Papers, 1805-1925.

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Papers, 1805-1925.

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Correspondence, newspapers, drawings, notebooks, depositions, records of the town of Peterborough, and other papers, reflecting Steele's career. Subjects include his activities as manager of the Union Manufacturing Company, a textile manufacturer, in West Peterborough; textile machinery, particularly the spinning jenny; views on the origins of the Civil War, as a southerner in the north; local and state politics and duties as governor of New Hampshire (1844-1845); appointment by Franklin Pierce to serve on a committee investigating the management of the U.S. Armory at Springfield, Mass.; membership in Peterborough Historical Society and Peterborough Lyceum; agriculture; the Know Nothing Movement (American Party); church and state issues; temperance; and religion in the public schools. Correspondents and other persons represented include Jonas Barber, Augustus C. Blodgett, Jabez Carley, Andrew Jackson, Benjamin Mitchell, Abraham Perkins Morrison, Albert Smith Scott, John Henry Steele, Henry Steele, James B. Todd, James Walker, and James Wilson.

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