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Lawyer, farmer, and U.S. representative and senator from and governor of Ohio. Correspondence, speeches, memoranda, financial records, printed material, maps, and other papers largely relating to Allen's service as United States senator (1837-1848) and governor (1873-1875) of Ohio.

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Explorer. Diary, memoranda, statements, reports, and miscellaneous items concerning the Baldwin-Ziegler Polar Expedition (1901-1902).

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Clergyman, educator, and farmer. Correspondence, business and financial papers, subject files, reports, speeches, newspaper clippings, and miscellany relating to various members of the Chase family, especially Cornelius Chase, his son, Cornelius Thurston Chase, and the latter's career as superintendent of public instruction in Florida. Other material concerns the slave trade in Richmond, Virginia, the Confederate Army, and the Reverend Jonas King.

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Farmer, lawyer, and statesman. Correspondence, legal papers, memoirs including a memoir of Clayton by Robert Montgomery Bird, and newspaper clippings pertaining chiefly to Clayton’s service as United States secretary of state (1849-1850).

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Soldier and farmer. Correspondence, a diary, a journal, a photograph, family papers, writings, and other papers relating chiefly to Gillam's Civil War service with the Twenty-eighth New York Infantry Regiment, United States Army. The diary, written by W. L. Hicks, documents the history of the twenty-eighth regiment of New York.

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Farmer, preacher, and trader. Memoirs documenting Howard's life as well as genealogical material, legal documents, and printed matter.

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Soldier. Correspondence, photographs, and other papers relating to Kirkpatrick's service in the 11th Wisconsin Infantry Regiment, Union army, during the American Civil War. Also contains family correspondence, primarily of Kirkpatrick's parents, siblings, and aunt and uncle.

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Clerk of the United States Senate and farmer of Fairfax County, Virginia. Chiefly family correspondence of Lewis H. Machen relating to personal matters and national politics prior to the Civil War, especially slavery and the Compromise of 1850, and mentioning John Quincy Adams, Henry Clay, Andrew Jackson, and Daniel Webster. Also includes other correspondence, speeches, writings, subject files, and miscellaneous papers.

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Army officer, farmer, and author. Diaries, correspondence, writings, and other material relating to Mitchell's court-martial; aerial operations of the army, the U.S. Army Signal Corps Aviation Section, later the U.S. Army Air Service, during World War I; and subsequent developments of air power.

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Cabinet officers, diplomats, farmers, jurists, lawyers, senators, soldiers, and statesmen. Correspondence and other material of Caesar Rodney, Thomas Rodney, and C. A. Rodney.

Abstract Family of Lawrence Van Buren, farmer and civic leader of Kinderhook, New York, and brother of Martin Van Buren, eighth president of the United States. Correspondence, deeds, indentures, photographs, newspapers, news clippings, notes, agreements, and genealogical material documenting the Van Buren, Dodge, and Woolfolk families from the eighteenth century to the early twentieth century. Of special interest are papers concerning land and financial transactions among the Van Buren family, and...

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Farmer, publicist, and U.S. assistant secretary of agriculture. Chiefly correspondence and family papers of Vrooman and members of the Vrooman and Scott family, including his wife, Julia Scott Vrooman, and her mother, Julia Green Scott.