Draper, Lyman Copeland, 1815-1891
Person
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
Charles James Faulkner (1806-1884) Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1681
Overview
Correspondence of Charles J. Faulkner (1806-1884), who was a Martinsburg attorney, Virginia legislator, member of Congress, and ambassador to France during the James Buchanan administration. Subjects include national and Virginia-West Virginia politics, 1827-1876, and foreign affairs, 1868-1876. Other subjects include the French Colonization Society, the slave controversy, Maryland-Virginia boundary dispute, Virginia Revolutionary debt claims, disposal of the Harpers Ferry Armory, Chesapeake...
Dates:
1786-1878
Lyman C. Draper, Antiquarian, Manuscripts
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 3045
Overview
The interviews, correspondence, notes and reports of a Wisconsin based, New York born antiquarian and early researcher of frontier history. Lyman C. Draper's manuscripts were willed to the Wisconsin State Historical Society where he had been its corresponding secretary and instrumental in its development. Microfilm was produced by the society of his papers and made available for purchase to libraries because of their significance for studying the Eastern frontier and its pioneers. Draper had...
Dates:
ca. 1740-1815
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- African-Americans. SEE ALSO Coal miners - African Americans. 1
- Canals 1
- Election of 1840. 1
- Election of 1860. 1
- Election of 1876. 1
- Frontier and pioneer life 1
- Indians of North America 1
- Kentucky 1
- Martinsburg (W. Va.) 1
- Naturalization -- United States 1
- Nullification (States' rights) 1
- Ohio River and Valley. 1
- Railroads 1
- Revolutionary War. 1
- Shenandoah River Valley (Va. and W. Va.) 1
- Slaves and slavery. 1
- Tennessee 1
- Transportation 1
- United States -- History -- French and Indian War, 1754-1763 1
- United States -- History -- War of 1812 1
- Women -- United States -- History 1 + ∧ less
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