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Archives related to: Barlow, Samuel L. M. (Samuel Latham Mitchill), 1826-1889
| title | Samuel L.M. Barlow will copy, 1887-1913. | repository | University of North Carolina |
| description | Typescript copy of the will of Samuel L.M. Barlow of New York, written in 1877 and proved in 1889. The copy is dated dated 1913. A memorandum on the margin (written by Mrs. Watters of the Southern Historical Collection) connects this copy with property of the "Barlow Mine, Dahlonega, Georgia." Found in: Miscellaneous Ppaers Scope of collection The collection consists of single or small groupings of items arranged in units by provenance. Included are tax forms, records of accounts, slave lists and bills of sale, land patents, schedules of debt, wills, marriage licenses, naturalization papers, invitations, proclamations, commissions, sermons, speeches, and reminiscences, predominantly from North Carolina, Virginia, and other southern states. There is little correspondence. Preferred Citation [Identification of item], in the Miscellaneous Papers #517, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. |
| extent | 1 item |
| formats | Legal Papers |
| access | Library use only. |
| record link | http://www.lib.unc.edu/mss/inv/m/Misc.Papers.html |
| record source | http://search.lib.unc.edu/search?R=UNCb5583059 |
| updated | 03/16/2023 10:30:03 |
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| title | Henry Stevens papers, 1812-1935. | repository | William L. Clements Library |
| description | This collection is made up of correspondence, letter books, and transcriptions by rare book dealer and bibliographer Henry Stevens. The material primarily concerns his work obtaining books for prominent private collectors and libraries in the United States in the mid-19th century. |
| extent | 2 linear feet. |
| formats | Correspondence |
| access | The collection is open for research |
| record source | http://mirlyn.lib.umich.edu/Record/012551103/ |
| finding aid | Contact repository for further details |
| updated | 11/12/2014 11:30:16 |
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| title | Papers of Henry D. Bacon, ca. 1766-1906. | repository | The Huntington Library |
| description | The collection contains letters, documents, and a few account books related to the business activities of Henry Douglas Bacon. Subject matter includes banking methods in the 1850s; the failure of Page & Bacon and Page, Bacon & Co.; the financing of the Ohio and Mississippi Railroad; land transactions in Missouri and Illinois; mines and mining properties in the western United States; the wine and citrus industries in Southern California; the Los Angeles and San Gabriel Valley Railroad; the purchase, boundaries, and subdivision of the Marengo Ranch (now the city of South Pasadena, CA); the construction of the Raymond Hotel in Pasadena, CA. Significant persons represented in the collection include: Henry Douglas Bacon, Julia Ann Page Bacon, Samuel Latham Mitchell Barlow, William Tell Coleman, Samuel Gaty, Daniel Dearborn Page, Francis W. Page, Henry Starr, and Thomas M. Yerkes. Biog. Note Henry Douglas Bacon was a California financier who entered the retail business in St. Louis in 1835 and later joined his wealthy father-in-law in the banking firm of Page & Bacon. In 1849 he and his partners formed Page, Bacon & Co., an express firm in San Francisco, which became primarily a banking concern. The company's failure in 1855 served as a prelude to the San Francisco crash of 1855. Bacon invested in the Ohio & Mississippi Railroad, numerous mining ventures, and the Marengo Ranch in Southern California. |
| extent | 42 boxes |
| formats | Correspondence Financial Records Business Papers |
| access | Contact repository for further details. |
| record link | http://oac4.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/tf6d5nb1qm/ |
| bibliography | Guide to American historical manuscripts in the Huntington Library (San Marino, Calif. : H. E. Huntington Library and Art Gallery, 1979). |
| record source | http://catalog.huntington.org/record=b1552497~S0 |
| finding aid | Unpublished finding aid available in repository. An electronic version is available on the website of Online Archives of California (OAC). Click on the link in this record to view the finding aid. |
| acquisition information | Edwin Grabhorn, Purchase, January 1945. Charles Yale's Bookshop, Purchase, March 1944 |
| updated | 11/12/2014 11:30:16 |
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| title | Papers of Samuel L. M. Barlow, 1776-1905 (bulk 1885-1889) | repository | The Huntington Library |
| description | Personal and professional papers of Samuel L. M. Barlow. The collection contains letters (including 53 tissue copy letter books), documents, records, and manuscripts and documents Barlow's legal, business, and political career, and his cultural and social pursuits. Barlow's legal and business papers constitute the bulk of the collection and cover 1855-1889. This portion of the collection deals with financing, building and management of railroads -- both Eastern and Western divisions of the Ohio and Mississippi, the Atlantic & Great Western, the Atlantic, Missisippi & Ohio, the Little Miami, the Columbus and Xenia, the Erie, and the New York, Erie & Western; Barlow's lobbying on behalf of Texas and Pacific Railroad Company and the Pacific Mail Steamship Company; his involvement the affairs of the Tehuantepec railroad route in Mexico, mining promotions and operations, including the notorious Arizona diamond hoax; land speculation (farm lands in Illinois, Iowa, and Ohio and urban properties in St. Louis, Mo.); his patronage of the New York subway and telephone enterprises, and his part ownership of the New York World. Political and military correspondence and manuscripts cover Barlow's involvement in Democratic