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100	1		_aHouston, William LePre.
245	0	0	_aWilliam LePre Houston family papers, _f1777-1936 _g(bulk 1890-1936).
300			_a4,000 _fitems.
300			_a23 _fcontainers plus _a2 _foversize.
300			_a9.2 _flinear feet.
351			_aArranged 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.
506	0		_aOpen to research.
520	8		_aCorrespondence, 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.
544			_3Issues, dating 1828 and 1829, of the Daily National Intelligencer and National Intelligencer _etransferred to _aLibrary of Congress Serial and Government Publications Division.
544			_3Some photographs _etransferred to _aLibrary of Congress Prints and Photographs Division.
545	0		_aWilliam LePre Houston (1870-1953), lawyer, and his son, Charles Hamilton Houston, also a lawyer.
546			_aCollection material in English, with French and Spanish.
555	8		_aFinding aid available in the Library of Congress Manuscript Reading Room and at _uhttp://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms010216.
600	1	0	_aDu Bois, W. E. B. _q(William Edward Burghardt), _d1868-1963 _vCorrespondence.
600	1	0	_aHastie, William, _d1904-1976 _vCorrespondence.
600	1	0	_aHays, Will H. _q(Will Harrison), _d1879-1954 _vCorrespondence.
600	1	0	_aHouston, G. David _vCorrespondence.
600	1	0	_aHouston, Margaret Gladys Moran _vCorrespondence.
600	1	0	_aHouston, Mary Ethel Hamilton _vCorrespondence.
600	1	0	_aJohnson, Mordecai W. _q(Mordecai Wyatt), _d1890-1976 _vCorrespondence.
600	1	0	_aMorris, Edward H. _vCorrespondence.
600	1	0	_aWashington, Booker T., _d1856-1915 _vCorrespondence.
600	1	0	_aWashington, George, _d1732-1799 _vAutographs.
600	1	0	_aWayne, Anthony, _d1745-1796 _vAutographs.
600	1	0	_aWoodson, Carter Godwin, _d1875-1950 _vCorrespondence.
600	3	0	_aHouston family.
610	1	0	_aUnited States. _bArmy _xHistory _yWorld War, 1914-1918.
610	2	0	_aAmherst College.
610	2	0	_aGrand United Order of Odd Fellows in America.
610	2	0	_aHarvard Law School.
610	2	0	_aRailway Men's International Benevolent Industrial Association.
610	2	0	_aUniversidad Central (Spain)
650		0	_aAfrican Americans.
650		0	_aLabor unions, Black _zUnited States.
650		0	_aPractice of law _zWashington (D.C.)
610	2	0	_aRepublican Party (U.S. : 1854- )
650		0	_aWorld War, 1914-1918 _zFrance.
656		7	_aLawyers. _2itoamc
700	1		_aHouston, Charles Hamilton, _d1895-1950. _tCharles Hamilton Houston papers. _f1871-1935.
856	4		_3Finding aid _uhttp://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms010216
856	4		_3Finding aid (PDF) _uhttp://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms010216.3
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