Manuscripts

Mortgage ledger [Box HB 1]

Description: The ledger contains lot numbers and payments associated with land owners; the information may pertain to the Keokuk, Iowa land tracts.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Date: 1856-1858
Call number: mssHB
Creator: Barney, Hiram(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: gift of Nicholas W. Gillham, July 2008.; Purchased from Walter T. Shatford, 1962.
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Business ledgers of the White Elk Vineyard

Manuscripts

The account ledgers of the White Elk Vineyard for the years 1877 (HB 5), 1872-1873 (HB 6 & 7); 1873-1874 (HB 8); 1875, 1877 (HB 9 & 10), and 1878 (HB 11). Also included in the collection is the account ledger of George B. Smyth & Co., a meat-packing company in Keokuk, Iowa for 1873-1874 (HB 12). The company founded by George B. Smyth (1828-1909) in 1852 with A.L. Connable. During 1872, the company purchased five acres of land in West Keokuk and installed a large, stone cold storage.

mssHB 5-12

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Miscellaneous photographs and postcards

Manuscripts

Cabinet card images include Lieut. Haskell, "Happy Family" Civil War Regiment outside of a tent, a female portrait, and Mr. D.H Sayr's house in Alexandria, Missouri during a flood.The (2) postcards are views, one of which is the water front of Keokuk, Iowa.

mssHB

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Barney, Hiram, Iowa Territory real estate documents

Manuscripts

Consists of legal documents, mortgages, deeds, and payments in Lee County between the Des Moines and Mississippi Rivers. Also included are the land indentures pertaining to the Half Breed Tract in the southern portion of the Iowa Territory.

mssHB

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Map of the Half Breed Sac & Fox Reservation [Box HB 4]

Manuscripts

The Half Breed Sac & Fox Reservation surveyed by Jenifer T. Sprigg under the direction of William Clark, the Superintendent of Indian Affairs. The Bureau of Topographical Engineers in Washington City certified the copy on October 14, 1840. The surveyed tract map includes the signatures of Lieutenant Colonel James Kearney and Joel Roberts Poinsett.

mssHB

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Madison, James to Aaron Hassert Appointment [HB 3]

Manuscripts

The Appointment of Aaron Hassert to Inspector of the Revenue for the Port of Perth Amboy on 22 May 1812 signed by President James Madison and Secretary of State James Monroe.

mssHB

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Land titles, mortgages and payments (Keokuk, Iowa)

Manuscripts

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.

mssHB

Mortgage ledger [Box HB 1]

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