Title Page | Collection Summary | Biographical/Organizational Note | Scope and Content | Arrangement
Collection Summary
Title | Charles Butler papers, 1819-1929 |
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Span Dates | 1819-1929 |
Bulk Dates | (bulk 1825-1894) |
ID No. | MSS14522 |
Creator | Butler, Charles, 1802-1897 |
Extent | 2,172 items |
Extent | 5 containers |
Extent | 3 linear feet |
Extent | 4 microfilm reels |
Language | Collection material in English |
Location | Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. |
Finding Aid Permalink | Cite or bookmark this finding aid as: https://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms001038 |
LCCN Permalink | LC Catalog record: https://lccn.loc.gov/mm75014522 |
Summary | Entrepreneur, lawyer, and philanthropist. Correspondence, travel diaries, legal, financial, and business papers, and maps, newspaper clippings, and other papers documenting Butler's involvement in New York politics and his interest in such matters as anti-Masonry, public debts in Illinois, Indiana, and Michigan, loans to farmers by the New York Life Insurance and Trust Company, legal cases (particularly the William Morgan kidnapping), and improvements in transportation, especially in roads, canals, and railroads. |