Papers, 1835-1873.

Webster, Daniel, 1782-1852

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Daniel Webster (January 18, 1782 – October 24, 1852) was an American lawyer and statesman who represented New Hampshire and Massachusetts in the U.S. Congress and served as the U.S. Secretary of State under Presidents William Henry Harrison, John Tyler, and Millard Fillmore. As one of the most prominent American lawyers of the 19th century, he argued over 200 cases before the U.S. Supreme Court between 1814 and his death in 1852. During his life, he was a member of the Federalist Party, the Nati...

Shewood, M.E.W. (Mary Elizabeth Wilson), 1826-1903

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United States. Surveyor General

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Federal land surveys in Illinois were authorized by Congressional act (March 26, 1804), when the U. S. Surveyor General was given jurisdiction over all public land north of the Ohio and east of the Mississippi Rivers. Surveys began in the western Vincennes Tract (1804) and southern Illinois (1806), then proceeded northward; covering all but most northern Illinois by 1831. When the Illinois surveys began, the Surveyor General was an independent officer under the President's direct su...

United States. Commission for Ascertaining and Settling Private Land Claims in California

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Ewing, Thomas, 1789-1871

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Lawyer, U.S. senator from Ohio, U.S. secretary of the treasury, and of the interior. From the description of Thomas Ewing papers, 1815-1872. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 70981690 U.S. cabinet officer and senator from Ohio. Other family members represented include his sons, Thomas (1829-1896), U.S. Army officer and congressman from Ohio, and Hugh (1826-1905), U.S. minister to Holland; his daughter and son-in-law, Ellen Ewing Sherman (1824-1888) and William T. Sherman (1820-...

Wilson family.

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Wilson, James Henry, 1837-1892

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Fiske, Annie F. Wilson, 1832-

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Goodwin, Ichabod, 1794-1882

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Tuck, Amos, 1810-1879

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Taintor, Charlotte J. Wilson, 1835-1901

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Cragin, Aaron H. (Aaron Harrison), 1821-1898

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U.S. representative from New Hampshire and lawyer. From the description of Letters, 1885. (Portsmouth Athenaeum Library & Museum). WorldCat record id: 70926239 U.S. senator and representative from New Hampshire. From the description of Aaron Harrison Cragin correspondence, 1855-1873. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 79450002 ...

Wilson, James, 1797-1881

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Businessman, of Keene, N.H., and San Francisco, Calif.; U.S. Representative from New Hampshire. From the description of Papers, 1835-1873. (New Hampshire Historical Society Library). WorldCat record id: 70963931 ...

Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865

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Abraham Lincoln (born February 12, 1809, Sinking Spring Farm near Hodgenville, Kentucky-died April 15, 1865, Washington, D.C.) was the sixteenth President of the United States from 1861 until his death by assassination. He was the son of a Kentucky frontiersman, Thomas Lincoln, and Nancy Hanks. In 1816, Lincoln moved to Pigeon Creek, Indiana, where he worked on his family's farm. Following his mother's death two years later, he continued working on farms until moving with his father to New Sa...