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Correspondence; speeches; legal, business, and financial records; biographical material; clippings; printed matter; and other papers relating chiefly to Stevens's service in the U.S. Congress and to family and business affairs. Subjects include Abraham Lincoln; African American suffrage; African American troops; Andrew Johnson's policies and impeachment; anti-Masonic movement; bank loans; the Civil War; confiscation of Confederate property; conscription; education in Pennsylvania; finance of the Civil War; gold standard; mining of coal and iron ore in Pennsylvania; paper money secured by government bonds; Pennsylvania state and national politics; railroads; Reconstruction and the political situation in the South; the Republican Party; secession; slavery; states' rights; tariffs; taxation; the treaty to purchase Alaska; the Union Army; the Union Pacific Railroad Company; U.S. Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands (Freedman's Bureau); the Whig Party; Abdallah, Sultan of Anjouan (Johanna Island), Comoros; and the occupation of Mexico by Maximilian, Emperor of Mexico. Subjects also include Stevens's partnership in Caledonia Iron Works, J. D. Paxton & Co. (later Stevens & Paxton Co.), and the Wrightsville, York, and Gettysburg Railroad Company; and the estate of William Camp.
Correspondents include John Binney, James Buchanan, Salmon P. Chase, W.M. Dent, Oliver James Dickey, F.A. Dockray, John Charles Frémont, Henry Goddard, Horace Greeley, Alexander Hood, Reverdy Johnson, Alexander K. McClure, D. M'Conaughy, Edward McPherson, Lewis Merrill, William Nesbit, William B. Reed, Edward Reilly, Winfield Scott, Dudley Selden, Samuel Shoch, Charles S. Spencer, A.J. Stevens, Simon Stevens, Thaddeus Stevens. Jr., Charles Sumner, John Sweney, and David Wills.
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Correspondence, States' rights (American politics), Stevens & Paxton Co, Commerce, Iron mines and mining, Suffrage, Slavery, United States. Army, Impeachments, Confiscations and contributions, Annexation to the United States, Draft, Whig Party (U.S.), United States. Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, J. D. Paxton & Co, Secession, Union Pacific Railroad Company, Gold standard, History, Politics and government, United States. Congress. House, African American Participation, Finance, Estate, Iron industry and trade, Taxation, Bank loans, Railroads, Recruiting, enlistment, Impeachment, African Americans, United States, Education, Coal mines and mining, Wrightsville, York, and Gettysburg Railroad Company, Republican Party (U.S. : 1854- ), Tariff, Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877), Government securities, Anti-Masonic movements, Caledonia Iron Works, Paper moneyPeople
Andrew Johnson (1808-1875), Lewis Merrill (1834-1896), William B. Reed (1806-1876), Charles S. Spencer, Alexander Hood, John Charles Frémont (1813-1890), Edward Reilly (fl. 1862), John Binney (1844-1913), William Nesbit (fl. 1867-1868), David Wills (1831-1894), Horace Greeley (1811-1872), W. M. Dent, D. M'Conaughy (b. 1823), Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865), Simon Stevens, Samuel Shoch, Charles Sumner (1811-1874), Thaddeus Stevens Jr, Reverdy Johnson (1796-1876), Edward McPherson (1830-1895), James Buchanan (1791-1868), Abdallah Sultan of Anjouan, Comoros, F. A. Dockray (b. ca. 1840), Salmon P. Chase (1808-1873), A. J. Stevens (d. 1863), Winfield Scott (1786-1866), Alexander K. McClure (1828-1909), Stevens family, Maximilian Emperor of Mexico (1832-1867), John Sweney, William E. Camp (d. 1841), Oliver James Dickey (1823-1876), Henry Goddard (1785-1871), Dudley Selden (d. 1855)Showing 1 featured edition. View all 1 editions?
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Open to research.
Gift and purchase, 1907-1945.
Lawyer and U.S. representative of Pennsylvania.
Collection material in English.
Finding aid available in the Library of Congress Manuscript Division and on Internet.
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