Root, Elihu, 1845-1937.
Person
Found in 7 Collections and/or Records:
Albert T. Wilkinson collection
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 398
Scope and content
Letter books, account books, assessment rolls, and other documents relating to legal cases tried in Oneida County, New York, by firms of Davies and Johnson, and Davies, Johnson, and Coville. Letters of John G. Davies, Attorney General of the State of New York, containing letters to Robert M. LaFollette, Theodore Roosevelt, Elihu Root, Hamilton Fish, and Thomas C. Platt. Account books of Dr. Robert Frazier, 1852-1891. Account books, assessment rolls, relating to the village of Camden, New...
Dates:
1854-1908.
Bristow Adams papers
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 3205
Abstract
Consists of papers of Bristow Adams, journalist, professor, forester, and illustrator. Various materials document his journalistic career, including early work with a paper in D.C.; his editorial responsibilities on Stanford University publications; and his work as publications program director for the College of Agriculture at Cornell. From his student years are sketches of fur seals; college memorabilia; and many letters to his mother. Also, photographs from work for the US Forest Service;...
Dates:
1853 - 1970; Majority of material found within 1862 - 1957
Civil Service Reform Association records
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 549
Scope and content
Files of the New York State Civil Service Reform Association and the National Civil Service Reform League relate to the organization, development, history, and activities of these associations. They include correspondence, briefs, extracts, reports, clippings, pamphlets, and other material relating to appointments, examinations, investigations, prosecutions, and removals, finances and membership campaigns, Civil Service laws, assembly and senate bills, congressional activities, the views on...
Dates:
1880-1947.
Dorothy Whitney Straight Elmhirst papers
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 3725
Abstract
Includes both sides of Dorothy's correspondence with Willard D. Straight; letters from friends and relatives. Also materials on civic activities, correspondence on Willard Straight Hall, and correspondence on The New Republic and Asia magazines.
Dates:
1887 - 1978; Majority of material found within 1887 - 1926
Jacob Gould Schurman papers
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 3-4-6
Abstract
The Schurman papers consist of correspondence, addresses, photographs, testimonials, diplomas, certificates, newspaper clippings, printed material, and records of the New York Constitutional Convention (1915). The material listed covers Schurman's career as a teacher, college president, and diplomat; the majority of the papers involve his role in national and foreign affairs. His views on American imperialism are reflected in letters to President McKinley, David Starr Jordan, David J. Hill,...
Dates:
1867-1942, [1986].
Lena Lillian Hill Severence papers
Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924064947553]
Identifier: 2790
Scope and content
Letters to Lena Hill Severence, plus two pamphlets and a mimeographed item. Letters concern her efforts to secure pension legislation for teachers in New York State. Correspondents include New York State Normal School officials Myron T. Scudder, William J. Milne, and Isaac B. Poucher; university presidents Andrew D. White, Jacob Gould Schurman, James B. Angell, David Starr Jordan, and Charles W. Eliot; lawyer and politician Elihu Root; New York State legislator Jesse S. Phillips; and New...
Dates:
1903-1916.
State Department records
Collection — Microfilm reel 1 (negative)
Identifier: 2612
Scope and content
Correspondence, reports, cables in cipher, and some articles concerning U.S. administration of and aims in the Philippines, conduct of the war against Filipino insurgents, and possible future independence of the Philippines. Much of the correspondence is between Secretary of State John Hay and Jacob Gould Schurman, President of the Commission. Other correspondents include J. E. Sawyer, Thomas W. Cridler, J. H. McGowan, A. E. Buck, Seretary of the Commission John R. MacArthur, Acting...
Dates:
1899-1900.
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