Herman K. Crofoot collection of Francis Elias Spinner papers
Contributors: Crofoot, Herman K.; Spinner, John Peter, 1768-1848
Language: eng
Number of pages: 750
Subjects: Correspondence; Commerce; Politics and government; Public Finance; United States; Mohawk Valley Bank; United States. Office of the Treasurer; United States. Congress. House; Banks and banking
Description: Correspondence, scrapbooks, autographs, clippings, printed matter, photographs, and other papers chiefly concerning Spinner's service as U. S. representative from New York and U.S. treasurer.  Includes letterbook of letters written by Spinner while he was cashier of the Mohawk Valley Bank; a diary of his father, John Peter Spinner; and an Alexander Hamilton letter, 1792.  Other correspondents include John Allison, George S. Boutwell, Schuyler Colfax, Roscoe Conkling, Jay Cooke, James A. Garfield, Ulysses S. Grant, John Alexander Logan, Edwin D. Morgan, Justin S. Morrill, Whitelaw Reid, and William Windom.
Notes: Open to research.

Gift, Mrs. Herman K. Crofoot, 1970.

Merchant, banker, U.S. representative from New York, and U.S. treasurer.

Collection material in English.

Finding aid available in the Library of Congress Manuscript Division and at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms010005