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Box 1

 Container

Contains 40 Results:

A.I. Boreman - Jacob Boreman Letters (cont.); Autograph letter signed. From A.I. Boreman, Washington, to Jacob Boreman, [Kansas City, Missouri]. Advises Jacob not to count on an early appointment; expects he will receive the first available, but cannot tell when that will be; sends copies of Congressional Globes for Jacob's information, 31 May 1872

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 3
Dates: 31 May 1872
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center / Arthur I. Boreman (1823-1896) Papers / Series 1. Correspondence, Box 1, Folders 1-4

A.I. Boreman - Jacob Boreman Letters (cont.); Autograph letter signed. From A.I. Boreman, Parkersburg, WV, to Jacob Boreman, [Kansas City, Missouri]. Discusses financial affairs of their brother Thomas; A. I. mentions he is checking on the Colorado judgeship for Jacob; notes Republican victory in West Virginia for Grant and Wilson; wonders whether Democratic Party is in as great a disarray as seems - if so the Republicans may hold the state, but fears the Democrats' "powers of cohesion and recuperation" may win out; regrets the Republicans did not carry Missouri; fears Frank Blair will be reelected to the Senate from Missouri; wonders whether they might do something to prevent that, but reconsiders that at least Blair will only damage his own party as a Senator and is really better in that respect than other Democrats might be, 20 November 1872

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 3
Dates: 20 November 1872
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center / Arthur I. Boreman (1823-1896) Papers / Series 1. Correspondence, Box 1, Folders 1-4

A.I. Boreman - Jacob Boreman Letters (cont.); Autograph letter signed. From A.I. Boreman, Parkersburg, WV, to Jacob Boreman, [no location]. Mentions his hard work in court this term; discusses the work Jacob has been doing on their genealogy; mentions his hope that he may write some family history; asks Jacob about a conflict over the seating of delegates at Utah's constitutional convention; is concerned about which party, Republican or Democrat, or even Populist of Silver men, will represent Utah in the Senate; hopes it will fall to the Republicans, but guesses the Democrats expect to gain control or the Democratic U.S. Congress would not have admitted the state; gives his opinion of Stephen B. Elkins, rating him a "good and useful citizen" after describing the business activities of Elkins in West Virginia; expresses concern that the Republicans may lose control of West Virginia; notes the importance the silver question will have in the 1896 Presidential campaign, April 1895

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 3
Dates: April 1895
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center / Arthur I. Boreman (1823-1896) Papers / Series 1. Correspondence, Box 1, Folders 1-4

A.I. Boreman - Other Correspondence (4 items); Autograph letter signed. From A.I. Boreman, Richmond, to George W. Summers, [no location]. Letter marked "private & confidential"; expresses Boreman's deep concern about the crisis looming in the country at the time; mentions the upcoming Virginia state convention at which the secession question will be considered; asks Summers to become a candidate for delegate to the convention; Boreman expresses his fear that if the U.S. Government fails, the best government in the world will have failed and the only chance for real freedom will be gone; the future will be "impenetrable gloom", 15 January 1861

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 4
Dates: 15 January 1861
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center / Arthur I. Boreman (1823-1896) Papers / Series 1. Correspondence, Box 1, Folders 1-4

A.I. Boreman - Other Correspondence (cont.); Autograph letter signed. From William P. Rucker, Marietta, Ohio, to Governor A.I. Boreman, [Wheeling]. Thanks Boreman for getting him out of rebel prison, where he had been taken after a raid; offers his services to lead a raid to disrupt rebel railroads and telegraph facilities in southwestern Virginia, release Union prisoners in Lynchburg and Danville, and destroy Confederate specie and supplies stored there; wants sufficient protection for himself and the men he would need and a commission with which to provide for his family; asks Governor Boreman's influence with military planners in Washington in getting his plan accepted, 27 November 1863

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 4
Dates: 27 November 1863
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center / Arthur I. Boreman (1823-1896) Papers / Series 1. Correspondence, Box 1, Folders 1-4

A.I. Boreman - Other Correspondence (cont.); Autograph letter signed. From three Convention Committee members, Wheeling, WV, to Honorable A.I. Boreman, Wheeling, WV. Officially informs Boreman that he has been nominated by the convention for the office of Governor of West Virginia, 6 August 1864

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 4
Dates: 6 August 1864
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center / Arthur I. Boreman (1823-1896) Papers / Series 1. Correspondence, Box 1, Folders 1-4

A.I. Boreman - Other Correspondence (cont.); Autograph letter signed. From R.G. Bass, Wheeling, to Colonel H.W. Crothers, Wellsburg, WV. Regarding an outstanding order involving Governor Boreman, 16 June 1869

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 4
Dates: 16 June 1869
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center / Arthur I. Boreman (1823-1896) Papers / Series 1. Correspondence, Box 1, Folders 1-4

A.I. Boreman - Miscellaneous Papers (contains Boreman's commission as Judge of the 5th Judicial Circuit of West Virginia with original envelope [1888], and a manuscript copy of Boreman's address at a memorial for President U.S. Grant [1885]; 3 items), 1885-1888

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 5
Dates: 1885-1888
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center / Arthur I. Boreman (1823-1896) Papers / Series 2. Papers, Box 1, Folders 5-7

A.I. Boreman - Personal Business and Financial Papers (includes a bank book, checks, invoices, a deed, a promissory note to Boreman from J.H. Diss Debar [5 March 1869], and other items; 25 items), 1869-1888

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 6
Dates: 1869-1888
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center / Arthur I. Boreman (1823-1896) Papers / Series 2. Papers, Box 1, Folders 5-7

Ku Klux Klan Letter and Clippings (includes a photostat of a letter from the Nicholas County, West Virginia, Ku Klux Klan, threatening Governor Boreman's life if he refuses to remove the present Board of Voter Registration for that county, which was denying the franchise to former Rebels; and copies of several clippings regarding Ku Klux Klan threats to other local public figures; 2 items; missing), 1868

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 7
Dates: 1868
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center / Arthur I. Boreman (1823-1896) Papers / Series 2. Papers, Box 1, Folders 5-7