Lucas F. Smith diaries and notebooks, 1863-1880.

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Lucas F. Smith diaries and notebooks, 1863-1880.

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Nine pocket diaries from the years 1867, 1868, 1871-1872, 1874-1875, 1877-1878, and 1880, containing brief holograph entries documenting Smith's activities as a law student at the University of Michigan; his early involvement in organizing clubs for young Democratics; his travels in the West, to the Northeast, and to his family home in Indiana, by steamer, stagecoach, and train; his work as a district and a criminal attorney in Texas; and his social and religious activities. Individuals mentioned in Smith's diaries include friends J. A. Cheneworth, John R. Higdon and Joseph W. Waddell, and his brothers Joseph and Zachary of Bonham, Texas; Thomas J. Brown and J. W. Throckmorton, Smith's friends and law partners in Sherman, Texas; and James Preston, whom Smith defended in his Dallas, Texas murder trial. The daily entries in the diaries are followed by names and addresses of acquaintances, personal financial accounts, and miscellaneous notes. A printed pocket diary for 1863 contains Smith's notes on legal terms, a list of clothing received from the government between 1863 and 1865, and miscellaneous notes and financial records; a pocket notebook dated 1870 Dec 26 contains copies in Smith's hand of forms of indictment for various crimes. A printed voter registration certificate completed in manuscript for Smith dated 1873 August 5, West Sherman, Grayson County, Texas, and a letter of introduction dated 1874 Jun 10, were removed from the 1875 diary and placed in a separate folder. Publishers of the printed diaries include Denton & Wood (Pocket Diary for 1863) and the Erie Publishing Company (Improved Diary...by M. N. Lovell.)

0.40 linear ft. (1 box)

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SNAC Resource ID: 8281556

Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library

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University of Michigan. Department of Law

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Waddell, Joseph J.

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Preston, James, 1964-

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Texas. District Court (11th Judicial District)

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Cheneworth, J. A.

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Smith, Lucas F.

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Lucas F. Smith was born ca. 1840 in Wells County, Indiana. He apprenticed as a printer in 1859, and was a member of Company G of the 101st Indiana Volunteer Infantry between 1863 and 1865. After graduating from the University of Michigan Law Department in 1868, he travelled West to Missouri, Kansas, Tennessee, Arkansas, Louisiana, and Texas. In 1870 he was appointed district attorney for the 11th Judicial District at Bonham, Texas. Between 1873 and 1880, the date of the last diary, Smith practic...

Smith, Zachary, fl. 1870.

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Lovell, M. N.

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Throckmorton, J. W. (James Webb), 1825-1894

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J. W. Throckmortion was elected governor of Texas in 1866, but was removed from office in 1867 by General Philip Sheridan. He also served as a US Congressman from 1870 to 1874. From the description of Throckmorton, J. W., letters, 1867-1869. (University of Texas Libraries). WorldCat record id: 85376791 U.S. Rep. from Texas. From the description of Autograph letter signed : Washington, to Charles Devens, 1879 Feb. 22. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270572478 ...

Smith, Joseph William, 1870-1935

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Brown, Thomas J., 1960-....

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Democratic Party (U.S.)

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Denton & Wood

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