Finding-Aid for the Walter H. Cummings Collection (WTU00175)


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TABLE OF CONTENTS

Descriptive Summary

Restrictions

Administrative Information

Collection Outline


Collection Outline

Autograph Book 1872: March 26-1873.

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Descriptive Summary

Creator: Cummings , Walter H. , Autograph Collection
Title: Collection
Identification: WTU00175

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Restrictions

Collection is open to research.

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Administrative Information

Sources

Unknown.

Processing Information

Processing: October, 1969, by JS

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Autograph Book 1872: March 26-1873.

Autograph book containing autographs and correspondence of prominent figures in the social and political life of the United States during 1872-1873. Inscribed on the flyleaf `Walter H. Cummings Book, 1872. Collection of Autographs.'
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Adams, Charles Francis, 1835-1915, Civic leader, historian 4
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Agassiz, Jean Louis Rodolphe, 1807-1873, Zoologist 48
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Anthony, Susan Brownell, 1820-1906, Reformer 22
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Astor, John Jacob, 1822-1890, Financier 19
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Babcock, Orville E., 1835-1884, Engineer, soldier 15
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Babet, Hiram H. (?) laid in end of book
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Banks, Nathaniel Prentiss, 1816-1894, Governor of Mass. 2
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Barnum, Phineas Taylor, 1810-1891, Creator of `The greatest show on earth' 19
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Bartles, Benjamin F. (?) 2
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Beecher, Mrs. H. [Eunice White (Bullard)], 1813-1897, Author 24
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Belknap, William Worth, 1829-1890, Secretary of War 10
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Belmont, August, 1816-1890, Banker, diplomat 33
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Bergh, Henry, 1811-1888, Humanitarian 29
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Blaine, James Gillespie, 1830-1893, Statesman 15
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Bowen, Henry Chandler, 1813-1896, Publisher, editor 16
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Brown, Benjamin Gratz, 1826- 1885, Governor of Missouri 13
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Brown, Olympia, 1835-1926, Feminist 14
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Bryant, William Cullen, 1794-1878, Poet, editor 14
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Callyer, Robert 24
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Casserly, William 14
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Chapin, Edwin Hubbell, 1814-1880 24
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Chase, Salmon Portland, 1808-1873, cabinet officer. 5
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Church, S.E. 10
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Claflin, Emmie C. 20
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Clemens, Samuel Langhorne: Mark Twain, 1835-1910. 11
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Colfax, Grhaym (?) 5
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Conkling, Roscoe, 1823-1888, Senator 7
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Cooke, Jay, 1821-1905, Financier 9
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Cooper, Peter, 1791-1883, Manufacturer 15
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Corcoran, Willaim Wilson, 1798-1888, Banker 44
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Cornell, Ezra 1807-1874, Financier back cover
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Cox, Jacob Dolson 1828-1900, Gov. of Ohio, Sec. of the Interior 44
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Creswell, John Angel James, 1828-1891, Postmaster general 11
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Curtis, George William, 1824-1892, Author, orator 12
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Cushman, Charlotte [Saunders] 1816-1876, Actress 21
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Dana, Charles Anderson, 1819-1897, Newspaper editor 17
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Davis, David, 1815-1886, Jurist 38
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Davis, Jefferson, 1808-1889, President of the Confederacy 17
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Davis, Mary Evelyn Moore, 1852-1909, Author 23
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Dawes, Henry Laurens, 1816-1903, Senator 18
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Delano, Columbus, 1809-1896, Sec. of the Interior, Congressman from Ohio (?) 3
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Dickinson, Anna B. (?) 20, 42, 43
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Dix, John Adams, 1798-1879, Governor of New York 6
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Douglass, Frederick, 1817? - 1895, Abolitionist, journalist 10
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d'Pres, James (?) 50
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Duncan, Blanton 49
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Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 1803-1882, Essayist, poet 12
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Farman Elbert Eli, 1831-1911, Jurist diplomat 25
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Field, Kate [Mary Katherine Kemmle] 1838-1896, Journalist, author 20
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Fillmore, Millard, 1800-1874, Thirteenth president 5
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Fish, Hamilton, 1808-1893, Statesman 3
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Fiske, Severance (?) 14
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Fletcher, Matilda, Author 20
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Fletcher, S.J. Pastor Church of the Messiah 27
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Garrison, William Lloyd, 1805-1879, Reformer 8
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Geary, John White, 1819-1873, Gov. of Penn., Terr. Gov. of Kansas 18
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Gould, Jay, 1836-1892, Financier 18
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Grant, Frederick Dent, 1850-1912 1
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Grant, I.R. (?) 19
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Greeley, Horace, 1811-1872, Editor 7, 31
