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Campbell, James-Cavasos, Narciso various correspondents
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Marriage certificate
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Hiram Barney and Harriet E. Kilbourne marriage certificate granted by the state of New York.
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Family papers
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The Family papers, presumably collected by Hiram Barney's daughter, Sara Barney includes family correspondence arranged alphabetically by author, photographs of the family and family home, various forms of ephemera, and envelopes originally addressed to Hiram Barney. Also included are addenda items which contain religious books and literature inscribed by Hiram Barney and a carte-de-visite photograph of Hiram Barney (Brady's National Photographc Portrait Galleries) inscribed to Mrs. Buell.
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Barney, A.C. to Hiram Barney
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A.C. Barney correspondence also includes a letter addressed to Mr. Kilbourne.
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White Elks Vineyards (firm) to Hiram Barney
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See also letters from Lewis Tappan Barney to Hiram Barney family papers, Box 35.
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Chicago & Superior Railroad Company correspondence (James Campbell and Alder Sanborn)
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Hiram Barney's political, business, legal, and family papers concern a wide variety of subjects including real estate, primarily in Iowa, and New York; court cases (often pertaining to debt collection) and other legal services; politics generally, but especially patronage distribution; family affairs, business transactions concerning the Erie and other canals; small railroads (largely in the Lake Plains region); Mexico and Mexican-American relations; the Civil War; U.S. Customs Service. Barney's correspondence contains numerous references to the anti-enslavement movement in the North, the Civil War, Republican Party politics, and Barney's friendship with Abraham Lincoln. Also found throughout this portion of the collection are transportation papers dealing with Barney's interest in connection with the opening up of waterways, the railroad, and the telegraph from the Atlantic Ocean to the Mississippi River. Among the correspondents are William C. Bryant, William A. Butler, Salmon P. Chase, Charles P. Clinch, Erastus Corning, Edward C. Delavan, William P. Fessenden, John Jay, David W. Kilbourne, Eugene Kozlay, Abraham Lincoln, Edward L. Pierce, Matias Romero, Horatio Seymour, William T. Sherman, Edward D. Smith, Breese J. Stevens, Lewis Tappan, William D. Waterman. Real estate papers concern mostly the Half-Breed Tract between the Mississippi and Des Moines rivers. Which includes signed documents of land indentures by specific Indigenous tribal members of the Sak and Fox (Meskwaki) Nation with papers pertaining to the first Anglo proprietors and settlers. Related to Barney's real estate documents are Francis Scott Key's papers. Legal papers extend from 1825 to 1888 and includes articles of partnership, court cases, powers of attorney, and notes for collection. New York Custom House papers cover the general operations, patronage, and personnel of the Custom House, as well as records of the fraud investigations conducted by the U.S. Treasury Department.
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Business correspondence and political papers
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The business correspondence and political papers are arranged in alphabetical order by author. They contain the documents and letters of various groups and individuals, including Hiram Barney, whose papers are further subdivided into correspondence, legal records, real estate documents, and political papers.
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