Thompson, Ambrose W. creator mixed material monographic eng fre ger spa 12,000 53 2 26 Business and family correspondence, letterbooks, memoranda, reports, statistical tables, patent papers, stocks and bonds, printed matter, drawings, maps, and other papers relating chiefly to Thompson's business interests in canals, land speculation, railroads, and steamships. Records of the Chiriqui Improvement Company pertain to its efforts to establish a colony of freedmen from the District of Columbia in Chiriqui Province, Panama, as well as to develop the company's transportation and mining interests in Panama. Includes correspondence of Thompson's son, Ambrose Thompson, Jr., pertaining to his role in his father's enterprises. Correspondents include James Mitchell Ashley, Edward Fitzgerald Beale, Simon Cameron, John A. Dix, William Maxwell Evarts, Lucius Fairchild, Gustavus Vasa Fox, William Henry Hurlbert, Abraham Lincoln, Thomas Francis Meagher, Juan Pattison, Francis Harrison Pierpont, S.C. Pomeroy, David D. Porter, Fitz-John Porter, Samuel Shellabarger, Franz Sigel, Caleb B. Smith, Richard W. Thompson, John Palmer Usher, and Henry A. Wise. Open to research. Businessman. Born 1811. Died 1882. Collection material in English, with Spanish, German, and French. Finding aid available in the Library of Congress Manuscript Reading Room and at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms012113 Ashley, James Mitchell 1824-1896 Correspondence Beale, Edward Fitzgerald 1822-1893 Correspondence Cameron, Simon 1799-1889 Correspondence Dix, John A. (John Adams) 1798-1879 Correspondence Evarts, William Maxwell 1818-1901 Correspondence Fairchild, Lucius 1831-1896 Correspondence Fox, Gustavus Vasa 1821-1883 Correspondence Hurlbert, William Henry 1827-1895 Correspondence Lincoln, Abraham 1809-1865 Correspondence Meagher, Thomas Francis 1823-1867 Correspondence Pattison, Juan Correspondence Pierpont, Francis Harrison 1814-1899 Correspondence Pomeroy, S. C. (Samuel Clarke) 1816-1891 Correspondence Porter, David D. (David Dixon) 1813-1891 Correspondence Porter, Fitz-John 1822-1901 Correspondence Shellabarger, Samuel 1888-1954 Correspondence Sigel, Franz 1824-1902 Correspondence Smith, Caleb B. (Caleb Blood) 1808-1864 Correspondence Jr Thompson, Ambrose Correspondence Thompson, Richard W. (Richard Wigginton) 1809-1900 Correspondence Usher, John Palmer 1816-1889 Correspondence Wise, Henry A. (Henry Alexander) 1806-1876 Correspondence Thompson family Correspondence Chiriqui Improvement Company. African Americans Colonization African Americans Washington (D.C.) Canals Freedmen Colonization Land speculation Mines and mineral resources Panama Railroads Steamboats Transportation Panama Chiriquí (Panama : Province) Panama Colonization Panama History To 1903 Businessmen mm 79042804 hdl:loc.mss/eadmss.ms012113 hdl:loc.mss/eadmss.ms012113.3 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms012113 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms012113.3 Open to research. DLC 850606 20260227111657.0 mm 79042804