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1811-1917
(40 items)
Scope: Material in this collection was presented to William Keeney
Bixby's daughter, Mrs. I. A. Stevens. Though many of the letters and
autographs in the collection were solicited or purchased by Bixby,
later a Chairman of the American Car and Foundry Company, several
have specifically to do with his interests. For example, Jefferson
Davis’ letter to Bixby, regarded as a copperhead during the Civil
War, was a response to a solicitation for employment in the South,
to which Davis later responded by introducing young Bixby to the
Governor of Texas who found him a job on the International Great
Northern Railroad. Included in the collection are numerous literary
manuscripts
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