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Summary Information
Charles C. Sholes Papers 1843-1867
- Sholes, Charles C. (Charles Clark), 1816-1867
Milwaukee Mss BS
0.2 c.f. (1 archives box)
UW-Milwaukee Libraries, Archives / Milwaukee Area Research Ctr. (Map)
Papers of Sholes, a pioneer Wisconsin newspaperman, politician, and businessman. Most of the collection consists of his letters to his wife Sarah. Some of the letters dating 1853-1855 discuss meetings with Horace Greeley and Phineas T. Barnum, impressions of William Lloyd Garrison as a speaker, and descriptions of New York museums, a spiritualist seance, and a reception given by Charles Durkee to celebrate his election to the U.S. Senate. A letter dated February 9, 1854, describes a performance of Uncle Tom's Cabin at the National Theatre in Washington, D.C. There are some references to Sholes' work in New York overseeing the printing and sale of railroad bonds, to his purchase of telegraph lines in Wisconsin, to his activities as speaker of the Wisconsin State Assembly, and to his brother Christopher, later famed as inventor of the typewriter. English
http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/wiarchives.uw-whs-mil000bs
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