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Legal notebooks of George S. Taft

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Description: The notebooks contain records of depositions from witnesses in various cases, including contested wills, an attempted rape, and assault and battery. The books also contain detailed depositions regarding a black man arrested in Uxbridge, Mass. in Nov. 1854. John Aldrich and Capt. Scott Seagram, who had detained the man, claimed that he was a Charles B. Scott wanted for an assault in Providence, R.I. The town "public feeling," however, regarded the man a fugitive slave and demanded that he be released. The conflict resulted in an interpleader process. George S. Taft acted as an attorney for John Aldrich
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Production date: 1855-1857.
Call number: mssTaft
Creator: Taft, George S (active 1854-1857)

Notebook - George S. Patton, Sr. Estate

Manuscripts

Personal and business papers of George Smith Patton, Sr., and his family including wife Ruth Wilson Patton, son General George S. Patton, and daughter Anne Wilson Patton. The collection includes correspondence, manuscripts, receipts, tax documents, estate papers, maps, photographs, ephemera, etc. There is some General George S. Patton related material in the collection; most of which is in the Anne Wilson Patton series (finance documents). Box 42 contains correspondence by General George S. Patton (photocopies), his wife Beatrice, and their children. The collection also contains several photographs of General George S. Patton. There is some information amongst the real estate-related papers about racial restrictions in the San Gabriel Valley.

mssPattoncollection

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George Hannum notebook

Manuscripts

The manuscript is titled: A Compendious System of Practical Surveying taken from the latest Author by George Hannum, Philomath, and Taught by John Day, Preceptor. This fragile volume consists of approximately 54 pages of written text and diagrams. This is an advance work of surveying showing how to undertake the solution of complex problems. The manuscript opens with geometrical problems and moves on to right angle and oblique trigonometry. The text then shifts to finding areas of various shapes using logarithms. Also recorded are various methods of mapping and how to draw maps, ad methods of completing surveys for the division of land. It is in this section that Hannum applies colors to the illustrations of some of the surveys. There are two complete surveys and they are segregated in the text by being placed, inverted, on the last blank pages of the manuscript. From Birmingham Township, Pennsylvania.

mssHM 83602

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William H. Taft, Washington, D.C., letter to Calderon Carlisle, Washington, D.C. :

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Is sending twenty copies of the brief on the Sayward case as requested; requests copies of petition, suggestion, and briefs. Postscript and initials in hand of Taft. The Sayward case involved the seizing of a British ship in the Bering Sea in 1887 for hunting fur seals, a violation of an Act of Congress.

mssHM 23510

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Speech of Honorable Preston S. Brooks : delivered at Columbia, South Carolina, Aug. 29, 1856

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A Republican campaign document, giving a report of Brooks' reception in South Carolina and his speech after his assault on Sumner in the Senate

225754

Unidentified man (Levi S. Graybill?)

Manuscripts

A bust-length studio portrait of an unidentified man, possibly Levi Graybill (see HM 77704 for an image of Graybill in military uniform), turned slightly to the left. The man has a neatly trimmed mustache and short but bushy mutton chops. He is wearing a suit with a small bowtie. "F. Gutekunst ; No. 704 & 706 Arch St. ; Philadelphia" and an armorial crest are printed on verso. There is a green and white three cent stamp with a portrait of George Washington attached to the verso.

HM 77756

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George S. Phillips papers

Manuscripts

The bulk of the collection consists of Phillips's correspondence with family and friends that covers his ministry in Ohio and California, his Civil War service, and his brief tenure as the president of Colorado Seminary. Phillips's letters and diaries discuss his ministry, religious revivals in Ohio, family affairs, temperance, political and war news, his journey to Colorado and life in Denver. The diaries also include drafts of sermons, orations, and literary compositions. The correspondence that covers the period of Phillips's service in California consists primarily of letters written to him by his friends and family in Ohio. Phillips's Civil War correspondence and diary provide detailed accounts of Phillips's war experience in Tennessee and Georgia, including the Chickamauga and Atlanta campaigns, religious revivals in the Union Army, news from home, religion in the South, and slavery. Also included is a small group of letters and documents of Phillips's son-in-law Cary W. Kauke, including letters from his friend, Frederick (Fritz) Nussbaum of the 107th Regiment of Ohio Infantry (1862-1863). The collection also contains some correspondence of Addison S. McClure, concerning supplying beef to the United States Army, and post-war letters discussing Ohio and national Republican politics.

mssHM 77128-77352

Legal notebooks of George S. Taft

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