Horace Austin and family papers, 1857-1953.

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Horace Austin and family papers, 1857-1953.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/86096154

Correspondence, photographs, reports, clippings, appointments, and financial and legal papers (mainly 1870-1879) concerning Austin, his daughters Helen and Leonora, and his son Herbert. There is data on Austin's Minnesota governorship (1870-1874), his activities as third auditor in the U.S. Treasury Dept. (1870s), state and national politics, corruption in the administration of President Ulysses S. Grant, the Hayes-Tilden presidential election contest (1876), civil service reform, Austin's Minnesota real estate investments, women's suffrage, recollections (February-March, 1898) of Henry H. Sibley's 1863 expedition against the Dakota Indians, family activities, and Herbert's positions as purchasing agent for the city of St. Paul (1916, 1934) and for the state of Minnesota (1925, 1931). Correspondents include Edwin W. Dike, Loren Fletcher, Mark D. Flower, Andrew R. McGill, and John Sherman. Austin was a Republican.

0.5 cu. ft. (1 box, 12 oversize items, and 1 oversize plus item)

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