Elder, Abram P. T. (Abram Peter Turner) creator mixed material monographic eng 3,280 11 1 5 Correspondence, biographical files, business records of the National Biographical Society, illustrated materials, photographs, and other papers pertaining primarily to Elder's creation and publication of biographical directories for the society. Includes research and publication materials for Charles Henry Grosvenor's Book of the Presidents, with Biographical Sketches (1902) and other biographical directories. Also includes materials relating to an exhibit promoting sales of a directory at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition San Francisco, Calif. (1915), and papers pertaining to the Elder's home in Middletown, R.I. Biographical files contain correspondence, biographical entries, clippings, printed matter, and photographs regarding prominent local, state, and national politicians, capitalists, and philanthropists. Individuals represented include Charles F. Chickering, W.W. Corcoran, Moody Currier, H.A. Du Pont, Mary Baker Eddy, Isaac E. Emerson, Charles W. Fairbanks, Marshall Field, Julius Fleischmann, Ulysses S. Grant II, Solomon R. Guggenheim, William Guggenheim, Edward Everett Hale, Marcus Alonzo Hanna, David N. Hershey, Christian Heurich, Henry Edwards Huntington, Charles Kellogg, Henry Miles Knowles, Daniel Scott Lamont, Craige Lippincott, Nicholas Longworth, Cyrus Hall McCormick, Darius O. Mills, J. Pierpont Morgan, Levi P. Morton, Gottlieb Muhlhauser, Francis G. Newlands, George Mortimer Pullman, and Matthew Stanley Quay. Open to research. Biographer and publisher. Died circa 1930. Collection material in English. Finding aid available in the Library of Congress Manuscript Reading Room and at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms009035 Chickering, Charles F 1827-1891 Corcoran, W. W. (William Wilson) 1798-1888 Currier, Moody 1806-1898 Du Pont, H. A. (Henry Algernon) 1838-1926 Eddy, Mary Baker 1821-1910 Emerson, Isaac E. (Isaac Edward) 1859-1931 Fairbanks, Charles W. (Charles Warren) 1852-1918 Field, Marshall 1834-1906 Fleischmann, Julius 1872-1925 Grant, Ulysses S 1852-1929 Guggenheim, Solomon R. (Solomon Robert) 1861-1949 Guggenheim, William 1868-1941 Hale, Edward Everett 1822-1909 Hanna, Marcus Alonzo 1837-1904 Hershey, David N 1818- Heurich, Christian 1842-1945 Huntington, Henry Edwards 1850-1927 Kellogg, Charles 1825-1892 Knowles, Henry Miles 1850-1903 Lamont, Daniel Scott 1851-1905 Lippincott, Craige 1846-1911 Longworth, Nicholas 1869-1931 McCormick, Cyrus Hall 1809-1884 Mills, Darius O. (Darius Ogden) 1825-1910 Morgan, J. Pierpont (John Pierpont) 1837-1913 Morton, Levi P. (Levi Parsons) 1824-1920 Muhlhauser, Gottlieb 1836- Newlands, Francis G. (Francis Griffith) 1848-1917 Pullman, George Mortimer 1831-1897 Quay, Matthew Stanley 1833-1904 Panama-Pacific International Exposition (1915 : San Francisco, Calif.) Capitalists and financiers Biography Directories Exhibitions California San Francisco Philanthropists United States Biography Politicians United States Biography Presidents United States Biography Publishers and publishing United States Middletown (R.I.) History Biographers Publishers Grosvenor, Charles Henry, 1833-1917 National Biographical Society (Washington, D.C.) mm 81058594 hdl:loc.mss/eadmss.ms009035 hdl:loc.mss/eadmss.ms009035.3 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms009035 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms009035.3 Open to research. DLC 820107 20260227111709.0 mm 81058594