History of the Federal Judiciary


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Research Collections

Chase, Salmon Portland

Supreme Court of the United States, Chief Justice (1864-1873)

Cincinnati Historical Society
Cincinnati, Ohio

Correspondence, 1849-1873.
210 items; finding aid; political correspondence.

Dartmouth College
Hanover, N.H.

Letters, 1825-1873.
ca. 50 items; letters Chase wrote concerning religious life while a student at Dartmouth College; Ohio and national politics (1840-1868); the military government of Louisiana (1863-1864); and miscellaneous financial matters.

Library of Congress
Washington, D.C.

Papers, 1755-1898.
14.75 ft. (12,500 items); finding aid; correspondence, letter books, memoranda, notes, journals, diaries, account books, commonplace books, maps, a scrapbook, financial papers, and other material.

Ohio Historical Society
Columbus, Ohio

Papers, 1825-1871.
ca. 2 ft.; finding aid; correspondence and papers chiefly from Chase?s tenure as governor of Ohio.

Historical Society of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, Pa.

Papers, 1824-1881.
ca. 15,000 items; collection contains diaries, journals, correspondence, letter books, memoranda, speeches, lectures, legal opinions, official documents, biographical material, and other papers.

Brown University
John Hay Archives
Providence, R.I.

McLellan-Lincoln collection, 1789-1939; 1,678 items; correspondence.

Eli Thayer papers, 1841-1898; 1,000 items; correspondence.

Chicago Historical Society
Chicago, Ill.

James Franklin Aldrich papers, 1841-1932; ca. 400 items; finding aid; correspondence.

Willard Leroy King, collector, David Davis papers, 1815-1921; 9 ft. (ca. 15,000 items); finding aid; correspondence.

Cincinnati Historical Society
Cincinnati, Ohio

Benjamin Parham Aydelott papers, 1818-1879; 197 items; finding aid; correspondence.

Oran Follett papers, 1820-1897; 2 ft.; finding aid; correspondence.

Frank Johnston Jones papers, 1845, 1941; 165 items and 3 boxes; correspondence.

Alexander Long papers, 1837-1906; 4,050 items; finding aid; correspondence.

Hiram Powers correspondence, 1827-1873; 773 items; finding aid; correspondence.

Hagley Museum and Library
Wilmington, Del.

The P. S. du Pont office collection, 1749-1939; 14.3 linear ft.; correspondence.

Harvard University
Houghton Library
Cambridge, Mass.

Charles Sumner papers, 1829-1895; 46 boxes and 16 vols.; finding aid; restricted; correspondence; microfilm copy available.

Harvard University School of Business
Baker Library
Boston, Mass.

George Simmons Coe business papers, 1861-1896; 5 vols.; finding aid; restricted; correspondence.

Rutherford B. Hayes Presidential Center
Fremont, Ohio

Quintus Flaminius Atkins papers, 1805-1854; 0.25 ft.; correspondence.

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Illinois State Historical Survey
Urbana, Ill.

Flagg family papers, 1819-1877, 1908; 106 items; correspondence.

Indiana State Library
Indianapolis, Ind.

George Washington Julian papers, 1789-1902; 2.25 linear ft. (4 vols. and 4 boxes); correspondence.

Indiana University
Bloomington, Ind.

Hamilton Smith papers, 1779-1874; 717 items; correspondence.

Library of Congress
Washington, D.C.

Burton Norvell Harrison family papers, 1812-1926; 21 ft. (ca. 18,600 items); finding aid; correspondence.

Andrew Johnson papers, 1814-1947; 67 ft. (ca. 40,000 items); finding aid; correspondence.

Alexander Sankey Latty papers, 1851-1890; 60 items; finding aid; correspondence.

Abraham Lincoln papers, 1774-1916; 42,175 items; finding aid; correspondence.

John McLean papers, 1817-1861; 8 linear ft. (3,500 items); finding aid; correspondence.

Justin Smith Morrill papers, 1825-1923; 22 ft. (10,600 items); finding aid; correspondence.

