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    <title>Thomas Ewing family papers, 1757-1941 (bulk 1815-1896)</title>
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    <namePart>Ewing, Thomas</namePart>
    <namePart type="date">1789-1871</namePart>
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  <abstract>Correspondence, diaries, journals, writings, speeches, biographical and genealogical material, military papers, financial and legal papers, scrapbooks, printed materials, maps, photographs, and other papers concerning American political, economic, and social life.  Subjects include westward expansion and frontier life, the disposal of public lands and land speculation, law and legal practice in Ohio, Ohio and national Whig politics, anti-Jacksonianism, the Bank of the United States, the organization of the U.S. Dept. of the Interior, the California gold rush, the rise of the Republican Party, sectionalism, Kansas statehood, the Washington Peace Convention (Conference Convention) of 1861, the Civil War, the assassination of Abraham Lincoln, the impeachment of Andrew Johnson, the currency question and Greenback movement, the Ohio centennial, and the development and administration of patent law in the U.S. from 1913 to 1917.</abstract>
  <abstract>Correspondents include Philemon Beecher, Nicholas Biddle, James Gillespie Blaine, Orville Hickman Browning, Henry Clay, Thomas Corwin, John J. Crittenden, Charles B. Goddard, Horace Greeley, William Henry Harrison, Britton Armstrong Hill, Hocking H. Hunter, Reverdy Johnson, Abbott Lawrence, Abraham Lincoln, John McLean, Richard Olney, Thomas Collier Platt, Samuel C. Pomeroy, William S. Rosecrans, William Henry Seward, John Sherman, William T. Sherman, Henry Stanbery, Noah Haynes Swayne, Allen Granbery Thurman, John Tyler, Samuel Finley Vinton, and Daniel Webster.</abstract>
  <note>Open to research.</note>
  <note>Some photographs and other pictorial material transferred to Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division.</note>
  <note>Some pamphlets and newspaper clippings transferred to Library of Congress Rare Book and Special Collections Division.</note>
  <note>Some maps transferred to Library of Congress Geography and Map Division.</note>
  <note>U.S. cabinet officer and senator from Ohio.  Other family members represented include his sons, Thomas (1829-1896), U.S. Army officer and congressman from Ohio, and Hugh (1826-1905), U.S. minister to Holland; his daughter and son-in-law, Ellen Ewing Sherman (1824-1888) and William T. Sherman (1820-1891), U.S. Army officer; and his grandson, Thomas Ewing (1862-1942), U.S. commissioner of patents, lawyer, and author.</note>
  <note>Collection material in English.</note>
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      <namePart>Beecher, Philemon</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1775-1839</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Biddle, Nicholas</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1786-1844</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Blaine, James Gillespie</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1830-1893</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Browning, Orville Hickman</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1806-1881</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Clay, Henry</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1777-1852</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Corwin, Thomas</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1794-1865</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Crittenden, John J. (John Jordan)</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1787-1863</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Goddard, Charles B. (Charles Backus)</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1796-1864</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Greeley, Horace</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1811-1872</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Harrison, William Henry</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1773-1841</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Hill, Britton Armstrong</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1818-1888</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Hunter, Hocking H</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Jackson, Andrew</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1767-1845</namePart>
    </name>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Johnson, Andrew</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1808-1875</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Impeachment</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Johnson, Reverdy</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1796-1876</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Lawrence, Abbott</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1792-1855</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Lincoln, Abraham</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1809-1865</namePart>
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    <topic>Assassination</topic>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Lincoln, Abraham</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1809-1865</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>McLean, John</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1785-1861</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Olney, Richard</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1835-1917</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Platt, Thomas Collier</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1833-1910</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Pomeroy, S. C. (Samuel Clarke)</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1816-1891</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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      <namePart>Rosecrans, William S. (William Starke)</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1819-1898</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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      <namePart>Seward, William Henry</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1801-1872</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Sherman, John</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1823-1900</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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      <namePart>Sherman, William T. (William Tecumseh)</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1820-1891</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Stanbery, Henry</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1803-1881</namePart>
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      <namePart>Swayne, Noah Haynes</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1804-1884</namePart>
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      <namePart>Thurman, Allen Granbery</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1813-1895</namePart>
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      <namePart>Tyler, John</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1790-1862</namePart>
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      <namePart>Vinton, Samuel Finley</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1792-1862</namePart>
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      <namePart>Webster, Daniel</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1782-1852</namePart>
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      <namePart>Ewing family</namePart>
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      <namePart>Department of the Interior.</namePart>
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    <name type="corporate">
      <namePart>Bank of the United States (1816-1836)</namePart>
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    <name type="corporate">
      <namePart>Republican Party (U.S. : 1854- )</namePart>
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    <name type="corporate">
      <namePart>Whig Party (U.S.)</namePart>
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    <name type="conference">
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    <topic>Banks and banking</topic>
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    <topic>Currency question</topic>
    <geographic>United States</geographic>
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    <topic>Frontier and pioneer life</topic>
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    <geographic>United States</geographic>
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    <topic>Law</topic>
    <geographic>Ohio</geographic>
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    <topic>Patent laws and legislation</topic>
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    <geographic>Ohio</geographic>
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    <geographic>United States</geographic>
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    <geographic>California</geographic>
    <topic>Gold discoveries</topic>
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    <geographic>Kansas</geographic>
    <topic>Politics and government</topic>
    <temporal>1854-1861</temporal>
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    <geographic>United States</geographic>
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    <temporal>To 1933</temporal>
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    <geographic>United States</geographic>
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    <temporal>Civil War, 1861-1865</temporal>
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    <geographic>United States</geographic>
    <topic>Politics and government</topic>
    <temporal>19th century</temporal>
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    <geographic>United States</geographic>
    <topic>Social life and customs</topic>
    <temporal>19th century</temporal>
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    <geographic>West (U.S.)</geographic>
    <topic>History</topic>
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    <occupation>Cabinet officers</occupation>
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    <occupation>Senators, U.S.Congress</occupation>
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      <title>Hugh Ewing papers</title>
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      <namePart>Ewing, Hugh,</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1826-1905</namePart>
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      <namePart type="date">1829-1896</namePart>
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      <namePart type="date">1862-1942</namePart>
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      <namePart>Sherman, Ellen Ewing,</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1824-1888</namePart>
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      <namePart>Sherman, William T. (William Tecumseh),</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1820-1891</namePart>
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