Papers, 1809-1882 (bulk 1850-1865).

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Papers, 1809-1882 (bulk 1850-1865).

Chiefly personal and business correspondence, memoranda, reports, speeches, charts, photographs, and other papers, reflecting Schenck's career and family life, including his activities as lawyer and member of Ohio House of Representatives, U.S. House of Representatives, U.S. minister to Brazil (1851-1853), Union Army officer during the Civil War, member of the court of commissioners for Alabama claims, signer for the U.S., of the Treaty of Washington (1871), and minister to Great Britain (1871-1876).

1 file folder.22 microfilm reels : positive.

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Schenck, Lilly

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Chaffee, A. H.

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Coxe, Ferdinand

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Rosecrans, William S. (William Starke), 1819-1898

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