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Hale, Edward Everett, 1822-1909, Author, Unitarian minister 35
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Hall, Abraham Oakey, 1826-1898, Journalist 17
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Hamlin, Hannibal, 1809-1891, Vice President, U.S. Senator 15
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Hartranft, John Frederick, 1820-1889, Politician, soldier 18
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Havemeyer, William Frederick, 1804-1874, Mayor of N.Y. 4
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Hawley, Hoseph Rosewell, 1826-1905, Editor, senator, soldier 6
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Hayes, William Shakespeare, 1837-1907, Ballad writer, composer 40
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Henderstone, A (?) 25
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Higginson, Thomas Wentworth, 1823-1911, Reformer, soldier, author 19
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Hilton, Theodore (?) 46
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Hoffman, John Thompson, 1828-1888, Mayor and Governor of N.Y. 16
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Holland, Josiah Gilbert, 1819-1881, Author 35
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Hooker, Isabella Beecher, 1822-1907, Reformer, women's rights advocate 20
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Kellogg, Clara Louise, 1842-1916, Dramatic soprano 23
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Kernan, Francis, 1816-1892, Lawyer, Dem. politician 48
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Kilpatrick, Hugh Judson, 1836-1881, Soldier, diplomat (?) 17
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Locke, David Ross [Petroleum V. Nasby] 1833-1888, political satirist 19
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Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth, 1807-1882, poet 11
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Longstreet, James, 1821-1882, Soldier 48
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McCormick, Cyrus Hall, 1809-1884, Inventor, manufacturer 14
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McDowell, Irvin, 1818-1885, Soldier 4
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Meade, George Gordon, 1815-1872, Soldier, victor at Gettysburg 15
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Meiggs, Henry, 1811-1877, Builder of South American Railroads 47
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Morgan, Edwin Denison, 1811-1883, Governor of New York 37
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Morgan, Midy 21
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Mosby, John Singleton, 1833-1916, Confederate ranger 28
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Mott, Lucretia Coffin, 1793-1880, Reformer, Preacher, Society of Friends 21
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Muller, D.H. 26
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Nelson, Samuel, 1792-1873, Jurist 15
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Nast, Thomas, 1840-1902, Cartoonist 11
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O'Conor, Charles, 1804-1884, Lawyer 17
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Parton, James, 1822-1891, Biographer 39
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Phelps, Elizabeth Stuart [Ward, Elizabeth Stuart Phelps] 1844-1911 21
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Pierrepont, Edwards, 1817-1892, Lawyer, Attorney general 33
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Pomeroy, Marcus Mills, 1833-1896, Newspaper ed. and publisher 17
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Porter, David Dixon, 1813-1891, Naval officer 41
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Pringle, Benjamin, 1807-1887, Rep. of New York 18
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Reid, Whitelaw, 1837-1912, Journalist diplomat 30
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Richardson, Willaim Adams, 1821-1896, Secretary of the treasury 29
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Robertson, George, 1790-1874, Congressman from Kentucky (?) 10
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Saxe, John Godfrey, 1816-1887, Poet (?) 46
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Schurz, Carl, 1829-1906, Minister to Spain 13
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Seward, William Henry, 1801-1872, Statesman 7, 12
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Seymour, Horatio, 1810-1886, Governor of N.Y. 36
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Sherman, William Tecumseh, 1820-1891, Union general 1
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Simpson, Matthew, 1811-1884, Bishop (?) 25
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Sinclair, Samuel, Financier(?) 46
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Smith, Gerrit, 1797-1874, Reformer 9
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Stephens, Alexander Hamilton, 1812-1883, Confederate Vice President 13, 17
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Sumner, Charles, 1811-1874, U.S. Senator 29, 36
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Talmage, Thomas DeWitt, 1832-1902, Clergyman, editor 36
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Taylor, Miles, Rep. of Louisiana 36
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Tren, T. (?) 32
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Trumbull, Lyman, 1813-1896, Jurist, U.S. Senator 13
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Vanderbilt, Cornelius (?) 45
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Van Horn, Burt 45
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Walker, Mary Edwards M.D. Women's rights advocate 24
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Watts, H (?) 5
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Weed, Thurlow, 1797-1882, Politician and journalist 7
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Wells, Gideaon, 1802-1878, Secretary of the Navy 26
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Williams, George Henry, 1820-1910, Attorney Gen. Senator from Oregon 3
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Wilson, Henry, 1812-1875, Vice president, U.S. Senator Mass. 7
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Winthrop, Robert C. 1809-1894, Senator from Mass. 38
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Wise, Henry Alexander, 1806-1876, Gov. of Virginia 34
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Woodhull, Victoria Caflin, 1838-1927, Reformer 23
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Twenty-three other signatures could not be identified.

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