04483cpcaa2200661 i 4500 mm 81057570 DLC 20260227111709.0 cr ||||||||||| 820107|||||||||||| eng mm 81057570 DLC eng dacs DLC DLC eng fre spa B lcmd Houston, William LePre. William LePre Houston family papers, 1777-1936 (bulk 1890-1936). 4,000 items. 23 containers plus 2 oversize. 9.2 linear feet. Arranged in 5 series. Series 1: Correspondence, 1887-1936; Series 2: William LePre Houston, 1867-1933; Series 3: Charles Hamilton Houston, 1871-1935; Series 4: Miscellany, 1777-1936; and Series 5: Oversize, 1911-1923. Open to research. Correspondence, diaries, financial records, academic papers, printed material, and other papers chiefly of William LePre Houston, a Washington, D.C., lawyer, and his son and law partner, Charles Hamilton Houston. Documents William's work as attorney for the Railway Men's International Benevolent Industrial Association and other African American labor organizations, his activism as a Republican, and his position as grandmaster of the Grand United Order of Odd Fellows in America. Other subjects include Charles's service in the U.S. Army in France during World War I and his education at Amherst College, Amherst, Mass., Harvard Law School, Cambridge, Mass., and the Universidad Central (Spain), Madrid, Spain, and Houston family life. An autograph collection contains signatures of George Washington and Anthony Wayne. Family correspondents include William LePre Houston's wife, Mary Ethel Hamilton Houston, and Charles Hamilton Houston's first wife, Margaret Gladys Moran Houston. Other correspondents include W.E.B. Du Bois, William Hastie, Will H. Hays, G. David Houston, Mordecai W. Johnson, Edward H. Morris, Booker T. Washington, and Carter Godwin Woodson. Issues, dating 1828 and 1829, of the Daily National Intelligencer and National Intelligencer transferred to Library of Congress Serial and Government Publications Division. Some photographs transferred to Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division. William LePre Houston (1870-1953), lawyer, and his son, Charles Hamilton Houston, also a lawyer. Collection material in English, with French and Spanish. Finding aid available in the Library of Congress Manuscript Reading Room and at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms010216. Du Bois, W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt), 1868-1963 Correspondence. Hastie, William, 1904-1976 Correspondence. Hays, Will H. (Will Harrison), 1879-1954 Correspondence. Houston, G. David Correspondence. Houston, Margaret Gladys Moran Correspondence. Houston, Mary Ethel Hamilton Correspondence. Johnson, Mordecai W. (Mordecai Wyatt), 1890-1976 Correspondence. Morris, Edward H. Correspondence. Washington, Booker T., 1856-1915 Correspondence. Washington, George, 1732-1799 Autographs. Wayne, Anthony, 1745-1796 Autographs. Woodson, Carter Godwin, 1875-1950 Correspondence. Houston family. United States. Army History World War, 1914-1918. Amherst College. Grand United Order of Odd Fellows in America. Harvard Law School. Railway Men's International Benevolent Industrial Association. Universidad Central (Spain) African Americans. Labor unions, Black United States. Practice of law Washington (D.C.) Republican Party (U.S. : 1854- ) World War, 1914-1918 France. Lawyers. itoamc Houston, Charles Hamilton, 1895-1950. Charles Hamilton Houston papers. 1871-1935. Finding aid http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms010216 Finding aid (PDF) http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms010216.3 43222 43222