George Fred Williams papers, 1869-1898.

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George Fred Williams papers, 1869-1898.

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Dedham, Massachusetts schoolteacher, reporter, lawyer and congressman. Six boxes of correspondence and sixteen boxes of newspaper clippings and miscellaneous printed matter relating to Williams' political career as state representative, congressman and Democratic gubernatorial candidate. Subjects discussed or described include: Grover Cleveland, James G. Blaine and the 1884 presidential campaign, the Massachusetts Committee of One Hundred, free coinage of silver, tariff and civil service reform, investigation of Boston's West End Railway Company, and the 1891 speakership contest between Charles F. Crisp and Roger Q. Mills in the House of Representatives. Among the correspondents are: Edward Atkinson, Samuel Bowles, Charles R. Codman, Charles P. Greenough, Charles S. Hamlin, Nathan Matthews, Josiah Quincy, Carl Schurz, Moorfield Storey, Winslow Warren and Henry M. Whitney.

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