TY  - GEN
AU  - Moon,John Austin
AU  - Appling,Austin M.
TI  - John Austin Moon papers,
KW  - Chattanooga (Tenn.)
KW  - City Attorney
KW  - Hawaii
KW  - Organic Act
KW  - Tennessee
KW  - Supreme Court
KW  - United States
KW  - Congress
KW  - House
KW  - Committee on Post Office and Post Roads
KW  - Post Office Department
KW  - Dodson & Moon
KW  - Federal aid to transportation
KW  - Indians of North America
KW  - Government relations
KW  - Law
KW  - Territories and possessions
KW  - Merchants
KW  - Virginia
KW  - Bristol
KW  - Parcel post
KW  - Postal service
KW  - Practice of law
KW  - Chattanooga
KW  - Public works
KW  - Tennessee River Valley
KW  - Roads
KW  - Circuit courts
KW  - Bristol (Va.)
KW  - Commerce
KW  - Indian Territory
KW  - Politics and government
KW  - 1865-1933
KW  - Jurists
KW  - itoamc
KW  - Lawyers
KW  - Representatives, U.S. Congress
N1  - Open to research
N2  - Correspondence, notes, financial records, scrapbooks, and other papers relating chiefly to Moon's service as U.S. representative from Tennessee including his activities as a member of the U.S. House Committee on Post Office and Post Roads.  Subjects include legislation concerning parcel post, Tennessee River Valley public works, federal aid in construction of public roads, the Organic Act of Hawaii (1900), and other territorial legislation.  Includes material pertaining to Moon's years as a junior member of the law firm of Dodson & Moon, Chattanooga, Tenn.; city attorney, Chattanooga, Tenn.; and Tennessee circuit court judge.  Also includes account ledgers of Moon's grandfather Austin M. Appling, merchant of Chattanooga, Tenn., and Bristol, Va.; letters from persons living in Indian Territory in support of legislation sponsored by Moon that would grant statehood to the territory; and newspaper clippings concerning the Tennessee Supreme Court
UR  - http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms012050
UR  - http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms012050.3
ER  -