Papers of Charles Butler
Object ID:
MSS14522
Category:
Collections of Papers
Creator:
Charles Butler
Date:
between 1819 and 1929
Collection:
Papers of Charles Butler
Held at:
Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
Size:
3 linear feet
Description:
From the online finding aid: "Entrepreneur, lawyer, and philanthropist. Correspondence, travel diaries, legal, financial, and business papers, and maps, newspaper clippings, and other papers documenting Butler's involvement in New York politics and his interest in such matters as anti-Masonry, public debts in Illinois, Indiana, and Michigan, loans to farmers by the New York Life Insurance and Trust Company, legal cases (particularly the William Morgan kidnapping), and improvements in transportation, especially in roads, canals, and railroads."
Microfilm is available through interlibrary loan.
Microfilm is available through interlibrary loan.
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