Patronage, Political -- New York (State)
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
Dexter Wilder papers
Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924064918190]
Identifier: 516
Scope and content
Letters relating to local political patronage; a letter to Governor Fenton (April 27, 1865) stating that the people of the county would appreciate his veto of the bill to raise rates on the New York Central Railroad; letters between Wilder and his assistant assessors in Oneida, Lewis, and Herkimer Counties (N.Y.), and with Clinton L. Merriam, S. T. Miller, L. B. Richardson, and A. H. Laflin, regarding the appointment of John T. Walcott and other assessment problems in general.
Dates:
1836-1872.
Hugh White papers
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 610
Abstract
Correspondence, letters, diaries, account books, tax receipts, deeds, inventories, contracts, surveys, land records, maps, photographs, church records, genealogical data and other papers pertaining chiefly to White's involvement in land in northern New York, particularly the counties of Herkimer, Jefferson, Lewis, Oneida, Oswego, and St. Lawrence; material concerning the cement business at Chittenango and Greenkills, New York. Also, political papers (1840-1867), which include material on the...
Dates:
1750-1933.