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George William Childs

Description
Letters, documents, and photographs document the family history; personal affairs of John Bouvier; political affairs, including charges of corruption against Pennsylvania Governor William Findlay (1817-1820); Democratic-Republican politics in Pennsylvania (1820-1824), correspondence and business papers Robert Evans Peterson and his wife Hannah Mary Bouvier Peterson, including matters concerning Mrs. Peterson's astronomy works; incoming correspondence of George William Childs.
Type
Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Production date
1762-1895.
Call number
mssBO
Creator
Bouvier, John (1787-1851)(Opens in new tab)
Additional description
Correspondents include James Todd, Alexander James Dallas, Joseph Ritner, Samuel Austin Allibone, James Thomas Fields, Frederick Edwin Church, Charlotte Saunders Cushman, George William Curtis, Henry Martyn Hoyt, and others.
Provenance
Gift of David Blankenhorn and Maurice Wells, 1956 and 1973.
Associated people
Allibone, S. Austin (1816-1889.)
Childs, George William, (1829-1894,)
Church, Frederic Edwin, (1826-1900.)
Curtis, George William, (1824-1892.)
Cushman, Charlotte, (1816-1876.)
Dallas, Alexander James, (1759-1817.)
Hoyt, Henry M. (1830-1892.)
Ritner, Joseph, (1780-1869.)
Todd, James. (1812-1869.)
Peterson, Robert E., (1811-1870.)
Bouvier, Hannah M.
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