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William E. Chandler* (1835-1917), Papers of, 1863-1917 (66/167). William Eaton Chandler*: U.S. Assistant Treasury Secretary, 1865-1867; U.S. Navy Secretary, 1882-1885; U.S. Senate, Republican, New Hampshire, 1887-1901; Chair, Spanish Treaty Claims Commission, 1901-1908. “Principally bound volumes of correspondence” and other papers “documenting Chandler's work in government. Includes material reflecting Chandler's prominence in the Republican Party and his roles in the presidential campaigns of 1868, 1872, and 1880 and in the disputed election of 1876 between Rutherford B. Hayes and Samuel J. Tilden. Correspondents include Chester Alan Arthur, James Gillespie Blaine, Montgomery Blair, George S. Boutwell, Jay Cooke, Walter Quintin Gresham, William Pitt Kellogg, Philander C. Knox, William McKinley, William Orton, Orville Hitchcock Platt, Thomas Collier Platt, and Lew Wallace.” W.A. Croffut* (1835-1915), Papers of, 1774-1933, bulk: 1880-1915 (8/31). William Augustus Croffut*: Founder, secretary, 1899, Anti-Imperialist League; campaigned, 1900, for William Jennings Bryan. “Correspondence pertaining to Croffut's publications, his activities with the Anti-Imperialist League, and the presidential campaign of 1900; drafts and copies of Croffut's articles, books, and other works; papers pertaining to the Anti-Imperialist League, including minutes, drafts of articles advocating the cause of the Philippines and of the Boers in South Africa, pamphlets, and newspaper articles; scrapbooks containing newspaper columns and an account of the Columbian Exposition of 1893; material on Ethan Allen Hitchcock, including a copy of his memoir which was used for the book, Fifty Years in Field and Camp, edited, 1909, by Croffut, copies of correspondence with Mrs. Nathaniel Hawthorne and material on George Washington, and letters of John Quincy Adams and Jefferson Davis; journals of Dr. Henry A. Robbins containing accounts of his travels in Europe during the 1870's and relating information concerning medicap practices in Europe; and papers, mostly after 1915, of his wife, Bessie Croffut. Correspondents include George S. Boutwell, William J. Bryan, Edward Corser, Samuel Gompers, John W. Hayes, Joseph B. Henderson, Patrick O'Farrell, Carl Schurz, Bertrand A. Shadwell, Charles A. Towne, George W. Van Siclen, and Erving Winslow.” Letters, 1896-1920 (2 boxes); official papers, Anti-Imperialist League (1 box). Thomas Ewing Family Papers, 1757-1941, bulk: 1815-1896 (20/314). Thomas Ewing* (1789-1871): Ohio University, 1816; Ohio Bar, 1816; U.S. Senate, 1831-47, Anti-Jacksonian, Ohio, and 1850-51, Whig; Secretary of Treasury, 1841; Secretary of Interior, 1849-50; thereafter, practiced law, Lancaster OH; father of Union Brigadier Generals Thomas, Hugh, and Charles Ewing, father-in-law of General William Tecumseh Sherman, and grandfather of Thomas Ewing (1862-1942), attorney, U.S. Commissioner of Patents, author. “Correspondence, diaries, journals, writings, speeches, biographical and genealogical material, military papers, financial and legal papers, scrapbooks, printed materials, maps, photographs, and other papers concerning American political, economic, and social life. Subjects include westward expansion and frontier life, the disposal of public lands and land speculation, law and legal practice in Ohio, Ohio and national Whig politics, anti-Jacksonianism, the Bank of the United States, the organization of the U.S. Dept. of the Interior, the California gold rush, the rise of the Republican Party, sectionalism, Kansas statehood, the Washington Peace Convention (Conference Convention) of 1861, the