Summary Information

Title: George B. Smith Papers
Inclusive Dates: 1837-1879

Creator:

• Smith, George B., 1823-1879

Call Number: Wis Mss DW

Quantity: 4.4 c.f. (19 archives boxes)

Repository:

Wisconsin Historical Society, Division of Library, Archives, and Museum Collections

Archival Locations:

Wisconsin Historical Society (Map)

COLLECTION MAY BE STORED OFF-SITE: see catalog entry to request materials and for additional information.

Abstract:

Papers of George B. Smith, a Madison, Wisconsin, attorney, consisting of correspondence, letter books, diaries, and legal papers relating to Smith's legal practice, his activities as counsel for various Wisconsin railroad companies after 1866, and Wisconsin politics beginning about 1850. The correspondence after 1867 includes numerous letters and telegrams from railroad officials and attorneys in Wisconsin, New York, and other eastern cities. This rather technical material has to do with legal cases, their preparation, development, progress, and methods of presentation and argument, and with claims against the railroad companies. Other letters concern state Democratic affairs in general, Smith's candidacy for the United State Senate in 1869, and the national election of 1876 including his trip to Louisiana as a member of the committee to investigate vote fraud.

Language: English

URL to cite for this finding aid: http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/wiarchives.uw-whs-wis000dw

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