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:
Dix, John A. (John Adams), 1798-1879.
Inclusive Dates:
1831- 1879
Abstract:
Papers of the Army officer; U.S. Senator (1845-1849); U.S. Secretary of the Treasury. During the Civil War, President Lincoln commissioned Dix a major-general, and ordered him to take charge of the Alexandria and Arlington Department, then reassigned him to the Department of Maryland. Dix later served as commander of the Department of the East. After the Civil War, Dix was named Minister to France (1866-1869), and following his return to the U.S., the life-long Democrat became the Republican Party nominee and the successful candidate for the Governorship of New York State (1873-1875). Includes more than 130 items of outgoing correspondence, more than half of which were written to Edwards Pierrepont between 1861 and 1877. Subjects include the Civil War, Reconstruction, New York State and national politics, and French politics and foreign relations preceding the outbreak of the Franco-Prussian War.
Type of Material:
Correspondence.
Subject:
Baltimore (Md.) -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865.
France -- Foreign relations -- United States.
France -- Foreign relations -- 1852-1870.
France -- Politics and government -- 1852-1870.
New York (State) -- History -- 1775-1865.
New York (State) -- History -- 1865-
New York (State) -- Politics and government -- 1775-1865.
New York (State) -- Politics and government -- 1865-1950.
United States -- Foreign relations -- France.
United States -- History -- 1815-1861 -- Sources.
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Sources.
United States -- History -- 1865-1898 -- Sources.
United States -- History, Military.
United States -- Politics and government -- 1861-1865.
United States -- Politics and government -- 1865-1877.
Diplomats.
Governors.
Statesmen.
Military history
New York State
Politics, government and public administration
Civil War (U.S.)
Finance, Public -- United States.
Governors -- New York (State)
Political parties -- New York (State)
Political prisoners -- United States.
Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877)