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040 _aDLC
_cDLC
_edacs
_dDLC
072 7 _aW
_2lcmd
100 1 _aCaton, John Dean,
_d1812-1895.
245 0 0 _aJohn Dean Caton papers,
_f1826-1947
_g(bulk 1826-1895).
300 _a9,500
_fitems.
300 _a33
_fcontainers.
300 _a13.2
_flinear feet.
506 0 _aOpen to research.
520 8 _aCorrespondence, speeches, draft of unpublished writings including an unpublished memoir, legal records, financial records, scrapbook, printed matter, and other papers relating primarily to Caton's activities as a businessman and lawyer in Chicago and as associate and chief justice of the Supreme Court of Illinois. Documents his work as chief stockholder and director of the Illinois and Mississippi Telegraph Company, Illinois Starch Company, Oneida Solar Salt Company, and other business enterprises; investor in western mines; traveler; and author writing about nature studies and Illinois judicial affairs.
520 8 _aCorrespondents include Thomas Basnett, Sidney Breese, Thomas D. Catlin, Seldon Churchill, W.C. Churchill, Ezra Cornell, Austin C. French, Melville Weston Fuller, George H. Gatiss, L. Howell, Josiah Macy's Sons, James F. Joy, Norman B. Judd, Joel A. Matheson, Henry O'Riley, Hiram Sibley, Nathan Smith, E.D.L. Sweet, Samuel Hubbel Treat, Lyman Trumbull, Pinkney Houston Walker, Horace White, Norman Williams, J.J.S. Wilson, and Caton family members including Caton's wife, Laura A. Caton, and his brother, William P. Caton.
545 0 _aBusinessman and jurist.
546 _aCollection material in English.
555 8 _aFinding aid available in the Library of Congress Manuscript Reading Room and at
_uhttp://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms011029
600 1 0 _aBasnett, Thomas
_vCorrespondence.
600 1 0 _aBreese, Sidney,
_d1800-1878
_vCorrespondence.
600 1 0 _aCatlin, Thomas D.
_vCorrespondence.
600 1 0 _aCaton, Laura A.
_vCorrespondence.
600 1 0 _aCaton, William P.
_vCorrespondence.
600 1 0 _aChurchill, Seldon
_vCorrespondence.
600 1 0 _aChurchill, W. C.
_vCorrespondence.
600 1 0 _aCornell, Ezra,
_d1807-1874
_vCorrespondence.
600 1 0 _aFrench, Austin C.
_vCorrespondence.
600 1 0 _aFuller, Melville Weston,
_d1833-1910
_vCorrespondence.
600 1 0 _aGatiss, George H.
_vCorrespondence.
600 1 0 _aHowell, L.
_vCorrespondence.
600 1 0 _aJoy, James F.
_q(James Frederick),
_d1810-1896
_vCorrespondence.
600 1 0 _aJudd, Norman B.
_q(Norman Buel),
_d1815-1878
_vCorrespondence.
600 1 0 _aMatheson, Joel A.
_vCorrespondence.
600 1 0 _aO'Riley, Henry,
_d1806-1886
_vCorrespondence.
600 1 0 _aSibley, Hiram,
_d1807-1888
_vCorrespondence.
600 1 0 _aSmith, Nathan
_vCorrespondence.
600 1 0 _aSweet, E. D. L.
_vCorrespondence.
600 1 0 _aTreat, Samuel Hubbel,
_d1811-1887
_vCorrespondence.
600 1 0 _aTrumbull, Lyman,
_d1813-1896
_vCorrespondence.
600 1 0 _aWalker, Pinkney Houston,
_d1815-1885
_vCorrespondence.
600 1 0 _aWhite, Horace,
_d1834-1916
_vCorrespondence.
600 1 0 _aWilliams, Norman
_vCorrespondence.
600 1 0 _aWilson, J. J. S.
_vCorrespondence.
610 1 0 _aIllinois.
_bSupreme Court.
610 2 0 _aIllinois and Mississippi Telegraph Company.
610 2 0 _aIllinois Starch Company.
610 2 0 _aJosiah Macy's Sons
_vCorrespondence.
610 2 0 _aOneida Solar Salt Company.
650 0 _aCourts
_zIllinois.
650 0 _aMines and mineral resources
_zWest (U.S.)
650 0 _aNature study.
650 0 _aPractice of law
_zIllinois
_zChicago.
650 0 _aTelegraph.
650 0 _aVoyages and travels.
651 0 _aIllinois
_xCommerce.
656 7 _aBusinessmen.
_2itoamc
656 7 _aJurists.
_2itoamc
856 4 _3Finding aid
_uhttp://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms011029
856 4 _3Finding aid (PDF)
_uhttp://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms011029.3
999 _c39775
_d39775