Houston, William LePre. creator mixed material monographic eng fre spa 4,000 23 2 9.2 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. Open to research. 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 Houston, Charles Hamilton, 1895-1950 mm 81057570 hdl:loc.mss/eadmss.ms010216 hdl:loc.mss/eadmss.ms010216.3 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms010216 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms010216.3 Open to research. DLC 820107 20260227111709.0 mm 81057570 eng