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Jeremiah S. Black and Edwin M. Stanton
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A contribution to history : Edwin M. Stanton, his character and public services on the eve of the rebellion
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Edwin Stanton. Letter to Margaret S. Hereford Hereford Wilson. Etiwanda, California
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The collection consists of letters, manuscripts, documents and maps related to the life and business affairs of Benjamin D. Wilson. Subject matter includes business and social life in California (1850-90), Indian affairs in Southern California (1852-56), the wine industry, the Santa Fe trade, the estate settlement of Solomon Sublette, and the early history of Pasadena, San Marino, and Wilmington, California. There is also a great deal of personal correspondence from Wilson's wife Margaret S. Hereford Hereford Wilson, his daughters Maria de Jesus Wilson Shorb, Ruth Wilson Patton, and Annie Wilson, his son John B. Wilson, Ruth's husband George S. Patton, Sr., and many of Margaret's Hereford relatives. Also included are diaries kept by Margaret, Ruth, and Annie Wilson. Other individuals represented in the collection include Phineas Banning, Edward Fitzgerald Beale, Joseph Lancaster Brent, Cave Johnson Couts, Stephen Clark Foster, John Charles Fŕemont, John S. Griffin, William McKendree Gwin, Benjamin Hayes, Henry Edwards Huntington, George S. Patton, Jr., and Jonathan Trumbull Warner.
WN 864.
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Ulysses S. Grant, St. Louis, Missouri, telegram to Edwin M. Stanton :
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Sending recommendation for the arrest of Fenians Sweeney, Roberts, and others in breach of present neutrality laws. Letter marked cipher.
mssHM 25081