Creator:
Galloway, Leon J.
Inclusive Dates:
1711- 1962
Abstract:
Collection created by Leon Galloway of
Hicksville, New York, presumably based on his personal interests. Correspondence of military
members of the Confederate States of America and Civil War currency. Contracts, land
surveys, photo albums, and books about the Hicksite Quakers. Correspondence of the Saunders
family.
Type of Material:
Photographs.
Photograph albums.
Paper money.
Autograph albums.
Correspondence.
Postage stamps.
Contracts.
Land surveys.
Marriage certificates.
Wills.
Manuscripts (documents)
War bonds.
Engravings (prints)
Subject:
United States -- Church history -- 19th century.
Lincoln's Inn Fields (London, England)
Hicksville (N.Y.)
Oyster Bay (N.Y.)
Jericho (Nassau County, N.Y.)
Westbury (Nassau County, N.Y.)
Religion and philosophy
Civil War (U.S.)
Hicksites -- United States -- History.
Confederate States of America.
Society of Friends.
Quakers.
Creator:
Sherman, John, 1823-1900.
Inclusive Dates:
1852- 1898
Abstract:
Papers of the American statesman. Sherman was a U.S. Congressional representative from Ohio, 1855-61; U.S. Senator, 1861-77; U.S. Secretary of the Treasury, 1877-81; U.S. Senator, 1881-97; and U.S. Secretary of State, 1897-98. Cf. Dictionary of national biography. Letters on fiscal policy, political issues, appointments, and the Republican Party, written to Anson Burlingame, Hamilton Fish, Ulysses S. Grant, and others.
Type of Material:
Correspondence.
Subject:
Legislators.
Politicians.
Statesmen.
Politics, government and public administration
Politicians -- United States.
United States -- History -- 1865-1898.
United States -- Officials and employees -- Selection and appointment.
United States -- Politics and government -- 19th century.