Civil War, the assassination of Abraham Lincoln, the impeachment of Andrew Johnson, the currency question and Greenback movement, the Ohio centennial, and the development and administration of patent law in the U.S. from 1913 to 1917. Correspondents include Philemon Beecher, Nicholas Biddle, James Gillespie Blaine, Orville Hickman Browning, Henry Clay, Thomas Corwin, John J. Crittenden, Charles B. Goddard, Horace Greeley, William Henry Harrison, Britton Armstrong Hill, Hocking H. Hunter, Reverdy Johnson, Abbott Lawrence, Abraham Lincoln, John McLean, Richard Olney, Thomas Collier Platt, Samuel C. Pomeroy, William S. Rosecrans, William Henry Seward, John Sherman, William T. Sherman, Henry Stanbery, Noah Haynes Swayne, Allen Granbery Thurman, John Tyler, Samuel Finley Vinton, and Daniel Webster.” Diaries, 1896-1913 (2 boxes); letters, 1896-1920 (18 boxes). Thomas Ewing* (1789-1871), Papers of, 1815-72, microfilm (6 reels). Originals held by University of Notre Dame, South Bend IN. “Family and general correspondence, letterbooks, dockets and account books, speeches, financial papers, legal papers, and clippings.” Charles Ewing Family Papers, 1769-1950 (6/31). Charles Ewing* (1835-1883): Son of Thomas Ewing (1789-1871); University of Virginia; practiced law, 1860-61, St, Louis MO; youngest of three brothers, who were at times under the command of their sister Eleanor’s husband, Union General William Tecumseh Sherman, and who became Brigadier Generals in the Union Army; practiced law, 1867-1883, Washington DC; also, after 1869, Catholic Commissioner, Washington DC, for Indian Missions, Catholic Indian Bureau; brother of: Thomas Ewing* (1829-96): Brown University, 1854; Ohio Bar, 1855; Chief Justice, 1861-62, Kansas Supreme Court; practiced law, 1865-71, Washington DC and 1881-96, New York City; U.S. Congress, 1877-81, Democrat, Ohio. Thomas Ewing* (1829-96), Papers of, 1856-1908, microfilm (2 reels). Originals held by Kansas State Historical Society, Topeka. His brother, Hugh Boyle Ewing* (1826-1905): attended U.S. Military Academy; practiced law, 1854-56, St. Louis MO; U.S. Minister, 1866-1870, Holland; practiced law briefly, Washington DC; thereafter a writer, Lancaster OH. “Correspondence, diaries, biographical material, genealogies, legal and business papers, scrapbooks, photographs, memorabilia, and other papers. Some papers concern the Civil War and its aftermath, especially the military circle formed by the brothers, Thomas, Hugh, and Charles Ewing, and their brothers-in-law, General Sherman and Colonel Clement F. Steele. The legal papers concern courts-martial and other cases in which the government was involved; Mexican claims, land grants, Indian affairs, and patent rights. Includes looseleaf volumes of family history and genealogy, illustrated with letters, family trees, clippings, and portraits. Persons represented include Charles Ewing's father, Thomas Ewing; his brother, Philemon Ewing; his sisters, Eleanor Boyle Ewing Sherman and Maria Theresa Ewing Steele; and his wife, Virginia Larwill Miller; and members of the Larwill, Miller, and Stibbs families.” Letters, 1896-1920 (6 boxes). William Torrey Harris* (1835-1909), Papers of, 1866-1908. Studied Yale; teacher and Superintendent of Schools, 1857-80 and introduced, 1873, public kindergarten, St. Louis MO; U.S. Commissioner of Education, 1889-1906. Harris influenced Melville Dewey’s efforts to classify knowledge in libraries as well as American educators’ and philosophers’ study of Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel’s idealism while founding, 1866, St. Louis Philosophical Society and, 1867, the Journal of Speculative Philosophy, which he