Edward McPherson papers
Contributors: McCreary, Robert G., d. 1883; United States. Congress. House. Office of the Clerk
Language: eng
Number of pages: 18000
Subjects: Correspondence; Practice of law; United States. Congress. House; Frontier and pioneer life; Genealogy; Social life and customs; Political campaigns; Presbyterian Church; Real estate investment; Toll roads; United States; Politics and government; Republican Party (U.S. : 1854- ); Estate; Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877); Education; Tariff; History
Description: Correspondence, speeches, writings, notes, financial papers, family papers, family history, genealogical material, and other papers relating to McPherson's career in the House of Representatives as legislator and clerk of the House, and to Republican Party politics and campaigns nationally and in Pennsylvania during Reconstruction.  Includes papers relating to the McPherson family in central Pennsylvania; records (1856-1888) of the Office of the Clerk, U.S. House of Representatives; estate papers of Thaddeus Stevens and material collected for his biography; records of the Presbyterian Church, Marsh Creek, Pa.; and correspondence, law office files, and legal documents of Robert G. McCreary, of Gettysburg, Pa.  Subjects include history of Pennsylvania, especially Gettysburg and Adams Co., Pa.; education in frontier Pennsylvania; property investments in Pennsylvania; administration of the Gettysburg and Black's Tavern Turnpike Road; military services; and the tariff.

Family members represented include Janet McPherson, John Bayard McPherson, Robert McPherson, William McPherson, and Robert M'Pherson.

Correspondents include James Gillespie Blaine, Noah Brooks, William E. Chandler, George William Childs, James A. Garfield, and E.B. Washburne.
Notes: Open to research.

Purchase and gift, Donald P. McPherson, Donald P. McPherson, Jr., and John Bruce McPherson, 1907-1944.

Editor, statistician, and U.S. representative from Pennsylvania.

Collection material in English.

Finding aid available in the Library of Congress Manuscript Reading Room and at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms012042