Horace H. Lurton papers
Language: eng
Number of pages: 250
Subjects: Correspondence; Prisoners and prisons; Bridgeford & Co; University of Chicago (1857-1886); United States. Supreme Court; United States; Johnson Island Prison; Universities and colleges; History
Description: Correspondence and telegrams, some written while Lurton was attending the University of Chicago and while he was a Confederate prisoner in Camp Chase, Ohio, and at Johnson Island Prison during the Civil War.  Also includes the draft of an address and printed matter.  Correspondents include A.W.B. Allen, of Bridgeford & Co., Louisville, Ky., William R. Day, John Marshall Harlan, Joseph Rucker Lamar, Whitelaw Reid, Theodore Roosevelt, Elihu Root, William H. Taft, and Edward Douglass White.
Notes: Open to research.

Gift, Horace H. Lurton, III, 1957.

Associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court.

Collection material in English.

Finding aid available in the Library of Congress Manuscript Reading Room and at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms008042