politics at both national and state levels, that started in 1856 and continued until his death. The papers deal with Barlow's role in the nomination of James Buchanan for President (1856) and his administration; Democratic National Convention at Charleston (1860); George McClellan's presidential bid, the National Union Club, congressional elections, Tilden, Hancock, and Cleveland campaigns (1876-1886). This portion of the collection also contains reports from the Eastern theatre of the Civil War that Barlow received from his agents in the field. Among the correspondents are William T. Sherman, and T.J. Barnett, a minor official at the Department of the Interior and the Washington correspondent of the New York Journal of commerce, who provided an insight into Lincoln's White House. Also included are items reflecting Barlow's role in social and cultural life of New York -- his friendship with William Cullen Bryant and Bret Harte, patronage of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the New York Academy of Music, and the New York Historical Society, his collections of colonial Americana and rare books, etc. Correspondents include William Henry Aspinwall, Henry Douglas Bacon, T.J. Barnett, James Asheton Bayard, Jr., August Belmont, Judah Philip Benjamin, Montgomery Blair, William Montague Browne, Benjamin Franklin Butler, Roscoe Conkling, George Ticknor Curtis, John Henry Dillon, William Maxwell Evarts, Henry Harrisse, Ben Holladay, Hugh Judge Jewett, Clarence King, George Brinton McClellan, James McHenry, Manton Malon Marble, Thomas Alexander Scott, Horatio Seymour, William Davis Shipman, John Slidell, Richard Taylor, William Henry Trescott, Morrison Remnick Waite, Samuel Ward. Biog. Note Samuel Latham Mitchill Barlow, prominent corporation lawyer and backstage Democrat. Co-founder of the law firm of Bowdoin, Larocque, and Barlow in 1852, he specialized in corporate law and management, particularly in railroads, mining, land, and utilities, and was a part owner of the New York World. Barlow represented the English Shareholders Association in a successful attack on the corrupt management of the Erie Railroad in 1872 and was directly responsible for the ouster of Jay Gould from the board of directors of that company. A lifelong Democrat despite his increasing disaffection after 1870, Barlow played a pivotal role in the nomination and presidential campaign of James Buchanan, served as advisor to Buchanan's administration, worked unsuccessfully to restore party's unity at the Charleston Convention of 1860, and engineered the 1864 presidential candidacy of General George McClellan, a close personal friend. A notable collector of early Americana and early printed editions of European Renaissance literature, Barlow also played an active role in the social and cultural life of New York. He entertained lavishly at his Madison Avenue home and his Long Island estate, and was co-founder of the Manhattan Club and patron of museums and historical societies. |
| extent | 211 boxes |
| formats | Personal Papers Business Papers Legal Papers Correspondence Ephemera |
| bibliography | Albert V. House, "The Samuel Latham Mitchill Barlow papers in the Huntington Library," Huntington Library quarterly, 28, no. 4 (August, 1965): 341-352. |
| record source | http://catalog.huntington.org/record=b1630138~S0 |
| finding aid | The unpublished summary report is filed at the Manuscripts Dept. The report provides only a general overview of the collection's content and cannot be used as a finding aid. |
| acquisition information | Purchased from Samuel L. M. Barlow (grandson, 1892-1982) through Maury A. Bromson Associates, 1960. |
| updated | 11/12/2014 11:30:16 |
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| title | Papers of the Lower California Company, 1871-1872. | repository | The Huntington Library |
| description | This small group of items includes nine letters between Drake Dekay, Samuel L. M. Barlow, Benjamin F. Butler, Congressman Caleb Cushing, and Secretary of State Hamilton Fish. The letters discuss the formation of the Lower California Company, the colonizing of the land, and its problems with Mexico. There is also a copy of the minutes of the meeting of the company's Executive Committee on July 5, 1871. There are also four printed general orders given by the company regarding Captain Isham, a survey of the land, a ban on the sale of alcohol, and forbidding anybody from collecting "Orchilla." Biographical Note The Lower California Company was created in 1864 when Jacob P. Leese obtained a colonization grant from the Mexican government. In May 1867, the Lower California Company was incorporated by the State of New York. Among the founding associates were General Benjamin F. Butler, who became president of the company, Drake Dekay was secretary, and Samuel L. J. Barlow was counsel, and Captain J. B. Isham was designated general superintendent. The headquarters of the company was located at Magdalena. The Mexican government nullified the grant shortly after in July 1871, but the company ignored the order to suspend colonization and evacuate, whereupon the Mexican government sent troops to enforce its decree. There occurred a military confrontation between the company's local staff and the Mexican troops, which resulted in the colony being forcibly closed down. Drake Dekay had by this time become U.S. Consul at Magdelena and he sought to obtain official American intervention "to protect American lives and property." |
| extent | 14 items |
| formats | Business Papers Correspondence Notes |
| access | Please contact Curator of Rare Books for further information about these items. |
| record source | http://catalog.huntington.org/record=b1806219~S0 |
| acquisition information | Purchased from Western Hemisphere, December 23, 1976. |
| updated | 11/12/2014 11:30:16 |
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