Title: Luman Hamlin Weller Papers
Inclusive Dates: 1828-1912

Creator:

• Weller, Luman Hamlin, 1833-1914

Call Number: Iowa Mss A

Quantity: 5.5 c.f. (11 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:

Correspondence of Luman Weller, a Nashua, Iowa, Greenbacker and Populist politician and member of Congress, 1883-1885; relating to the Iowa activities of numerous farm and labor groups and political parties, including the Iowa Farmer's Alliance, People's Party, Populist Party, and the Knights of Labor.

Language: English

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The collection contains information on campaigns, party finances, newspapers and literature, conventions, speakers, organizations, and personal affairs. Papers from his Congressional term discuss currency questions, pension claims, vote fraud, and appointments. Also included is correspondence on the career of James B. Weaver, Greenback-Labor presidential candidate in 1892, and exchanges with prominent Populist Ignatius Donnelly and with Robert Schilling of Milwaukee.

Other correspondents include E.W. Clark of Postville, Iowa; W.R. Mead of Creco, Iowa; and L.G. Kinne of the Iowa Democratic State Central Committee; S.L. Douglas of the Industrial Union; attorney Henry Wilcox of Des Moines, Iowa; and B.F. Clayton, J.H. McDowell, and J.H. Sanders in the 1890s mentioning the Farmer's Alliance.

Box   1	1824-1869
Box   2	1870-1880
Box   3	1881-1882 March 10
Box   4	1882 March 11-September
Box   5	1882 October-1883
Box   6	1884 January-June
Box   7	1884 July-1885 April
Box   8	1885 May-1887
Box   9	1888-1896
Box   10	1897-1912
Box   11	, Undated and Miscellany