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Summary Information
George H. Paul Papers 1834-1889
- Paul, George H., 1826-1890
Wis Mss CQ
3.8 c.f. (14 archives boxes)
Wisconsin Historical Society (Map)
Papers of George Howard Paul, a member of the University of Wisconsin Board of Regents, 1874-1890, and postmaster at Milwaukee during President Cleveland's first administration. The collection relates generally to the Democratic Party in Wisconsin, and to university affairs, especially the building program and the resignation of President John Bascom. Correspondence of Paul with his wife who remained for a time in Vermont, and with other relatives and friends there, contains information about the early history of Kenosha, Wisconsin, home life, and Vermont's Burlington Sentinel, of which Paul had been publisher. The collection touches upon the Barstow-Bashford controversy; state and local political figures and campaigns, especially those of 1852 and 1872; reimbursement of the builders of the State Capitol after the disaster of 1882; the Potter Law and injunction suits of the 1870's; National Civil Service Law in the 1880's; and investigation of the Milwaukee County Insane Asylum in the 1880's. Letters of Congressman Charles A. Eldredge concern relations between President Johnson and Congress in 1866. English
http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/wiarchives.uw-whs-wis000cq
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