Augustus Loring Richards papers
Scope and content
Correspondence, drafts of speeches, articles, election studies, deeds, legal papers, clippings, and memorabilia pertaining to Richards' interest in national and international politics, particularly Roosevelt's "New Deal," and "court-packing" plan; also concerns the loyalty of German-Americans in New York State, postwar relations with the Soviet Union, Henry Wallace, Harry Truman, and American political parties. Other papers concern the management of farms in Steuben, New York, gifts of land to the state, local history, genealogy, the life of Baron von Steuben, the activities of Welsh families in Oneida County, and Richards' handling of the Felsenheld case in West Virginia. Also concerns Frank E. Gannett, John Foster Dulles, the Dairy Farmers' Union and the Dairymen's League.
Dates
- 1872-1951.
Creator
Biographical / Historical
Lawyer and dairy farmer.
Extent
1.8 cubic feet.
1 volumes.
Language of Materials
English
- Actions and defenses -- West Virginia.
- Agriculture -- New York (State) -- Steuben.
- Dairy Farmers' Union
- Dairymen's League
- Dulles, John Foster, 1888-1959.
- Farm management -- New York (State) -- Steuben.
- Gannett, Frank E. (Frank Ernest), 1876-1957.
- German-Americans -- New York (State)
- International relations.
- New Deal, 1933-1939.
- Oneida County (N.Y.) -- Genealogy.
- Political parties -- United States.
- Political science -- New York (State)
- Political science -- United States.
- Politics, Practical -- New York (State)
- Politics, Practical -- United States.
- Roosevelt, Franklin D. (Franklin Delano), 1882-1945
- Soviet Union -- Foreign relations.
- Steuben (N.Y.) -- History, Local.
- Steuben, Friedrich Wilhelm Ludolf Gerhard Augustin, Baron von, 1730-1794.
- Truman, Harry, 1884-1972.
- United States. Supreme Court
- Wallace, Henry A. (Henry Agard), 1888-1965.
- Welsh -- New York (State) -- Oneida County.
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Repository Details
Part of the Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections Repository
2B Carl A. Kroch Library
Cornell University
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