Jacob William Schuckers papers, 1862-1899; 1 ft. (200 items); finding aid; collection includes correspondence, notes, and miscellaneous papers of Chase?s private secretary.

Alexander Robey Shepard papers, 1776-1945; 7.2 linear ft. (1,950 items); finding aid; political correspondence.

John Sherman papers, 1836-1900; 133 ft. (ca. 111,000 items); correspondence.

Edwin McMasters Stanton papers, 1818-1921; 10 ft. (7,600 items); finding aid; correspondence.

Thaddeus Stevens papers, 1813-1869; 4,750 items; correspondence.

Lyman Trumbull papers, 1843-1894; 13 ft. (ca. 4,500 items); finding aid; correspondence.

John Curtiss Underwood papers, 1856-1898; 2 containers (165 items); correspondence.

Martin Van Buren papers, 1787-1910; 18 linear ft. (ca. 6,000 items); finding aid; correspondence.

Benjamin Franklin Wade papers, 1832-1881; 3,522 items; finding aid; correspondence.

Elihu Benjamin Washburne papers, 1829-1882; 31 ft. (37,000 items); finding aid; correspondence.

Gideon Welles papers, 1777-1911; 30 ft. (ca. 15,000 items); finding aid; correspondence.

Elizur Wright papers, 1793-1935; 8 linear ft. (5,300 items); finding aid; correspondence.

John Russell Young papers, 1843-1898; 28,000 items; finding aid; correspondence.

University of Maine
Orono, Me.

Hannibal Hamlin papers, 1828-1891; 11 ft.; finding aid; correspondence.

James Sheperd Pike papers, 1850-1880; 7 ft.; finding aid; correspondence.

Maryland Historical Society
Baltimore, Md.

William Wirt papers, 1784-1864; 9 ft.; finding aid; correspondence; microfilm copy
available at Yale University.

Massachusetts Historical Society
Boston, Mass.

Lafayette Sabine Foster papers, 1811-1881; 1 box; correspondence.

Theodore Parker papers, 1826-1862; 1 box and 14 vols.; finding aid; correspondence.

William Schouler papers, 1840-1872; 1 vol. and 2 boxes; correspondence.

University of Michigan
Bentley Historical Library
Ann Arbor, Mich.

Thomas McIntyre Cooley papers, 1850-1898; 7 ft. and 16 vols.; finding aid; correspondence.

Alpheus Felch papers, 1817-1896; 6 linear ft. and 6 vols.; finding aid; correspondence.

University of Michigan
Transportation Library
Ann Arbor, Mich.

Charles Ellet papers, 1827-1926; ca. 18,000 items; correspondence.

Minnesota Historical Society
St. Paul, Minn.

Republican Party records, 1857-1940; 1 box; correspondence.

Mississippi State Department of Archives and History
Jackson, Miss.

Robert James Walker papers, 1821-1869; 72 items; correspondence.

Missouri Historical Society
St. Louis, Mo.

William Greenleaf Elliot papers, 1841-1961; ca. 125 items; correspondence.

George R. Harrington papers, 1842-1908; ca. 1,000 items; correspondence.

Montgomery County Historical Society
Dayton, Ohio

Patterson family papers, 1780-1963; 5 ft. (ca. 3,000 items); correspondence.

New Hampshire Historical Society
Concord, N.H.

John Parker Hale papers, 1822-1885; 6 ft.; correspondence.

New Jersey Historical Society
Newark, N.J.

Peter Dumont Vroom papers, ca. 1820-1893; 20 ft.; correspondence.

Marcus Lawrence Ward papers, ca. 1693-1912; 16 ft.; finding aid; correspondence.

New York Public Library
New York, N.Y.

Louis Malesherbes Goldsborough papers, 1821-1873; 1 linear ft. (4 boxes); correspondence.

James Alexander Hamilton papers, ca. 1740-1867; ca. 1 linear ft.; restricted; correspondence.

New York State Library
Albany, N.Y.