edited until 1893; lectured, 1879-88, at Bronson Alcott’s Concord MA School of Philosophy, mainly on Hegel; co-author: A. Bronson Alcott: His Life and Philosophy (1893), and many others. Mainly drafts and printed copies, some 890 numbered MSS. in all: “Harris' articles, addresses, lectures, and reports, with notes and printed material used in their preparation, and the MSS. of his books.” McCook Family Papers, 1809-1966, bulk: 1850-1900. Anson George McCook* (1835-1917): Brother of Union Army Brigadier General Edward M. McCook; first cousin of Brevet Brigadier General Edwin S. McCook. Captain to Brevet Brigadeer General of Volunteers, 1861-65; Ohio Bar, 1866; U. S. Assessor of Internal Revenue, 1865-1873, Steubenville OH; moved to New York City and founded Law Journal; President, New York Law Publishing Company; U.S. Congress, 1877-1883, Republican, New York. “Correspondence, scrapbooks, journals, diaries, photographs, memorabilia, printed materials, and other papers relating to the Ohio family of "Fighting McCooks" which became prominent through the service of fifteen of its sons in the Civil War. The McCooks were active in legal, military, and political affairs. The larger part of the collection concerns the military and political career of Anson G. McCook. Correspondents include Cornelius Newton Bliss, Grover Cleveland, Samuel Langhorne Clemens, Robley D. Evans, Hamilton Fish, James A. Garfield, Ulysses S. Grant, Marcus Alonzo Hanna, Benjamin Harrison, Rutherford Birchard Hayes, William McKinley, Thomas Nelson Page, Theodore Roosevelt, Elihu Root, William T. Sherman, and Edwin McMasters Stanton.” Letters, 1896-20 (3 boxes); scrapbooks, 1896-1920 (5 boxes). William Conant Church* (1836-1917), Papers of, 1862-1924 (1/2). Journalist, editor; co-founder and editor, 1863-1917, Army and Navy Journal; co-founder, 1882, and director, National Rifle Association. “Correspondence pertaining to Church's business and professional matters as editor of the Atlantic Monthly, Galaxy, Journal of the Armed Forces, and New York Sun. Includes biographical writings in English and Swedish on the Swedish American engineer and inventor, John Ericsson. Correspondents include William W. Belknap, William C. Browness, William E. Chandler, Bradley A. Fiske, William Babcock Hazen, Stephen Bleecker Luce, Nelson Appleton Miles, Philip Henry Sheridan, William T. Sherman, Emory Upton, and Leonard Wood.” John Watson Foster* (1836-1917), Papers of, 1872-1917, bulk: 1872-1905. University of Indiana, 1855; Harvard Law; editor, Evansville IN Daily Journal; U.S. Secretary of State, 1892-93; Special Mission, 1897, to Great Britain, Russia; Anglo-Canadian commission, 1898; U.S. Alaskan Boundary Tribunal, 1903; represented China, The Hague Conference, 1907; helped found, 1906, American Society of International Law and, 1910, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. “Chiefly letters received, 1872-1905, relating to Indiana politics, Republican Party, Alaska-Canadian boundary dispute, sealing rights in the Bering Sea, and diplomatic relations with Mexico, Russia, Spain, and China. Correspondents include James G. Blaine, Schuyler Colfax, William M. Evarts, Walter Q. Gresham, Benjamin Harrison, John Hay, Richard Olney, Whitelaw Reid, and Theodore Roosevelt.” Lyman J. Gage* (1836-1927), Papers of, 1897-1906 (5/5). Lyman Judson Gage*: Defended, 1870s, the gold standard and helped organize the “Honest Money League of Chicago,” and “. . . of the North West”; Vice-President, 1891-96, First National Bank of Chicago IL; U.S. Secretary of the Treasury, 1897-1902; President, 1902-06, U.S. Trust Company of New York. “Correspondence documenting Gage's service . . . in the McKinley and Theodore Roosevelt administrations and subsequently” in banking. “In addition to material on fiscal matters, including the financing of the war with Spain, there are files of private letters. Correspondents include Russell A. Alger, George B. Cortelyou, Ralph M. Easley, Mark Hanna, Orville Peckham, James B. Pond, Elihu Root, Charles Emory Scott, and others.” Maria Kraus-Boelté* (1836-1918), Papers of, 1904-1913 (4/4). Wife of John Kraus* (d. 1896): Born Germany, arrived United States, 1851; U.S. Bureau of Education, 1873. Maria Boelté*: Born Germany, disciple of Fredreich Wilhelm August Froebel (1782-1852), but tutored by his widow; taught at Froebel-influenced schools in London, England, Germany, and after 1872, United States; operated with her husband a demonstration kindergarten, New York City, for training teachers and wrote, The Kindergarten Guide: An Illustrated Hand-Book Designed for the Self-Instruction of Kindergarten [Teachers], Mothers, and Nurses (2 v., 1877); President, 1899-1900, Kindergarten Department, National Education Association; taught summer courses for kindergarten teachers, 1903, 1904, 1907, New York University School of Education. “Correspondence, notes, and original drawings of Madame Kraus-Boelté, relating to kindergarten education, as well as letters and notes by some of her students.” Notes on the kindergarten (3 v.); drawings (1 v.) David J. Brewer* (1837-1910), Papers of, 1865-1906. David Josiah Brewer*: Associate Justice, 1889-1910, U.S. Supreme Court. “Chiefly pamphlets and periodicals containing speeches and writings of Justice Brewer. Also included are typescripts of speeches, a letter, and some photographs (64 items).” Pamphlets and periodicals, 1896-1910, containing speeches and articles by Brewer (4 boxes). Grover Cleveland* (1837-1908), Papers of 1859-1945, bulk: 1885-1908. Stephen Grover Cleveland*: Mayor, 1881, Buffalo NY; Governor of New York, 1883-84; President of the United States, 1885-89 and 1893-97. “Correspondence, diaries, 1898-1905, messages, speeches, writings, and other papers. Most of the collection relates to Cleveland's first presidential administration, 1885-1889. Includes some papers of his wife, Frances Folsom*. Correspondents include John Peter Altgeld, Chester Alan Arthur, Norval B. Bacon, Thomas F. Bayard, August Belmont, Erastus Cornelius Benedict, Wilson Shannon Bissell, John T. Carey, John Griffin Carlisle, Joseph Hodges Choate, Alonzo B. Cornell, George William Curtis, L. Clarke Davis, Donald McDonald Dickinson, Sanford B. Dole, Robert Dosia, William Crowninshield Endicott, Robley D. Evans, John H. Finley, Melville Weston Fuller, Richard Watson Gilder, Walter Quintin Gresham, Charles Hamlin, Judson Harmon, Benjamin Harrison, Thomas Nelson Haskell, Robert P. Hayes, Abram S. Hewitt, David B. Hill, Joseph Jefferson, Robert Underwood Johnson, L. Q. C. Lamar, Daniel Scott Lamont, Fitzhugh Lee, Daniel Manning, Richard Olney, Alton B. Parker, Edward B. Pond, Terence Vincent Powderly, William Gorham Rice, William H. Rideing, Theodore Roosevelt, Horatio Seymour, Edward Morse Shepard, Hoke Smith, Francis L. Stetson, Oscar S. Straus, John DeWitt Warner, Henry Watterson, James B. Weaver, William C. Whitney, and William Lyne Wilson.” George Dewey* (1837-1917), Papers of, 1805-1949, bulk: 1885-1931. U.S. Naval Academy, 1858; Lieutenant Commander, 1865; Commodore, 1896 and Commander, 1898, Asiatic Squadron; defeated, 1898, Spanish fleet, Manila Bay, Philippines, and Real Admiral; Admiral of the Navy, 1899; President, 1899-17, General Board of the Navy; Commander-in Chief, winter maneuvers, 1902-03. “Correspondence, letterbooks, diaries, journal, military