Wheeler H. Peckham family papers
Contributors: Peckham, Rufus W., 1809-1873; Peckham, Rufus Wheeler, 1838-1909
Language: eng
Number of pages: 800
Subjects: Politics and government; New York (State). Supreme Court; United States. Supreme Court; United States; Courts; New York (State)
Description: Chiefly letters to Wheeler H. Peckham from Rufus W. Peckham and  Rufus Wheeler Peckham, Jr., relating to family, personal, and business matters, the travels of Rufus W. Peckham, and political affairs.
Notes: Open to research.

Gift, Rufus Wheeler Peckham, III, 1955.

Family members represented include Rufus W. (Wheeler) Peckham, lawyer, U.S. congressman from N.Y., and judge of the N.Y. Court of Appeals; and his sons:  Wheeler H. (Hazard) Peckham, lawyer; and Rufus Wheeler Peckham, associate justice of the N.Y. Supreme Court and of the U.S. Supreme Court.

Collection material in English.

Finding aid available in the Library of Congress Manuscript Division and at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms007061