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Summary Information
Walter H. Cummings Collection
Cummings , Walter H. , Autograph Collection
WTU00175
Language: English
Access and Use:
Unknown.
Collection is open to research.
Processing: October, 1969, by JS
Contents List
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Autograph Book 1872: March
26-1873.
Scope: Autograph book containing autographs and correspondence of prominent figures
in the social and political life of the United States during 1872-1873.
Inscribed on the flyleaf `Walter H. Cummings Book, 1872. Collection of Autographs.'
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Adams, Charles Francis, 1835-1915, Civic leader,
historian
(4) |
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Agassiz, Jean Louis Rodolphe, 1807-1873, Zoologist
(48) |
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Anthony, Susan Brownell, 1820-1906, Reformer
(22) |
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Astor, John Jacob, 1822-1890, Financier
(19) |
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Babcock, Orville E., 1835-1884, Engineer, soldier
(15) |
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Babet, Hiram H. (?)
(laid in end of book) |
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Banks, Nathaniel Prentiss, 1816-1894, Governor of
Mass.
(2) |
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Barnum, Phineas Taylor, 1810-1891, Creator of `The greatest show
on earth'
(19) |
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Bartles, Benjamin F. (?)
(2) |
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Beecher, Mrs. H. [Eunice White (Bullard)], 1813-1897,
Author
(24) |
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Belknap, William Worth, 1829-1890, Secretary of War
(10) |
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Belmont, August, 1816-1890, Banker, diplomat
(33) |
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Bergh, Henry, 1811-1888, Humanitarian
(29) |
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Blaine, James Gillespie, 1830-1893, Statesman
(15) |
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Bowen, Henry Chandler, 1813-1896, Publisher, editor
(16) |
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Brown, Benjamin Gratz, 1826- 1885, Governor of
Missouri
(13) |
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Brown, Olympia, 1835-1926, Feminist
(14) |
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Bryant, William Cullen, 1794-1878, Poet, editor
(14) |
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Callyer, Robert
(24) |
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Casserly, William
(14) |
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Chapin, Edwin Hubbell, 1814-1880
(24) |
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Chase, Salmon Portland, 1808-1873, cabinet officer.
(5) |
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Church, S.E.
(10) |
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Claflin, Emmie C.
(20) |
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Clemens, Samuel Langhorne: Mark Twain, 1835-1910.
(11) |
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Colfax, Grhaym (?)
(5) |
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Conkling, Roscoe, 1823-1888, Senator
(7) |
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Cooke, Jay, 1821-1905, Financier
(9) |
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Cooper, Peter, 1791-1883, Manufacturer
(15) |
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Corcoran, Willaim Wilson, 1798-1888, Banker
(44) |
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Cornell, Ezra 1807-1874, Financier
(back cover) |
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Cox, Jacob Dolson 1828-1900, Gov. of Ohio, Sec. of the
Interior
(44) |
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Creswell, John Angel James, 1828-1891, Postmaster
general
(11) |
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Curtis, George William, 1824-1892, Author, orator
(12) |
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Cushman, Charlotte [Saunders] 1816-1876, Actress
(21) |
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Dana, Charles Anderson, 1819-1897, Newspaper editor
(17) |
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Davis, David, 1815-1886, Jurist
(38) |
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Davis, Jefferson, 1808-1889, President of the
Confederacy
(17) |
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Davis, Mary Evelyn Moore, 1852-1909, Author
(23) |
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Dawes, Henry Laurens, 1816-1903, Senator
(18) |
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Delano, Columbus, 1809-1896, Sec. of the Interior, Congressman
from Ohio (?)
(3) |
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Dickinson, Anna B. (?)
(20, 42, 43) |
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Dix, John Adams, 1798-1879, Governor of New York
(6) |
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Douglass, Frederick, 1817? - 1895, Abolitionist,
journalist
(10) |
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d'Pres, James (?)
(50) |
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Duncan, Blanton
(49) |
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Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 1803-1882, Essayist, poet
(12) |
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Farman Elbert Eli, 1831-1911, Jurist diplomat
(25) |
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Field, Kate [Mary Katherine Kemmle] 1838-1896, Journalist,
author
(20) |
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Fillmore, Millard, 1800-1874, Thirteenth president
(5) |
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Fish, Hamilton, 1808-1893, Statesman
(3) |
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Fiske, Severance (?)
(14) |
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Fletcher, Matilda, Author
(20) |
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Fletcher, S.J. Pastor Church of the Messiah
(27) |
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Garrison, William Lloyd, 1805-1879, Reformer
(8) |
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Geary, John White, 1819-1873, Gov. of Penn., Terr. Gov. of
Kansas
(18) |
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Gould, Jay, 1836-1892, Financier
(18) |
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Grant, Frederick Dent, 1850-1912
(1) |
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Grant, I.R. (?)
(19) |
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Greeley, Horace, 1811-1872, Editor
(7, 31) |
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Hale, Edward Everett, 1822-1909, Author, Unitarian
minister
(35) |
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Hall, Abraham Oakey, 1826-1898, Journalist
(17) |
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Hamlin, Hannibal, 1809-1891, Vice President, U.S.