papers, financial papers, scrapbooks, and photographs” mainly related to his career, 1899-1917. “Also includes Dewey's letters to his second wife, Mildred McLean Hazen Dewey, her correspondence, financial records, and papers pertaining to her estate; correspondence between Dewey's parents, Julius Y. Dewey and Mary Perrin Dewey; letters from James A. Garfield and William T. Sherman to Mildred Dewey's first husband, William Babcock Hazen; and an account, 1904, of ‘Admiral Dewey and the Manila Campaign’ written by Commander Nathan Sargent, U.S.N. Correspondents include Charles J. Bonaparte, William E. Chandler, George B. Cortelyou, George Creel, Josephus Daniels, Grenville Mellen Dodge, John Hay, Robert Lansing, John Davis Long, A. T. Mahan, William H. Moody, Paul Morton, Truman Handy Newberry, Redfield Procter, Theodore Roosevelt, Elihu Root, and Oscar Fitzalan Williams. Mildred Dewey's correspondents include Frederick M. Bugher, Jonathan Daniels, George G. Dewey, Henry Cabot Lodge, John R. McLean, Elisabeth Ellicott Poe, and Alvin Untermyer.” Diaries, 1892-97, 1902-03, 1909 (1 box); letters, 1898-10 (46 boxes); letterbooks, 1897-1903 (3 boxes).” George Dewey* (1837-1917), Papers of, 1890-1943, 16 items. “Letter, 1890, of Dewey to the commanding officer, U.S.S. Pinta, Sitka, Alaska; letter, n.d., of Dewey to William Corcoran Hill; letter, 1898, of Charles A. Boutelle to Sally Phenix Hill with enclosed letter of Garret A. Hobart; historical account entitled “Admiral Dewey and the Manila Campaign,” compiled by Nathan Sargent, with a covering note, 1943, by George G. Dewey; and photographs.” T. H. and Edward Miner Gallaudet, Papers of, 1806-1958 (4/10). Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet* (1787-1851) and his youngest son: Edward Miner Gallaudet* (1837-1917), both helped found, 1816 and 1856 respectively, schools for the deaf. “T. H. Gallaudet's papers include correspondence, 1806-1851, diaries, 1810-1811, 1847-1850, poetry and composition books kept while he attended Yale, combined journal and letter book, 1815-1816, account book, 1840-1851, documents relating to the American School for the Deaf, Hartford, Conn., genealogical studies, memorabilia, and printed material Edward Miner Gallaudet's papers include correspondence, diaries, journals, memoirs, speeches, articles, and documents relating to Columbia Institution for the Deaf and Gallaudet College,” named for his father. “Also includes several Gallaudet family photographs and the papers of Maxine Tull Boatner, biographer of Edward Miner Gallaudet, namely, correspondence, printed matter, and page proof of her book, Voice of the Deaf: A Biography of Edward Miner Gallaudet (1959).” Edward: Diaries, 1896-1917 (2 boxes); memoir, 1857-1909, and letters, 1896-1917 (2 boxes). Hanna-McCormick Family Papers, 1792-1985, bulk: 1902-1944). Marcus Alonzo Hanna* or Mark Hanna* (1837-1904): Western Reserve University, Hudson OH; wholesale grocery, iron and coal, and other businesses, Cleveland OH; advisor to U. S. presidents; Chair, 1896, Republican National Committee; U.S. Senate, 1897-1904, Republican, Ohio; father of: Ruth Hanna McCormick* or Ruth Simms* (1880-1944): owned and operated a dairy and breeding farm, Byron IL; publisher, President, Rockford IL Consolidated Newspapers, Inc.; leader, 1913-20, women’s suffrage movement; Chair, Women’s Executive Committee and Associate Member, 1919-24, and Member, 1924-28, Republican National Committee; U.S. Congress, 1929-31, Republican, Illinois; wife of: Joseph Medill McCormick* or Medill McCormick* (1877-1925): Yale, 1900; reporter, editor, publisher, owner, 1900-25, Chicago Daily Tribune; war