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MacVeagh family papers

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Main Author:	MacVeagh family (Creator)
Collection:	MacVeagh Family Papers
Collection Number:	1616
Format:	Manuscript
Language:	English
Subjects and Genres:	Antebellum Politics International Law and Arbitration > 19th century. International Politics > 19th Century The World Court at The Hague
Online Access:	Link to finding aid
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Physical Description:	11.0 Linear feet 15 boxes, 39 volumes, 4 flat files
Summary:	Wayne MacVeagh was a lawyer, a Civil War Captain, and both an active Republican and Democrat. (MacVeagh switched to the Democratic Party in 1892.) He also served as minister to Turkey, 1870-1871, as Attorney General of the United States under Garfield, 1881, and held other state and national offices. Correspondence, 1850-1917, covering MacVeagh's personal affairs and public life. Correspondents include: MacVeagh's father-in-law, Simon Cameron, Joseph J. Lewis, Franklin MacVeagh, and John J. Pinkerton. Also letters from: Andrew G. Curtin, Charles Francis Adams, Brooks Adams, Henry Brooks Adams, and Andrew D. White. Major national political figures wrote MacVeagh including: William Jennings Bryan, Rutherford B. Hayes, Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and Woodrow Wilson. There is a series of letters to Mrs. Cameron during MacVeagh's service in Turkey. There are personal letterpress books, 1876-1891, mostly concerned with MacVeagh's private financial dealings, including the Cameron estate; legal letterpress books, 1874,1876; and fee books, 1856-1894; also typescript narrative on the history of the Panama Canal, 1904; and typescript "William Cromwell, Diplomat and Revolutionist" by Earl Harding, 1910. There are miscellaneous papers of other MacVeagh family members including: Margaret (Mrs. Simon) Cameron letters, 1870-1871, to her daughter Virginia C. MacVeagh; Mrs. Benjamin Warder letters, 1912, while living in Buenos Aires; and Mrs. Warder letters, 1913, 1916.

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11.0 Linear feet 15 boxes, 39 volumes, 4 flat files

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Wayne MacVeagh was a lawyer, a Civil War Captain, and both an active Republican and Democrat. (MacVeagh switched to the Democratic Party in 1892.) He also served as minister to Turkey, 1870-1871, as Attorney General of the United States under Garfield, 1881, and held other state and national offices. Correspondence, 1850-1917, covering MacVeagh's personal affairs and public life. Correspondents include: MacVeagh's father-in-law, Simon Cameron, Joseph J. Lewis, Franklin MacVeagh, and John J. Pinkerton. Also letters from: Andrew G. Curtin, Charles Francis Adams, Brooks Adams, Henry Brooks Adams, and Andrew D. White. Major national political figures wrote MacVeagh including: William Jennings Bryan, Rutherford B. Hayes, Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and Woodrow Wilson. There is a series of letters to Mrs. Cameron during MacVeagh's service in Turkey. There are personal letterpress books, 1876-1891, mostly concerned with MacVeagh's private financial dealings, including the Cameron estate; legal letterpress books, 1874,1876; and fee books, 1856-1894; also typescript narrative on the history of the Panama Canal, 1904; and typescript "William Cromwell, Diplomat and Revolutionist" by Earl Harding, 1910. There are miscellaneous papers of other MacVeagh family members including: Margaret (Mrs. Simon) Cameron letters, 1870-1871, to her daughter Virginia C. MacVeagh; Mrs. Benjamin Warder letters, 1912, while living in Buenos Aires; and Mrs. Warder letters, 1913, 1916.

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