Senator
(15) |
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Hartranft, John Frederick, 1820-1889, Politician,
soldier
(18) |
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Havemeyer, William Frederick, 1804-1874, Mayor of
N.Y.
(4) |
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Hawley, Hoseph Rosewell, 1826-1905, Editor, senator,
soldier
(6) |
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Hayes, William Shakespeare, 1837-1907, Ballad writer,
composer
(40) |
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Henderstone, A (?)
(25) |
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Higginson, Thomas Wentworth, 1823-1911, Reformer, soldier,
author
(19) |
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Hilton, Theodore (?)
(46) |
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Hoffman, John Thompson, 1828-1888, Mayor and Governor of
N.Y.
(16) |
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Holland, Josiah Gilbert, 1819-1881, Author
(35) |
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Hooker, Isabella Beecher, 1822-1907, Reformer, women's rights
advocate
(20) |
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Kellogg, Clara Louise, 1842-1916, Dramatic soprano
(23) |
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Kernan, Francis, 1816-1892, Lawyer, Dem. politician
(48) |
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Kilpatrick, Hugh Judson, 1836-1881, Soldier, diplomat
(?)
(17) |
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Locke, David Ross [Petroleum V. Nasby] 1833-1888, political
satirist
(19) |
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Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth, 1807-1882, poet
(11) |
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Longstreet, James, 1821-1882, Soldier
(48) |
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McCormick, Cyrus Hall, 1809-1884, Inventor,
manufacturer
(14) |
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McDowell, Irvin, 1818-1885, Soldier
(4) |
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Meade, George Gordon, 1815-1872, Soldier, victor at
Gettysburg
(15) |
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Meiggs, Henry, 1811-1877, Builder of South American
Railroads
(47) |
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Morgan, Edwin Denison, 1811-1883, Governor of New
York
(37) |
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Morgan, Midy
(21) |
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Mosby, John Singleton, 1833-1916, Confederate ranger
(28) |
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Mott, Lucretia Coffin, 1793-1880, Reformer, Preacher, Society of
Friends
(21) |
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Muller, D.H.
(26) |
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Nelson, Samuel, 1792-1873, Jurist
(15) |
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Nast, Thomas, 1840-1902, Cartoonist
(11) |
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O'Conor, Charles, 1804-1884, Lawyer
(17) |
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Parton, James, 1822-1891, Biographer
(39) |
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Phelps, Elizabeth Stuart [Ward, Elizabeth Stuart Phelps]
1844-1911
(21) |
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Pierrepont, Edwards, 1817-1892, Lawyer, Attorney
general
(33) |
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Pomeroy, Marcus Mills, 1833-1896, Newspaper ed. and
publisher
(17) |
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Porter, David Dixon, 1813-1891, Naval officer
(41) |
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Pringle, Benjamin, 1807-1887, Rep. of New York
(18) |
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Reid, Whitelaw, 1837-1912, Journalist diplomat
(30) |
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Richardson, Willaim Adams, 1821-1896, Secretary of the
treasury
(29) |
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Robertson, George, 1790-1874, Congressman from Kentucky
(?)
(10) |
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Saxe, John Godfrey, 1816-1887, Poet (?)
(46) |
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Schurz, Carl, 1829-1906, Minister to Spain
(13) |
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Seward, William Henry, 1801-1872, Statesman
(7, 12) |
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Seymour, Horatio, 1810-1886, Governor of N.Y.
(36) |
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Sherman, William Tecumseh, 1820-1891, Union general
(1) |
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Simpson, Matthew, 1811-1884, Bishop (?)
(25) |
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Sinclair, Samuel, Financier(?)
(46) |
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Smith, Gerrit, 1797-1874, Reformer
(9) |
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Stephens, Alexander Hamilton, 1812-1883, Confederate Vice
President
(13, 17) |
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Sumner, Charles, 1811-1874, U.S. Senator
(29, 36) |
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Talmage, Thomas DeWitt, 1832-1902, Clergyman, editor
(36) |
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Taylor, Miles, Rep. of Louisiana
(36) |
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Tren, T. (?)
(32) |
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Trumbull, Lyman, 1813-1896, Jurist, U.S. Senator
(13) |
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Vanderbilt, Cornelius (?)
(45) |
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Van Horn, Burt
(45) |
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Walker, Mary Edwards M.D. Women's rights advocate
(24) |
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Watts, H (?)
(5) |
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Weed, Thurlow, 1797-1882, Politician and journalist
(7) |
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Wells, Gideaon, 1802-1878, Secretary of the Navy
(26) |
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Williams, George Henry, 1820-1910, Attorney Gen. Senator from
Oregon
(3) |
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Wilson, Henry, 1812-1875, Vice president, U.S. Senator
Mass.
(7) |
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Winthrop, Robert C. 1809-1894, Senator from Mass.
(38) |
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Wise, Henry Alexander, 1806-1876, Gov. of Virginia
(34) |
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Woodhull, Victoria Caflin, 1838-1927, Reformer
(23) |
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Twenty-three other signatures could not be
identified. |
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