Creator:
Keifer, Joseph Warren, 1836-1932.
Inclusive Dates:
1858- 1883
Abstract:
U.S. Army officer (U.S. Civil War, Spanish-American War) and legislator (U.S. House of Representatives from Ohio, 1877-1885, 1905-1911). Collection contains correspondence, primarily from 1881-1883, when Keifer was Speaker of the House of Representatives, and two items of miscellany. Incoming letters, mostly from military and political figures, of Susan B. Anthony, James G. Blaine, William Jennings Bryan, Carrie Chapman Catt, James A. Garfield, Marcus A. Hanna, Warren G. Harding, Rutherford B. Hayes, Nicholas Longworth, Whitelaw Reid, Theodore Roosevelt, Franklin D. Roosevelt, John Sherman, William Tecumseh Sherman, William Howard Taft, Leonard Wood, and others.
Type of Material:
Correspondence.
Subject:
United States -- Politics and government, 1865-1933.
Legislators.
Soldiers.
Military history
Politics, government and public administration
Civil War (U.S.)
Legislators -- United States.
Creator:
Smith, Gerrit, 1797-1874.
Inclusive Dates:
1762- 1962
Abstract:
Papers of the social reformer and philanthropist from Peterboro, New York. Business, family and general correspondence; business and land records; writings; and maps. Notable correspondents include Susan B.
Anthony, John Jacob Astor, Henry Ward Beecher, Antoinette Blackwell, Caleb Calkins, Lydia Maria Child, Cassius Clay,
Alfred Conkling, Roscoe Conkling, Charles A. Dana, Paulina W. Davis, Edward C. Delavan, Frederick
Douglass, Albert G. Finney, Sarah Grimke, Elizabeth Cady and Henry B. Stanton,
Louis Tappan, Sojourner Truth, and Theodore Weld.
Type of Material:
Agreements.
Bank statements.
Bonds (negotiable instruments)
Broadsides (notices)
Check stubs.
Correspondence.
Deeds.
Estate records.
Indentures.
Judicial records.
Land registers.
Land surveys.
Maps (documents)
Pamphlets.
Sermons.
Summonses.
Warrant books.
Wills.
Subject:
Madison County (N.Y.) -- History.
New York (State) -- History -- 1775-1865.
Peterboro (N.Y.) -- History.
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865.
Abolitionists.
Social reformers.
Business and Industry
New York State
Politics, government and public administration
Activism and social reform
Abolitionists -- United States.
Antislavery movements -- United States.
Social reformers -- United States.
Temperance.
Women -- Suffrage -- United States.
Creator:
Smith, Gerrit, 1797-1874.
Inclusive Dates:
1793- 1906
Abstract:
Circulars, speeches, sermons, and tracts which deal with such topics as abolition, suffrage, temperance, transportation, and the postal system.
Type of Material:
Broadsides (notices)
Pamphlets.
Subject:
Madison County (N.Y.) -- History.
New York (State) -- History -- 1775-1865.
Peterboro (N.Y.) -- History.
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865.
Abolitionists.
Social reformers.
Business and Industry
New York State
Politics, government and public administration
Activism and social reform
Abolitionists -- United States.
Antislavery movements -- United States.
Social reformers -- United States.
Temperance.
Women -- Suffrage -- United States.