Manuscripts

Campbell, James-Cavasos, Narciso various correspondents

Description: Consists of various correspondence from and addressed to persons other than Hiram Barney to such persons as David Wells Kilbourne, General William T. Sherman, and James C. Stuart Esq.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Date: 1848-1889
Call number: mssHB
Creator: Barney, Hiram(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: gift of Nicholas W. Gillham, July 2008.; Purchased from Walter T. Shatford, 1962.
Restrictions: Open for use by qualified researchers and by appointment. Please contact Reader Services at the Huntington Library for more information.

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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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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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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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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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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Beekman - Booth, various correspondents

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Campbell, James-Cavasos, Narciso various correspondents

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