Edwin Denison Morgan papers, 1830-1872; 50 cubic ft. (105 containers); finding aid; correspondence.

Newberry Library
Chicago, Ill.

Daniel Stevens Dickinson papers, 1799-1892; 164 items; finding aid; correspondence.

Ohio Historical Society
Columbus, Ohio

Lewis Davis Campbell correspondence, 1850-1877; 1 box; correspondence.

William Dennison papers, 1860-1861; 2 cubic ft.; correspondence.

Joshua Reed Giddings papers, 1821-1866; 2.5 cubic ft.; finding aid; restricted; correspondence.

Friedrich Hassaurek papers, 1849-1881; 2 cubic ft.; finding aid; correspondence.

Thomas D. Jones papers, 1839-1972; 0.5 cubic ft.; correspondence.

Edward Deering Mansfield papers, 1810-1878; ca. 180 items and 7 vols.; correspondence.

William L. McMillen papers, 1852-1896; 72 items; correspondence.

Pullan family papers, 1812-1914; 1.25 cubic ft.; correspondence.

Steele family papers, 1786-1889; 0.25 cubic ft.; correspondence.

Benjamin Tappan papers, 1795-1857; ca. 650 items; finding aid; correspondence.

Eli Todd Tappan family papers, 1826-1904; 2 cubic ft.; correspondence.

Joseph Vance papers, 1808-1838; 1 cubic ft.; correspondence.

Ohio State University
University Archives
Columbus, Ohio

Norton Strange Townshend papers, ca. 1835-1989; 0.5 cubic ft.; political correspondence.

Peabody Essex Museum
Salem, Mass.

Mary Abigail Dodge papers, 1834-1896; 0.5 linear ft. (1 box); finding aid; correspondence.

John Greenleaf Whittier papers, 1781-1922; 4.5 linear ft. (9 boxes); finding aid; correspondence.

Young Men?s Union (Salem, Mass.) papers, 1855-1880; 1.25 linear ft. (3 boxes); finding aid; correspondence.

Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission
Harrisburg, Pa.

Simon Cameron papers, 1816-1892; 17 items and 10 microfilm reels; finding aid; correspondence.

Historical Society of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, Pa.

James Moore Swank papers, 1785-1898; ca. 250 items; correspondence.

Stanford University
Stanford, Cal.

Rebecca Spring papers, ca. 1830-1900; 1 linear ft.; finding aid; correspondence.

Syracuse University
Department of Special Collections
Syracuse, N.Y.

Charles Baldwin Sedgwick papers, 1814-1891; 1.8 linear ft.; finding aid; correspondence.

University of Notre Dame
Notre Dame, Ind.

Orestes Augustus Brownson papers, 1823-1876; 9 linear ft.; correspondence.

Virginia Historical Society
Richmond, Va.

Claiborne family papers, 1803-1954; 1,060 items; correspondence.

Western Reserve Historical Society
Cleveland, Ohio

Jesse Baldwin papers, 1862-1881; 0.2 linear ft. (4 vols.); correspondence.

Emerson family papers, 1795-1904; ca. 2 ft.; correspondence.

William Pitt Fessenden papers, 1837-1869; ca. 1 ft.; finding aid; correspondence.

Albert Gallatin Riddle papers, 1835-1902; 2.6 linear ft.; correspondence.

State Historical Society of Wisconsin
Madison, Wis.

Moses M. Davis papers, 1849-1883; 0.2 cubic ft. (1 box); finding aid; correspondence.

Correspondence of Alexander and John L. Mitchell, 1859-1906; 0.4 cubic ft.; finding aid; correspondence.

John Fox Potter papers, 1767, 1810-1925; 1.1 cubic ft.; finding aid; correspondence.

Yale University
Sterling Memorial Library
New Haven, Conn.

Carrington family papers, 1749-1929; 3 linear ft. (8 boxes, 1 folio); finding aid; correspondence.

S. Griswold Flagg collection, 1825-1938; 1 linear ft. (2 boxes, 1 folio); finding aid; correspondence.

 

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