correspondent, 1901, Philippines; Vice Chair, 1912-14, National Campaign Committee, Progressive Party; Illinois legislature, 1913-17; U.S. Congress, 1917-19 and Senate, 1919-25, Republican, Illinois. “Correspondence, diary and notebook fragments, speeches, financial records, scrapbooks, printed matter, and other papers focusing chiefly on the political activities of Ruth Hanna McCormick Simms*. . . . Marcus Hanna's correspondence relates mainly to Ohio and national politics and also to his personal and business affairs. Includes copies of interviews, 1905-1906, about him conducted by James B. Morrow with Joseph Benson Foraker, Theodore Roosevelt, and members of Hanna's family. Medill McCormick's papers relate to Illinois and national politics. Also included are papers relating to the Chicago Tribune and its publishers, Joseph Medill and Robert Rutherford McCormick, grandfather and brother of Medill McCormick. Family papers include much correspondence between Ruth Hanna McCormick Simms and her daughter, Ruth McCormick Tankersley, known as Bazy. Mark Hanna's correspondents include his wife, Augusta Rhodes, and their daughter, Ruth Hanna McCormick Simms, and Benjamin Butterworth, J. C. Donaldson, Joseph Benson Foraker, Charles Foster, William McKinley, John Sherman, and John Wanamaker. Medill McCormick's correspondents include Albert Jeremiah Beveridge, Edward Jackson Brundage, Calvin Coolidge, Joseph M. Dixon, Warren G. Harding, Charles Evans Hughes, Henry Cabot Lodge, Frank O. Lowden, Theodore Roosevelt, and George Richard Walker.” Mark Hanna: letters, 1896-1910 (1 box); interviews, 1905-06 (1 box). Ruth Hanna McCormick*: letters, 1912-22 (1 box). Medill McCormick: letters, 1843-1920 (2 boxes); speeches, 1913-19 (1 box); scrapbook, 1897 (1 v.); miscellany, 1900-18 (1 box). Franklin MacVeagh* (1837-1934), Papers of, 1799-1933, bulk: 1909-1913. Yale, 1862, Columbia Law and New York Bar, 1864, practiced 1864-66; moved to Chicago IL, 1866 and founded wholesale grocery business; President, 1866-1909 and 1913-31, Franklin MacVeagh & Company; U.S. Treasury Secretrary, 1909-13. “Correspondence, family papers, subject files, business, legal, and financial papers, speeches, and miscellany relating primarily to MacVeagh's government service. Also includes materials pertaining to the MacVeagh (McVey) and Eames families, Chicago social and civic affairs, and to other business, personal, and political matters. Specific topics include U.S. Customs and Internal Revenue Services, political patronage, Bureau of Engraving and Printing, American Civic Association, National Civic Federation, Immigration Restriction League, National Civil Service Reform League, U.S. Commission on Economy and Efficiency, U.S. Tariff Board, and the election of 1896. Correspondents include Charles Francis Adams, Richard Ballinger, Rupert Blue, Henry S. Boutell, George Cortelyou, S. M. Cullom, J. M. Dickinson, Walter L. Fisher, John Hay, F. H. Hitchcock, Rollin A. Keyes, Philander C. Knox, Carl Lumholtz, Lee McClung, Eames MacVeagh, Lawrence O. Murray, Charles Nagel, Charles D. Norton, Whitelaw Reid, Eliza Scidmore, Henry Stimson, William Howard Taft, and George Wickersham.” General letters, 1896-1920 (6 boxes); special letters, arranged alphabetically (5 boxes); subject files (4 boxes). Directory: documents documents -> Concept stage documents -> Concept stage documents -> The great global switch-off documents -> Nonprofit grant application documents -> The Truth about the Rwandan Genocide documents -> Annual InStructional unit plan documents -> Chaos equipment included Download 0.75 Mb. Share with your friends:
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