Finding Aid for the 19th Century U. S. Representatives from Tennessee Collection, 1825 December 27-1896 May 6
MS-2304University of Tennessee Special Collections Library, Knoxville, TN
Encoded by: Elizabeth Dunham, June 29, 2006.
Summary Information
19th Century U. S. Representatives from Tennessee Collection
Date/Date Range : 1825 December 27-1896 May 6
0.1 linear feet
Abstract: This collection contains letters of 19th century members of the House of Representatives from Tennessee.
MS-2304
University of Tennessee Special Collections Library, Knoxville, TN
Access and Use
The Special Collections Library purchased this collection in March of 2004.
Collection is open for research.
The copyright interests in this collection remain with the creator. For more information, contact the Special Collections Library.
[Identification of Item], 19th Century U. S. Representatives from Tennessee Collection, MS-2304. University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Special Collections Library.
Arrangement
Collection consists of a single folder.
Biography / History
Robert Allen was born in 1788. After fighting in the War of 1812, he served in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1819-27. He retired to Carthage, Tennessee, where he died, in 1844.
Luke Lea was born in North Carolina in 1783 and moved to Tennessee with his family. He served in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1833-37, and was then elected secretary of State in Tennessee (1837-39). He died in 1851 in Kansas, serving as an Indian Agent at Fort Leavenworth.
Cave Johnson was born in Tennessee in 1793. After multiple terms in the U.S. House of Representatives (1829-37, 1839-45), he was also the Postmaster General (1845-49) and president of the Bank of Tennessee (1854-60). He died in 1866.
Meredith P. Gentry was born in 1809. He served in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1839-63, and in the First and Second Confederate Congresses in 1862-3. He died in 1866.
Augustus H. Pettibone was born in Ohio in 1835. In addition to practicing law, he also fought in the Civil War. He was the Attorney General for the first judicial circuit in Tennessee (1869-70), a representative in the U.S. House of Representatives (1881-87), and a representative in the Tennessee House of Representatives (1896-98). He died in Nashville in 1918.
Walter P. Brownlow was born in 1851. He was a Representative from 1896 until the time of his death in 1910.
Collection Scope and Content Note
This collection contains letters of 19th century members of the House of Representatives from Tennessee. Although the letters do not pertain to politics (with the exception of the Walter P. Brownlow letter), they provide autographs of historical political figures.
Subject Terms
- United States -- Politics and government -- 19th century.
- United States. Congress. House.
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A brief note written and signed by Robert Allen, 1825 December 27 Scope Note: Transcription of Letter:
House of Reps
Decem 27th 1825
Sir
Enclosed you have the declaration of [name erased] asking to be reinstated on the (function?) list on early attention in schedule.
Your Obt Servt,
Robert Allen
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Letter from Luke Lea to Capt. John A. Rodgers, 1832 March 7 Scope Note: Transcription of Letter:
Bank of the State of Tennessee
Knoxville March 7th, 1832
Dear Sir,
Your letter of the 1st instant came duly to hand, and would have received earlier attention had I been in better health. On the 4th March 1825, the Principal Bank obtained a Judgment against you in Hawkins County for $3,249-of this judgt. There has been paid into Bank, on account of Principal and interest the sum of $1,595 = towit, $150:= by Hugh Brown Esq. on the 7th of May 1825 and $1,445:= by John A. McKinney Esq. on the 4th of June 1830-at what time the payment was made to Mr. McKinney I know now, but his receipt will show. I do not know at what time the judgment was obtained against you by the Branch Bank at Jonesborough, nor do I know the exact amount of the Judgment but this information you can get by applying at the Clerks Office. On the 15th of October 1828, you paid to the Principal Bank on account of the Jonesborough Judgment & interest the sum of $2, 475:=, towit, $1,875:= in Jonesborough Branch Stock and $600:= the amount of dividends due you up to the 30th June1828, for which sum you have my receipt. The balance of the Judgmt. With interest are yet due. The amount of Stock owned by you was $2,500:= $1,875:= of which you applied as before stated, towards the payment of the debt due to the Jonesborough Branch-the balance say $625:= still stands in your name. The amount due you for dividends, up to the 31 December 1831, inclusive is $159.38 which you can drain and apply to the payment of the Jonesborough debt whever [sic] you please.
I am very respectfully your obt. Servant
Luke Lea banker
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Letter signed by Cave Johnson, undated Scope Note: Transcription of Letter:
Dear Sir,
[??] yours of the 3rd inst.-if at my residence [sic] in Clarksville I could perhaps furnish you with the autograph of Pres. Polk not have I here the autographs of any of his cabinet.
I am respectfully yr obt servt,
C Johnson
Geo. H. Gordon by Brighton [??]
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Signature of Meredith P. Gentry, circa 1860
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Letter from Augustus Pettibone to John G. King on House of Representatives stationary, 1881 June 11 Scope Note: Transcription of Letter:
June 11, 1881
John G. King, Esq
Dear Friend:
Yours to (hand?). You can have the [??] furnished but not before Sept or Oct. I leave to night for home, and will send you a pamphlet, giving you full instructions & and put in Communication with the Authorities.
Glad to know you are taking hold of this matter
Your Friend,
A.H. Pettibone
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Letter from Walter P. Brownlow to Paul, 1896 May 6 Scope Note: Transcription of Letter:
Jonesboro Tenn
May 6, 1896
In Confidence
My dear Paul,
Your letter at hand. Will wonders never cease. Tillman told me positively that he could not be a candidate & that he could not [??] the race.
He wrote me a few days ago that he would like to be Chairman of your County & asked me to write to our friend. I wrote Wadsworth to consult you all, but I wrote Tillman & could not dictate to my friends, but that he could be satisfaction [sic] to me, & advised him to consult you all. Since then I have heard nothing. It is important to me that the Chairman of your County be a friend of mine, and I would like for the delegates from your County to Johnson City to be of my friends. Now about Schwab. I would like to see him elected. We have 2 Candidates from Cocke Co., 2 from Hamblin, 4 from Hawkins, 2 from Greene Co., 1 from Washington & one from Center. These I know of. There may be more. Each one pushing one to help him for help already given one. It places me in a [??] of a fix. As you have been, passing through a great deal of similar trouble. I [know?] them your sympathy.
All I can say to you is to act upon your best Judgments & then let the ford help us out.
Your friend,
W. P. Brownlow
PS I wont go to your County while it is on fire . B
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