Letters, 1865-1866, 1899.

Chase, Salmon P. (Salmon Portland), 1808-1873

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Lawyer. From the description of Letter, 1845 March 4, Cincinnati, [Ohio], to Robert F. Paine, Columbus, O[hio]. (University of Toledo). WorldCat record id: 13541605 Salmon P. Chase served as the Secretary of the Treasury from 1861 to 1864. He oversaw the creation of the Bureau of Internal Revenue (1862) and implemented the introduction of the income tax and the national currency. From the description of Letter press book of the Secretary of the Treasury. 1863, Ju...

Welles, Gideon, 1802-1878

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A native of Glastonbury, Conn., Gideon Welles began his career as a lawyer but took up journalism as a profession, founding the Hartford Times, which he also edited, in 1826. Active in the Democratic Party in Connecticut, he served in the Connecticut state legislature and in several state offices. He later shifted his allegiance to the Republican Party due to his strong anti-slavery views and founded the Hartford Evening Press, a zealously Republican newspaper. President Abraham Lincoln appointe...

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...

Emancipation Proclamation.

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Carpenter, F.B. (Francis Bicknell), 1830-1900

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Artist, best known for painting of Abraham Lincoln reading the Emancipation Proclamation to his cabinet. Also author of Six Months in the White House with Lincoln. From the description of Letter, February 5, 1867. (Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library). WorldCat record id: 86077030 From the description of Letters, 1865-1866, 1899. (Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library). WorldCat record id: 86077037 Artist. From the description of F.B. Carpenter correspon...

Stoddard, William Osborn, 1835-1925

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Journalist, worked for the Central Illinois Gazette, 1857-1859, in Champaign, then secretary to President Abraham Lincoln in Washington, D.C. From the description of Papers, 1861-1924. (Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library). WorldCat record id: 55662320 Author, journalist, secretary to President Lincoln. From the description of Letters of William O. Stoddard, 1862, 1896, 1915. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 53437757 Journalist for the Cent...

Stanton, Edwin L. (Edwin Lamson), 1842-1877

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Edwin L. Stanton was the son of Edwin McMasters Stanton, Secretary of War under Presidents Abraham Lincoln and Andrew Johnson. From the description of Edwin L. Stanton papers, 1866-1875. (Louisiana State University). WorldCat record id: 243664621 ...