Thaddeus Stevens papers, 1811-1927 (bulk 1850-1868).
Material type:
Mixed materialsDescription: 4,750 items; 8 containers; 3.2 linear feetSubject(s): - Abdallah, Sultan of Anjouan, Comoros
- Binney, John, 1844-1913 -- Correspondence
- Buchanan, James, 1791-1868 -- Correspondence
- Camp, William E., -1841 -- Estate
- Chase, Salmon P. (Salmon Portland), 1808-1873 -- Correspondence
- Dent, W. M. -- Correspondence
- Dickey, Oliver James, 1823-1876 -- Correspondence
- Dockray, F. A. (Frederick A.), approximately 1840- -- Correspondence
- Frémont, John Charles, 1813-1890 -- Correspondence
- Goddard, Henry, 1785-1871 -- Correspondence
- Greeley, Horace, 1811-1872 -- Correspondence
- Hood, Alexander -- Correspondence
- Johnson, Andrew, 1808-1875
- Johnson, Andrew, 1808-1875 -- Impeachment
- Johnson, Reverdy, 1796-1876 -- Correspondence
- Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865
- Maximilian, Emperor of Mexico, 1832-1867
- McClure, Alexander K. (Alexander Kelly), 1828-1909 -- Correspondence
- M'Conaughy, D. (David), 1823- -- Correspondence
- McPherson, Edward, 1830-1895 -- Correspondence
- Merrill, Lewis, 1834-1896 -- Correspondence
- Nesbit, William, active 1867-1868 -- Correspondence
- Reed, William B. (William Bradford), 1806-1876 -- Correspondence
- Reilly, Edward, active 1862 -- Correspondence
- Scott, Winfield, 1786-1866 -- Correspondence
- Selden, Dudley, -1855 -- Correspondence
- Shoch, Samuel -- Correspondence
- Spencer, Charles S. -- Correspondence
- Stevens, A. J., -1863 -- Correspondence
- Stevens, Simon -- Correspondence
- Stevens, Thaddeus, Jr. -- Correspondence
- Sumner, Charles, 1811-1874 -- Correspondence
- Sweney, John -- Correspondence
- Wills, David, 1831-1894 -- Correspondence
- Stevens family
- United States. Army -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865
- United States. Army -- Recruiting, enlistment, etc
- United States. Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands
- United States. Congress. House
- Caledonia Iron Works
- J. D. Paxton & Co
- Republican Party (U.S. : 1854- )
- Stevens & Paxton Co
- Union Pacific Railroad Company
- Whig Party (U.S.)
- Wrightsville, York, and Gettysburg Railroad Company
- African Americans -- Suffrage
- Anti-Masonic movements
- Bank loans -- United States
- Coal mines and mining -- Pennsylvania
- Draft -- United States
- Education -- Pennsylvania
- Gold standard
- Government securities -- United States
- Impeachments -- United States
- Iron industry and trade -- Pennsylvania
- Iron mines and mining -- Pennsylvania
- Paper money -- United States
- Railroads -- United States
- Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877)
- Secession -- Southern States
- Slavery -- United States
- States' rights (American politics)
- Tariff -- United States
- Taxation -- United States
- Alaska -- Annexation to the United States
- Anjouan (Comoros) -- History
- Mexico -- History -- European intervention, 1861-1867
- Pennsylvania -- Commerce
- Pennsylvania -- Politics and government -- 19th century
- Southern States -- Politics and government -- 1865-1950
- United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865
- United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Confiscations and contributions
- United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Finance
- United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Participation, African American
- United States -- Politics and government -- 19th century
- Lawyers
- Representatives, U.S. Congress -- Pennsylvania
Open to research.
Correspondence; speeches; legal, business, and financial records; biographical material; clippings; printed matter; and other papers relating chiefly to Stevens's service in the U.S. Congress and to family and business affairs. Subjects include Abraham Lincoln; African American suffrage; African American troops; Andrew Johnson's policies and impeachment; anti-Masonic movement; bank loans; the Civil War; confiscation of Confederate property; conscription; education in Pennsylvania; finance of the Civil War; gold standard; mining of coal and iron ore in Pennsylvania; paper money secured by government bonds; Pennsylvania state and national politics; railroads; Reconstruction and the political situation in the South; the Republican Party; secession; slavery; states' rights; tariffs; taxation; the treaty to purchase Alaska; the Union Army; the Union Pacific Railroad Company; U.S. Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands (Freedman's Bureau); the Whig Party; Abdallah, Sultan of Anjouan (Johanna Island), Comoros; and the occupation of Mexico by Maximilian, Emperor of Mexico. Subjects also include Stevens's partnership in Caledonia Iron Works, J. D. Paxton & Co. (later Stevens & Paxton Co.), and the Wrightsville, York, and Gettysburg Railroad Company; and the estate of William Camp.
Correspondents include John Binney, James Buchanan, Salmon P. Chase, W.M. Dent, Oliver James Dickey, F.A. Dockray, John Charles Frémont, Henry Goddard, Horace Greeley, Alexander Hood, Reverdy Johnson, Alexander K. McClure, D. M'Conaughy, Edward McPherson, Lewis Merrill, William Nesbit, William B. Reed, Edward Reilly, Winfield Scott, Dudley Selden, Samuel Shoch, Charles S. Spencer, A.J. Stevens, Simon Stevens, Thaddeus Stevens. Jr., Charles Sumner, John Sweney, and David Wills.
Lawyer and U.S. representative of Pennsylvania.
Collection material in English.
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