| | Manuscript Collection | Requires cookie* | | 1 | 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* | | 2 | Title: | Darius Lyman Family Papers
| | | | Creator: | Lyman, Darius Family | | | | Dates: | 1805-1922 | | | | Abstract: | Darius Lyman (1789-1867) was a lawyer who came to Ravenna, Ohio, from Connecticut in 1814. He became a state senator and a Portage County judge. His son, Darius Jr., was Chief of the Navigation Division of the United States Treasury Department. His grandson, Henry D. Lyman, was Second Assistant Postmaster General of the United States. John P. Converse was the father-in-law of Darius Lyman, Jr. He came to Parkman, Ohio from Vermont in 1816 and operated several mills with his wife's brother, Robert B. Parkman. Parkman came to Ohio from New York in 1801. He settled Parkman, Ohio and served as its postmaster. He was also a Geauga County Prosecutor (1806-1817) and Probate Judge (1819). The collection consists of correspondence, letter copies, legal documents, estate documents, indentures, land surveys, accounts, receipts, promissory notes, literary works, and personal journals of Robert B. Parkman, John P. Converse, Darius Lyman, Darius Lyman Jr., and Henry Lyman. | | | | Call #: | MS 3364 | | | | Extent: | 5.40 linear feet (14 containers) | | | | Subjects: | Lyman family. | Converse family. | Parkman family. | Lyman, Darius, 1789-1867. | Western Reserve College (1826-1882) | Clinton Line Railroad. | Judges -- Ohio -- Miscellanea. | Mills and mill work -- Ohio -- Parkman. | Postal service -- United States. | Temperance. | Portage County (Ohio) -- Surveys. | Ohio -- Politics and government.
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