Manuscripts
Thomas Truxtun heirs correspondence and papers
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Letters and documents
Manuscripts
Letters and papers exchanged between the various Truxtun heirs regarding their case. Included is genealogical data of the Truxtun, Houston, Van Drieull, Eastman, and Talbot families, along with Truxton's will and relevant biographical data.
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John Oscar Culver correspondence and business papers; ephemera
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Box contains John Oscar Culver's personal correspondence and business papers; also, miscellaneous personal letters relevant to others, letters related to the U. S. Army, and ephemera.
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Thomas William Sweeny papers
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This collection contains the personal and professional papers of Thomas William Sweeny, including his personal and official correspondence, military records, and diaries, and the correspondence of William Montgomery Sweeny. Also included photographs, some pencil and ink drawings, and ephemera. Personal correspondence of Thomas William Sweeny, chiefly his letters to the family and friends written from 1846 to 1892. Military correspondence and documents - letters, orders, communications, reports, ordnance receipts, commissions, recruiting records, etc. -- accumulated by Sweeny during his service in the Mexican War, the tours in California and Nebraska Territory, and the Civil War, chiefly those received by him or his staff. There are some retained copies of outgoing communications and reports, including official reports on the battles of Shiloh and Corinth, and the march on the Holly Springs, some with by hand-drawn maps. Also included are the speech that Sweeny delivered on the first anniversary of the Battle of Shiloh, and his farewell address to the troops (July 1864). A large part of Sweeny's correspondence that he kept after his retirement from the army consists of letters from veterans and veteran organizations, including the associations of the veterans of the Mexican War, the 52nd Illinois Infantry, Army of the Tennessee, officers of the Irish Brigade, Associated Pioneers of the Territorial Days of California, Military Service Institution, the Grand Army of the Republic, Hibernian Benevolent Society, and others. Also included is the diary that Thomas William Sweeny kept during his service at Fort Yuma in 1851-1853. Another diary, titled "Life in the American Desert" (1851, June-July) consists of clippings of the articles published in installments by the New York Atlas in 1856-1857, with author's annotations. Correspondence and papers of William Montgomery Sweeny, chiefly letters addressed to him and related to his biographical and genealogical studies, including some genealogical data.Materials created by US presidents include: Ulysses S. Grant letter to Thomas Sidney Jesup, 1847 January 31 (SW 181); James K. Polk commission to Thomas W. Sweeny, 1848 April 21 (SW 358); Millard Fillmore commission to Thomas W. Sweeny, 1852 July 3 (SW 154); all items are in box 1. Note: This collection doesn't contain any materials dealing with the Fenian invasion. Persons represented by 5 or more items consist of: Sarah A (Sweeny) Barnard (7 pieces); Emile H. Brie (7 pieces); Charles Brower (9 pieces); Francis D. Clark (10 pieces); James Edward Kelly (5 pieces); W. H. Lane (6 pieces); C. Osgood Morse (7 pieces); Samuel Vincent Niles (7 pieces); James Rowan O'Beirne (6 pieces); Grenville Mellen Dodge (5 pieces); Mary P. Kilby (7 pieces); Fitz John Porter (7 pieces); Franz Sigel (11 pieces); Edward B Spalding Spalding (8 pieces); Charles Baxter Sweeny (15 pieces); Eugenia O. (Reagan) Sweeny (5 pieces); Frances Ellen Sweeny (11 pieces); Sarah Bernard Sweeny (5 pieces); Sarah Bernard Sweeny (5 pieces); and Thomas William Sweeny (335 (approx.) pieces) Some notable items include: SW 181 Grant, Ulysses S. Letter to Gen. Thomas S. Jesup. 1847, Jan. 31 SW 403 Scott, Winfield. Letter to David Conner: re. Taylor's victory over Santa Ana. 1847, Mar. 16 SW 540 Sweeny, Thomas W. To C. Lovell: Report on Battle of Corinth (Miss.). 1862, Oct. 15 SW 626 Sweeny, Thomas W. Official Report of the Battle of Shiloh. 1862 SW 627 Sweeny, Thomas W. Official Report of Brig. Gen. Sweeny of the March to Holly Springs (Miss.). 1863, Oct. 21 SW 634 Sweeny, Thomas W. "The Siege and Occopation of Corinth" (of 1862). c. 1865 SW 771 Account of battle of 52nd Ill. Reg. at Pittsburg Landing under command of Thomas William Sweeny, Feb. 1862 SW 850(1-120) Sweeny, Thomas W. & others. Letterbook. Contains correspondence re Yuma military reservation on the Colorado River, and the Sioux expedition in Nebraska Territory. SW 862(1-195) Sweeny, Thomas W. & others. Letterbook. Contains correspondence during Civil War The letterbook containing Civil War correspondence (SW 862) has been disbound for conservation purposes and the individual letters foldered sequentially in 4 boxes.
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Cook family papers
Manuscripts
The collection contains correspondence between James Clinton Cook and his family exchanged during his Civil War service from 1862 to 1863. Also includes Mary Cook's letter to Benjamin Trumbull Kneeland (1825-1903), her husband's regimental surgeon, and a letter from her relative, Luther Perkins, a ship carpenter in St. Louis, Missouri. Also included are family photographs, from the 1860s to the early 1900s, a portrait of Lemuel Cook made after a famous photograph taken of him in approximately 1864, and genealogical correspondence, genealogical charts, and other materials assembled by Flora Cordelia Cook in the 1950s.
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Glasser correspondence
Manuscripts
Includes article "Edison's Rontgen [sic] Rays Experiments," by Edwin J. Houston and A. E. Kennelly from "The Electric World," volume xxvii, no. 12.
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Thomas H. Hansbrow Papers
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The collection consists of one manuscript which has been separated into 4 folders and 19 pieces of correspondence arranged by date and 30 pieces of ephemera arranged by subject. The manuscript is the memoir of Thomas H. Hansbrow's brother-in-law, Samuel A. Randel, and there are sections which relate to Hansbrow's marriage and travel to California in 1849. Mostly, the manuscript recounts the author's family history and his personal life. There are many descriptions of his boyhood in Illinois in the 1840s and 1850s. Most of the correspondence is to Thomas H. Hansbrow regarding the various pumps he designed for mining, steamers, agriculture and railroads. There are a few letters regarding family and friends. The ephemera consists of 30 items. It contains diagrams and graphs of the pumps Hansbrow designed and sold, his wife's will, materials from Hansbrow's involvement in the World's Fair and newspaper articles regarding Hansbrow. Subjects in the collection include: California State Agricultural Society; DePauw University; Farm life in Illinois; inventors of California; history of Macoupin County, Ill.; Design and construction of Pumping machinery; the United States Civil War; and Voyages to the Pacific coast.
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