Michigan

1900 · 36643 — 1900. 5-1/4" x 7-3/4". Approx. 160 pp. Autograph album with red gilt decorated covers worn boards detached but present spine missing. Pages have been removed and the remaining pages are mostly loosened. Signatures are written both directly on the book's pages and also on separate pieces of paper tipped in. Some toning and staining of the occasional page. While the binding is in in fair condition the pages that remain are Good to Very Good.<br/><br/>Autographs include in part: <br/> "Auburn Nov. 14 1860 Dear Sir I comply very cheerfully with the request contain in your courteous note and remain Respectfully your obednt servant William H. Seward" U.S. Secretary of State from 1861 to 1869 Governor of New York and U.S. Senator from New York.<br/> "Washington 11 Feb 1861 Sir I have the pleasure of complying with your request. Respectfully yours John A. Dix". Secretary of the U.S. Treasury.<br/> "Yours truly Henry W. Longfellow" Famous poet and author of "Paul Revere's Ride".<br/> "Washington Dec. 16 1860/ Mr. T.A. Ashley/ Dear Sir Your letter of Dec. 10 is recd. Respectfully Preston King." Early free soil politician.<br/> "Dear Sir Faithfully Yours Charles Sumner" Massachusetts senator and Radical Republican.<br/> "Very truly yours Schuyler Colfax member from Indiana" <br/> "Washington Feb. 25 1861 to F.A. Ashley Esq. Dear Sir Yours of the 21st received and I hereby comply with your request Respectfully yours & c. Owen Lovejoy/ F.A. Ashley Esq. Detroit Mich." U.S. Representative from Illinois conductor on the Underground Railroad brother of Elijah Lovejoy friend of Abraham Lincoln.<br/> "Washington D.C. August 24 1890 J.B.Cheadle Frankfort Indiana/ Represented the 9th Indiana District in the 50th & 51st Congresses. Elected in 1886 by 3416 majority and in 1888 by 4450 majority."<br/> "Very truly your friend W.H. Coffron North Baruch Mich. Washington D.C. 11/30/'84" with cartoon face. Michigan physician; graduate treasurer secretary and professor of Georgetown University.<br/> "With best wishes J. N. Gillette Governor of California Sept. 9th 1909". <br/> "House of Representatives Washington Feb. 21st 1861/ G.A. Ashley Esq. Detroit Mich. Sir Yours of the 19th came to hand this evening. Very respectfully your obedt. Servant Cyrus Aldrich" Minnesota;<br/> "Yours truly Jas. Harlan" Early Free Soil politician federal judge U.S. Cabinet Secretary of the Department of the Interior under President Johnson;<br/> "Mason W. Tappan Ho. Reps. Washington 2/14/1861 Sir I am making a hand somewhere; and I prefer to make it before I start to run at all" New Hampshire<br/> "I'll try it and let you know Sam Gordon Miles City Aug. 17 83" New York native later settled in Montana where he established the Yellowstone Journal.<br/> "Albany April 10 1861 Dear Sir If you think my humble name written with my own hand will add anything to the value of your collection it gives me pleasure to make this small contribution. Yours with respect Ira Harris/ To F.A. Ashley Esq." New York senator and friend of Abraham Lincoln. <br/> "My Dear Bill Yours Truly J. Guthrie Asst. U.S. Inspector Hulls San Francisco CA Eureka Ca. March 2 1905"<br/> H. Winter Davis "James R. Doolittle "Louis Kerrsft Rear Admiral U.S. Navy 2nd March 1905"; "Yours very truly/ Alex. W. Buel"Michigan; B.F. Magee M.C. Michigan; "Truly Yours John T. Shurtleff Sept. 25 1909"<br/>H.P. Baldwin'; A.A. Burnham CT; Chas. A. Mack Jr.; Kinsley S. Bingham MI; Frank Higham Detroit M.; R.E. Trowbridge MI; W.K. Sebastian AR; John A. Gilmer NC a member of the Confederate Congress; JesseD. Bright IN owned plantation in KY with slaves and was the only person from a Northern State expelled from the Senate for his Confederate sympathies; J. Morrison Harris MD; Wm. Bigler PA 12th governor of PA ; John Cochrane NY; Zachariah Chandler Michigan leading abolitionist in Congress; M.S. Latham MI; Alex. W. Buell MI; John J. Perry Oxford Maine; Kit Adams; Emerson Etheridge TN; Edgar Cowan U.S.S. PA; Jno Goode PA; Miss T.C. Ashley; Loren C. Caddell; USMP Maj. Samuel Ruggles prominent New Yorker ; W.J. Thorne M; Alfred Ely; Katie Lackey; "Eureka July 23 1908 Hit the bear hard! Charles Ausyl Clarke U.S. Navy with much affection for Mr. Bell"; "Washington City D.C. Feby. 14 1861/ I am Truly Yours J. Markley" Ohio; Milton S. Davis Lieut. U.S.S.; C. Case IN; Harry C. Frankenfield DC 11/30/84; W.B. Holland; Sedley Chaplin supt. Construction Supervising Architects Office Treasury Deptt. Sept. 21 1909: Edward J Morris PA; William Pennington NJ; Neal Delano; Miriam F. Richmond; "A of Michigan" followed by signatures of Frank Johnson Charles B. Wood Gore Porter R.E. Frazer Aaron C. Jewett George Kingsley James A. Brown Dept. of Medicine; "Edwin Z. Pritchett 1st Lieut. 1st Field Artillery June 24 1909"; Walter S. Sturgill; Edgar H. Towar Detroit; 4/30/1861; B. Stanton Ohio; J Stout Oregon; H.H. Munds 1883 Billings MT; Senator from California R.L. Edwards; R.F. Woolfield and WH. Coory Montana; and others. unknown books