| | Manuscript Collection | Requires cookie* | | 1 | Title: | Benjamin Franklin Stickney Papers
| | | | Creator: | Stickney, Benjamin Franklin | | | | Dates: | 1788-1892 | | | | Abstract: | Benjamin Franklin Stickney (1775-1857) was a resident of New Hampshire, Fort Wayne, Indiana, and Toledo, Ohio, and postmaster and agent for Indian affairs Northwest of the Ohio River, Port Lawrence, Michigan Territory. The collection consists of primarily correspondence of Stickney. Includes letters from Lewis Bond, J.L. Comstock, Paul Hamilton (U.S. Secretary of the Navy), Henry Hart, Samuel Mitchill, Anthony Shane, Amos Spafford, Caleb Stark, and Two Stickney, and a declaration to the Delaware Tribe (1812) by William Henry Harrison, Governor of the Indiana Territory. | | | | Call #: | MS 3450 | | | | Extent: | 0.10 linear feet (1 container) | | | | Subjects: | Stickney, Benjamin Franklin, 1775-1857. | Indian agents -- Northwest, Old. | Indians of North America -- Northwest, Old. | Indians of North America -- Government relations. | Delaware Indians -- Government relations.
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| Manuscript Collection | Requires cookie* | | 2 | Title: | Elisha Whittlesey Papers
| | | | Creator: | Whittlesey, Elisha | | | | Dates: | 1769-1869 | | | | Abstract: | Elisha Whittlesey (1783-1863) was a lawyer, United States Representative from Ohio (1822-1838), and public official. The collection consists of correspondence, legal papers, receipts, account ledgers, memoranda, drafts of legislation, and land deeds. The Elisha Whittlesey Papers deal with his career as a member of the United States Congress for sixteen years, comptroller of the United States Treasury for eight years, and Auditor of the Post Office Department for two years. His voluminous correspondence involves a large number of men prominent in national, late, and local affairs, particularly the Whig Party, American Colonization Society, the American Bible Society, and the development of the canals, rivers, harbors, railroads, and banks of northern Ohio and the Western Reserve. His mass of legal papers deals with the practice of his law office in Canfield, Ohio, his large holdings of land in the Western Reserve, Firelands, and the Maumee Valley. His wife and family occupy another prominent place in his correspondence, and he also had an interest in agricultural problems and served in the War of 1812. | | | | Call #: | MS 1200 | | | | Extent: | 33.20 linear feet (83 containers) | | | | Subjects: | Whittlesey, Elisha, 1783-1863. | American Bible Society. | American Colonization Society. | African Americans -- Colonization. | Banks and banking -- Ohio. | Canals -- Ohio. | Harbors -- Ohio. | Indians of North America -- Government relations. | Postal service -- United States. | Railroads -- United States. | Antislavery movements -- United States. | Western Reserve (Ohio) -- History -- Sources. | Ohio -- History -- 1787-1865 -- Sources. | Ohio -- Politics and government -- 1787-1865. | United States -- History -- 1783-1865 -- Sources. | United States -- Politics and government -- 1783-1865.
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| Manuscript Collection | Requires cookie* | | 3 | Title: | James Duane Doty Papers
| | | | Creator: | Doty, James Duane | | | | Dates: | 1809-1859 | | | | Abstract: | James Duane Doty (1799-1865) as a judge (Michigan Supreme Court), Wisconsin Territorial Governor, land speculator, and United States Representative from Wisconsin. The collection consists of correspondence, deeds and lists of lots pertaining to land in Menasha, Milwaukee, Green Bay, and the Fox River settlements in Wisconsin, and legal opinions concerning Indian matters. | | | | Call #: | MS 1090 | | | | Extent: | 0.40 linear feet (1 container) | | | | Subjects: | Doty, James Duane, 1799-1865. | Deeds -- Wisconsin. | Real property -- Wisconsin. | Indians of North America -- Government relations. | Indians of North America -- Michigan. | Judicial opinions -- Michigan. | Wisconsin -- History -- To 1848 -- Sources.
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