Martin I. Townsend correspondence, 1876 December 13.

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Martin I. Townsend correspondence, 1876 December 13.

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ALS written by Townsend to his grandson mentioning the presidential election of 1876 and a walk through Washington, D.C., with Rutherford Birchard Hayes.

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Townsend, Martin I. (Martin Ingham), 1810-1903

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Lawyer and U.S. representative from New York. From the description of Martin I. Townsend correspondence, 1876 December 13. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 70980639 ...

Hayes, Rutherford Birchard, 1822-1893

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Rutherford B. Hayes was born in Delaware, Ohio, in 1822 and earned degrees from Kenyon College and Harvard Law School before starting a career as a lawyer in Cincinnati. Hayes served as a major general in the Ohio Volunteer Infantry during the Civil War and was elected to the U.S. Congress in 1864. Hayes then was elected Governor of Ohio and later served one term as President of the United States (1877-1881) before retiring to his home in Fremont, Ohio, where he died in 1893.President of the Uni...